Ginger King is a cosmetic chemist with over two decades of experience in every aspect of beauty. She has her own beauty consulting company and launched FanLoveBeauty as a Case Study and a way to create the best lip balm for her mentor Daymond John. Read on to find out about her journey and brand:
Can you tell us a bit about yourself, and why you started FanLoveBeauty?
I am a cosmetic chemist with over two decades of experience in every aspect of beauty. I own Grace Kingdom Beauty, a consulting company that specializes in helping people to start their own beauty brand from concept to launch. I started FanLoveBeauty for two reasons:
- It started as a thank-you to my celebrity crush and mentor Daymond John as I wanted to make the very best lip balm for him since he does keynote speaking 230 days out of a year.
- People ask me that you specialize from concept to launch of a beauty brand, what happens after launch, can you help me? I want to use FanLoveBeauty as a case study.
Can you tell us a bit more about your experience working at Estee Lauder and how that helped you launch your own beauty company?ย
I worked with many beauty brands in different capacities. With Estee Lauder, I was the beauty advisor at the counter. I had a daytime job working for Dole Foods as a chemist but my real love is makeup so I moonlighted at nights and weekends. From that aspect, it helped me to understand how consumers react so when I develop products, I always have consumer benefits in mind.
What makes FanLoveBeauty special?ย
Unlike a celebrity who comes out with their own brands and people buy it regardless if it’s the right skin or hair type, FanLoveBeauty is a reverse-celebrity vegan beauty brand where we develop products for people we have a “celebrity-crush” on. The celebrity does not have to be in Hollywood as long as they inspire, educate, or entertain society, they deserve good beauty products to use. Oftentimes these people are entrepreneurs who are busy focusing on crushing their goals so they need a trust-worthy product to take care of their appearance. FanLoveBeauty also enlists you to tell us #WhoDoYouLove and we may be doing joint product development for your celebrity crush!
Why Stage Balm for the lips?ย
This was a dedication to Daymond John as he always says health should be the number one goal as a healthy person can have a thousand dreams. Lip products could be ingested so the choice of ingredients is critical. Stage Balm for lips can be used for everyone but is specially designed for speakers because it not only instantly hydrates the lips with superfoods like flaxseed, coconut, and avocado but also moisturized with clinical levels of sea asparagus known to boost hydration by 6000% over time. Additionally, every ingredient used has a meaning behind it. For example, the use of almond butter for its natural mandelic acid content to promote exfoliation; the use of mango to symbolize mood elevation as it’s a fruit to treat depression that ties to our social cause to donate part of the proceeds to suicide prevention foundation. . Use of peppermint for the instant awakening effect to empower confidence. Everything about this lip balm is the essence of what I learned from Daymond from a decade of on-screen of Shark Tank to off-screen. He advocates for saving the bees so we choose to be vegan and not use beeswax as seen in 90% of natural lip balm. We use other butter and oils instead.
What does it mean to be a #beautyboss?
A beauty boss is someone who has the mission to make this world a better place through beauty via empowerment of confidence so everyone can be more confident about who they are.
