Beautyblender Founder, Rea Ann Silva, Bootstrapped Her Way to Selling 50 Million+ Units

BeautyBlender founder, Rea Ann Silva, is on Female Founder World with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Everything Rea Ann Silva knows about business, she taught herself—and uh she knows a lot: Rea Ann's sold more than 50 million units of her invention, BeautyBlender! She doesn’t have an MBA, but what she does have is 100% ownership of a big beauty business that she grew without any investors. And while we couldn’t get revenue numbers, know this: BeautyBlender is stocked in Sephora, Ulta, Nordstrom, Net-a-porter,  Revolve, Blue Mercury and dozens of other retailers; has more than 3 million Instagram followers; and has been featured in every major beauty publication you could think of. Rea Ann started the business in 2003 while working as a celebrity makeup artist and raising her daughter as a single mom. Over the next two decades she built something truly mind blowing. Tune into this episode of the Female Founder World podcast to learn more.  -- Female Founder World is the place to meet your business besties online and IRL! Get on the list for our next event at femalefounderworld.com  -- Links Become a Business Bestie subscriber: femalefounderworld.com/subscriber Get our quick case studies on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@jasgarnsworthy Get the Female Founder World newsletter https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Buy a BeautyBlender (or just browse): beautyblender.com Follow Rea Ann on Instagram: @reaannsilva Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices