Rea Ann Silva
21 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2022 by Rea Ann Silva · across every show →
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Dec 19, 2022 neutral
Beautyblender's patent was blocked by an existing medical ear cleaner patent
“There was a patent owned by a company that, and this is the craziest thing, and this is why I fought so long and hard about it, but There was a medical ear cleaner that was like, if you can envision, like, almost like a Q-tip, only bigger. It was like, it had …”
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Silva and her early partner each invested $75,000 to launch Beautyblender
“In the beginning, when I first decided that this should, you know, I wanted to try to make this a business, I had invited another makeup artist to work with me. I eventually bought her out but we had both, I think we both invested, like, 75,000 dollars.”
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Noisy airbrush compressors drove Silva to invent the Beautyblender for TV sets
“So although airbrushing was a wonderful technique to make makeup look natural in high definition, it's not a practical set tool. So in the morning in my trailer on the back lot of Paramount, I can be Spraying people in my trailer, my music is on, we're chit-ch…”
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Beautyblender's iconic hot pink began as color-coding for manufacturer prototypes
“And every time that a new formulation was sent to me, they would dye it a certain color so that I wouldn't confuse them. So when we talked, they could say, hey, remember the blue one, remember the green one, remember the yellow one, remember the purple one. An…”
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Silva initially thought Beautyblender was too complicated for mainstream consumers
“I dared to dream on occasion, like, wow, what if this could be a consumer product, but way too complicated for them to understand. Like, it's so far in makeup artistry, I don't think anybody would, you know, why would they trade this out with whatever they're …”
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Classic Hollywood makeup relied on pink undertones that excluded darker skin
“The makeups that were designed by men back in the day, and the heavier makeups, when you go back and you look at black and white, silver screen makeup, all the way to like, say, the seventies or eighties, right, when you're talking about Bobby Brown, those mak…”
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Silva kept the neon pink prototype color to stand out in retail
“I want you to be able to see it in a sea of black across the room. You know, when you walk into the store, I think the fact that it's an egg shape is so different. People are going to look at it and wonder, what the hell is this thing? And I want it to be pink…”