Tina Hedges

Founder and CEO, LOLI Beauty · 2 appearances on the record.

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Tina Hedges is a beauty industry veteran who held executive roles at L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, and LVMH before transitioning into entrepreneurship. She is best known for founding LOLI Beauty, a zero-waste, food-grade organic cosmetics company, and previously helped develop the Bravo reality series Blow Out.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Tina argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hedges: Food-grade organic ingredients have never been used in beauty before
“We use food grade, which has not been done before in the beauty industry, organic ingredients.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:21 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue

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Everything Tina Hedges said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Hedges: Strict PPP rules prevent relief loans from extending startup runway
“Because of the rules around how you have to use it in the time period you have to use it, it's not free money, and it's not money that is like an extra cushion.”
Tina Hedges Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 13:25 #92 Who Did the PPP Actually Save?
Assertion Contradicted
Hedges: Food-grade organic ingredients have never been used in beauty before
“We use food grade, which has not been done before in the beauty industry, organic ingredients.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:21 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Opinion
Hedges: Mainstream beauty brands strip natural oils and add harmful fragrances
“That's what the beauty industry does. They'll take your argan oil, and they'll process it, take out any scent, And then throw in a fragrance. None of that is good for you.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 10:19 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Assertion Contradicted
Hedges: Lolli is only beauty brand displaying every ingredient percentage
“And if you see the graph on the label, we're the only beauty company to show you every ingredient and what level it's in, in the product.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:18 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hedges: Lolli will generate at least $500,000 in first-year sales
“On a very low estimate, we think we can do half a million.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:28 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hedges: Lolli operates at over 90% gross margins
“So my gross margins are over 90%.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:37 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Assertion Contradicted
Hedges: 60% of US millennials buy food-grade ingredients for DIY skincare
“60% of US millennials are already buying food grade ingredients to blend their own beauty products at home, because they feel it's better for them.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 11:39 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Insight
Hedges: True Innovation Never Tests Well with Consumers or Investors
“True innovation, you know, I say this all the time, and I think Steve Jobs helped sort of raise the awareness to this but true innovation never tests well. Consumers can only tell you what they know, not what they don't know, and I think investors are the same…”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 24:47 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Disclosure
Hedges: Lolli is raising $750,000 at a $7M valuation cap
“I'm raising right now seven 50, safe note, seven million Valcap.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:17 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue
Disclosure
Hedges: Lolli Secures Signed Lead for $1.5M Funding Round
“We are in the term sheet's approved, the lead has signed off, we just are doing the final paperwork, and it should all be executed, and money in the bank next week.”
Tina Hedges Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 22:16 #38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
#92 Who Did the PPP Actually Save? Mar 4, 2025 1m
#38 A Beauty Industry Veteran Goes Rogue Mar 3, 2025 10m
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