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It wasn’t untilBobbi Brownhad a conversation with her 90-year-old Aunt Alice that she decided it was time to walk away from her iconic namesake brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, after 30 years.
“She said, ‘Every time I talk to you, you talk about all the things you have to do, and you’re just not getting them done,’ " Brown recalls. Still, “it was not an overnight decision.”
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The makeup artist pursued new passions in the wellness space — becoming a certified wellness coach, writing her ninth book,Beauty from the Inside Outand launching a line of supplements at Walmart, Evolution_18. Initially, Brown didn’t think she would ever go back to makeup, until her creative wheels started spinning.
Brown maintains that her “fearless” mindset kept her going during the pandemic. “I realized that if I didn’t have an upbeat, positive attitude and I weren’t open to change, I never could have done this,” she says of launching Jones Road in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine, she adds, “teaches you that you have to really reinvent everything. Every single thing.”
She calls her father Joe Brown her role model, who has inspired her to find what you love doing, regardless of your age. “Fifteen years ago, at 70, my father retired from being a lawyer and became a children’s book author. He’s written more than 10 books, is working on a screenplay and just hired a social media manager. He’s happier than he’s ever been in his life,” Brown says. “It’s never too late.”
source: people.com
