In March, Yahoo Beauty reported on the incredible launch of Mented Cosmetics, a lipstick line started by two Harvard graduates who felt there was a void in the cosmetics industry when it came to nude ...

Show your inner glow, with a little help from K.J. Miller (CEO) and Amanda E. Johnson (COO), founders of Mented Cosmetics. (Photo: Mented) Have you ever looked for the perfect nude lipstick? Amanda E.

Friends since they were students at Harvard Business School, KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson found themselves lamenting a problem many women of color shared — finding appropriately pigmented cosmetics.

With $500 billion in global annual sales at stake and 30% of the beauty industry market shut down in 2020, one beauty executive didn’t even break a sweat. “E-commerce has been everything,” KJ Miller, ...

Mented Cosmetics founders Amanda E. Johnson and KJ Miller (Photo provided by Mented Cosmetics) Mented Cosmetics changed the beauty industry for the better when it was founded in 2017. Mented Cosmetics ...

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