How to Win Grants to Fund Your Beauty Startup with Ezinne Iroanya S5 Ep. 11

Beauty Entrepreneurs Shares How She Caught Beypnces Attention + How She Wins Grants to Fund Her Business with Ezinne Iroanya S5 Ep. 11

Ezinne Iroanya is the CEO of SKNMUSE, a premium beauty brand championing Inclusivity and Sustainability in luxury. She comes with over a decade of experience working for brands like Lancome, and Dior. For her, beauty is culture and she believes everyone, especially black women, deserves to have an authentic representation of beauty. Her brand, SKNMUSE, has been featured by Beyonce, Issa Rae, Essence, and Vogue, rated top 10 by ELLE USA, and many more. She is a recent Glossier and Cantu Grant winner and has raised over $200,000.00 in national grants.

In this episode we discussed:

• Why she started SKNMUSE and the problem that she is solving
• Her goal is to show others how to use beauty as a means of financial empowerment.
• How her branding got her products got featured by top celebrities and magazines
• Her fundraising journey, including bootstrapping, grant funds, and other forms of funding
• Her top 5 fundraising strategies
• Her top 5 pieces of advice for Black female startup founders in the beauty industry about raising capital and growing a successful business

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Ezinne was kind enough to share a discount link "WTF10" exclusively for WTF? Podcast listeners at https://sknmuse.com/. Dont say I dont look out for you. Enjoy!

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WTF10

TYPE AND METHOD

• Amount off order
• Code

DETAILS

• Available on online sales channels and point of Sale
• 10% off entire order
• Applies to one time purchases
• No minimum purchase requirement
• All customers
• One use per customer
• Can't combine with other discounts
• Active from Sep 2 to Dec 18