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10th Sep 2018

What Marissa Carter definitely DOESN’T want you to say to her about Cocoa Brown

Rebecca O'Keeffe

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It drives her mad!

Nobody can deny the incredible success of Marissa Carter.

She started a salon a number of years ago, and has pretty much been building an empire ever since.

In fact, just last week Marissa launched launched a 103-product makeup range – pretty impressive.

I was lucky enough to sit down with Marissa Carter recently, to chat about her business successes.

There I was having a great time, asking loads of fun questions.

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Until I landed on one that she was less than happy with (and I don’t blame her to be honest).

I asked: “Were you surprised by the instant success of Cocoa Brown?”

I am a moron.

“I HATE when people say that Cocoa Brown had instant success,” she said.

“It did not have instant success! Nothing was instant. I had built up loads of customers in the salon; that did not happen overnight.”

“My salon was eight-years old when I started Cocoa Brown so I had that kinda ready-made base of customers to start out with.”

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So much hard work and time went into developing Cocoa Brown.

Carter Beauty Behind The Brand follows Marissa as she prepares to launch her most ambitious project yet: Carter Beauty Cosmetics.

The affordable range (it all comes in under €15) includes a jet black gel liner (€4.95) and high pigment eyeshadow palettes (€14.95), as well as colour-pop matte lipsticks (€6.95).

You can watch the first episode – The Beginning Of An Empire – of Carter Beauty Behind The Brand here: