Posted on 07/11/2018 11:22:26 AM PDT by SMGFan
K ylie Jenner sits at a dark-wood dining table at her mother's home in Calabasas, California, flicking through display options for a forthcoming pop-up shop. The youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner industrial complex needs to decide how to showcase products by her Kylie Cosmetics makeup company. She taps her black iPhone X with a silver glittery nail and turns the screen around to show a coterie of employees a vending machine.
"You guys, imagine this, but all in lip kits," says Jenner, dressed in a black blazer and matching black patent Louboutins with bright red soles. "I think it needs to be a clear vending machine where you see all the colors."
What her half-sister Kim Kardashian West did for booty, Jenner has done for full lips. Like Kardashian West, she has leveraged her assets to gain both fame and money. But while her sister is best-known for the former, Jenner has proved adept at the latter. In historic fashion. Just 20 when this story publishes (she'll turn 21 in August) and an extremely young mother (she had baby daughter Stormi in February), Jenner runs one of the hottest makeup companies ever. Kylie Cosmetics launched two years ago with a $29 "lip kit" consisting of a matching set of lipstick and lip liner, and has sold more than $630 million worth of makeup since, including an estimated $330 million in 2017. Even using a conservative multiple, and applying our standard 20% discount, Forbes values her company, which has since added other cosmetics like eye shadow and concealer, at nearly $800 million. Jenner owns 100% of it.
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Must have inherited them from her Father/Mother Brucie pooh.
Ah, belay that. The article says she was a paid endorser for “Sinful Colors”: it’s not her own company’s product.
If she had ANY brains she would invest in real estate, quit, and get away from those parasites in Hollywood.
She would get the last laugh.
“KJs got Man Hands”
Well, her dad taught her how to do makeup.
Capitalism and Sex! Great combo to make millions!
Good point! lol
She has rather large hands for such a young girl...
No one ever remains poor by underestimating the stupidity and ignorance of the average US Tv/cable viewer.
Her fortune is largely a closed loop inside her particular edge of the pond. Like dems who donate to Hillary whose policies further dem values, Kylie’s customers who made her wealthy are like-minded vain liberal young women with disposable income who finance the Kardashian liberal lifestyle. Also, it’s a big pond.
Bashing capitalism. Nice. DU would welcome you with open arms. Of course trolling here gets you the ammo needed to run back to your liberals friends and laugh. So classy.
Meh, who cares; Fools and their money.
Sounds more like a statement about the intelligence level of a certain tv viewing demographic than an attack on capitalism.
Somewhat related, I recall a science fiction story from years ago that (as a very minor plot point) mentioned a crook who managed to digitally steal a tiny fraction of a penny from each and every bank transaction in the continent of Africa (they had low tech and didnt detect such minor losses). The guy made trillions and basically collapsed Africa.In "Superman 3", Richard Pryor's character designed a program to slice off leftover half cents from payroll checks.
My God, I am in the wrong line of business.
A lot of these family members are to the right of center.
Well, if you post lots of semi-nude pictures of yourself on Instagram, maybe millions of people will want to buy the makeup you’re wearing.
Yep-—same formula developed in the pretty-much pre-Internet age from TV with QVC and HSN. Amazing. Surprised brick and mortar is still hanging on.
Surprised brick and mortar is still hanging on.
It’s just taking a little longer than I thought, I suspect...
Hey..that was basically what Richard Pryor did in Superman III at his workplace. Comes rolling in one day in a real fancy car obviously above his paygrade...kind of done him in.
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