How Melissa Butler Built The Lip Bar and Fights Colorism

“I’m a Self-Esteem Girl, a Mental Health Girl"

Melissa Butler, Founder and CEO of The Lip Bar, shares her challenging journey as an entrepreneur, how she fights colorism, and what "Love Your Brown Skin^®" means to her with host Jasmine Mobley on the Beauty Of The Nile podcast.

In Episode #34 of the Beauty Of The Nile Podcast, host Jasmine Mobley sits down with Melissa Butler, the founder of The Lip Bar.

We learn from Melissa:

• When she knew she needed to make the leap from Wall Street to The Lip Bar
• How she decided to start her brand by making lipstick
• What led her to launch her newest brand, thread beauty, in addition to the Lip Bar
• Her favorite AND most challenging days at the helm of the Lip Bar
• How she overcomes difficulties in life and in building her business 
• Her experiences with colorism and how those experience affected her and her perceptions of beauty
• What “Love Your Brown Skin” means to her
• What being a part of the Beauty Of The Nile community means to her
• Her message to YOU about beauty
• And MORE!!!

And, always… Love Your Brown Skin®.

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 Please note – for the purpose of Skin Care: We use Black skin, Brown skin, and skin-of-color interchangeably when discussing people-of-color. When we use the term people-of-color, we intend to mean those whose skin tone is not White and who are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, Mediterranean, Pacific Islander, or of Middle Eastern descent.