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Do You Know What The Names Of These Beauty Brands Mean?

NARS was named after it's founder, French photographer François Nars.

What is NARS named after?

Maybelline was after Tom Lyle Williams' sister, Mabel, who gave him the idea after watching her applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker, fuller look.

How about Maybelline?

The name was inspired by the castle Le Château de Lancosme.

What about Lancôme Paris?

OPI was originally named Odontorium Products Inc., since it was a dental supply company that was later bought and turned into a nail polish brand.

What does OPI mean?

NYX is named after the Greek goddess of night.

What's the story behind NYX?

MAC stands for Make-up Art Cosmetics.

How about MAC?

Yes, e.l.f. = eyes lips face.

What does e.l.f. mean?

Stila is derived from the Italian word "stilare," which can mean "to pen". Its founder, Jeanine Lobell, said that they sort of made up the word.

What's the story behind Stila?

The name is derived from the scientific name for oat, Avena Sativa, which is one of the key ingredients in their products.

What about Aveeno?

Essie was named after its founder, Essie Weingarten.

Where does Essie come from?

Miss Jessie was the paternal grandmother of Miko and Titi Branch, founders of Miss Jessie's Natural Hair Products.

Who is Miss Jessie?

It's a combination of its founder's last names: Charles Revson, Joseph Revson, and Charles Lachman (who contributed the "L").

What does Revlon even mean?

Yup, WEN is "new" spelled backwards.

What is WEN?

Sephora is a word made up by combining the name "Zipporah" (Moses' wife in the Book of Exodus), and the word "sephosis", a Greek term attributed to beauty and vanity.

How about Sephora?

As long as they make you look good, you don't really care what the names of your favorite beauty brands mean. What's in a name, right?

Cute but clueless <3.

To be fair, some of these names are like celebrity baby names: Weird AF for no reason.

You didn't completely suck, so yay for you!

You know it all, that's why your hair is so big: It's full of beauty knowlegde.

Beauty queen!

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