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Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
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Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
OPI (Firm)
Cosmetics industry -- United States.
Manicuring -- Equipment and supplies.
Nail art (Manicuring)
Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
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Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
OPI (Firm)
Cosmetics industry -- United States.
Manicuring -- Equipment and supplies.
Nail art (Manicuring)
Businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
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I'm not really a waitress : how one woman revamped the beauty
industry
one color at a time / Suzi Weiss-Fischmann.
by
Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
Seal Press, 2019.
Call #:
338.766855 W433i
Subjects
Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.
OPI (Firm)
Cosmetics
industry
--
United
States
.
Manicuring
--
Equipment and supplies.
Nail art (Manicuring)
Businesswomen
--
United
States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781580058193 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How one woman revamped the beauty
industry
one color at a time
Description:
xii, 225 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Subtitle on cover: "How one woman took over the beauty
industry
..."
Contents:
Introduction: a great opera-tunity
--
Suzi without a paddle
--
This color's making waves
--
Toucan do it if you try
--
Color so hot it Berns
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We the female
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Don't bossa nova me around
--
My address is Hollywood
--
Lincoln Park after dark
--
That's berry daring
--
Purple with a purpose
--
It never ends-- Rosy future.
Summary:
"Today, OPI is known as a global beauty brand, famous for its trend-setting colors, unforgettable shade names, and celebrity collaborations with the biggest stars from film, television, music, and sports. But behind all the glamour is the little-known tale of OPI’s unlikely origins-an intimate and inspiring story of a timid schoolgirl who arrives in this country with little money and no English and becomes the business leader and
industry
game-changer known worldwide as "Suzi, the First Lady of Nails." In I’m Not Really a Waitress – titled after OPI’s top-selling nail color – Suzi reveals the events that led her family to flee communist Hungary and eventually come to New York City in pursuit of the American dream. She shares how those early experiences gave rise to OPI’s revolutionary vision of freedom and empowerment, and how Suzi transformed an
industry
by celebrating the power of color-and of women themselves."--Seal Press website.
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