• Liquid Lipstick

    Posted by Anonymous on April 28, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    Looking to start a line this summer, who are some good labs to contact regarding the matter? I would like to start contacting people as soon as I can. Ive contacted a few with no responses. 

    bobzchemist replied 7 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 4 Replies
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  • Anonymous

    Guest
    April 28, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    My products of choice right now are liquid to matte lipsticks and glosses, really glittery glosses. 

  • bobzchemist

    Member
    April 28, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    What kind of budget do you have?

  • Anonymous

    Guest
    April 28, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    Its open, i will be able to get as much as i need to start

  • bobzchemist

    Member
    April 28, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    That really doesn’t tell me anything I need to know.

    Let’s look at it this way.

    If you had an enormous budget, really yuuge, in the 2-3 million dollar range, and you were going to start national distribution all at once, that would be one kind of project. You would need a certain kind of consultant and lab/manufacturer.

    If you had a really small budget, in the $20 -$30,000 range, and you were going to start small, with a few customers, and grow from there, that would be a different kind of project. You would need an entirely different kind of consultant and lab/manufacturer.

    If you were trying to start doing this on the tiniest of shoestrings, in the $5 - $10,000 range, well, you’d really need a different approach altogether.

    Starting a business selling cosmetics is not any different than starting a business selling shoe polish, for example. What have you got in place in terms of a business plan, etc.?

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