Hey guys, welcome back. This is a Manarchie. Today that's time is very special. I have a very

dear friend with me today and we're going to be talking about her brand, which I have absolutely fallen in love with.

She is truly an expert in the field of beauty. She's held positions in the companies like L'Oreal and has over 15 years of experience working with these companies.

So without further ado,

please welcome Avelina Aosa, who is the founder of Topical Skin. Welcome, Evalina. I'm so excited to host you. Thank you, Akta. Thank you for having me back. Yeah, no, I'm so glad for doing this. You know, I love what you're doing with Topical Skin. I can't wait to dive into the brand, but I want to refresh everyone's memory about your experience

because you really know this industry,

you know, I think you're one of the few people I've met that can really speak to so many parts of the beauty industry and the moving pieces. And I'd love to kind of share that with our audience, learn more about you, you know? So can you walk us down memory lane again and then tell us about your experience?

Yeah, sure.

I mean, I have over 15 years experience, you know, spanning luxury and professional beauty brands,

mostly in skincare as a sector, but I've also incubated brands in nutraceuticals and fragrance

categories as well.

I've held some pivotal roles at L'Oreal skin surocles, osmotic cosmoosuricles,

Pierre Fab Dermacematics, Avant brands, Glitaph. So a lot of like established, I would say,

legacy, medical grade professionally distributed and dispensed, skincare banks, and I feel like I bring

the big beauty perspective, but I also have like this indie brand

in January because I also incubated brands in the past for Sephora, for private investors.

So I would say this is not my first rodeo.

I also had a pleasure of working with a very well-known and respected contract manufacturer

who provided products for a lot of physician

brands back in a day as well as private label. So microbiologists, cosmetic chemists,

raw material vendor suppliers are all like my friends from back in a day. And I purposely,

meaningfully stayed in this sector of professional great beauty because that's where my network and expertise and

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