“She didn’t just change how people wear makeup—she changed how they see themselves.” (Charlamagne tha God, for the Time 100 Most Influential People list)
Bobbi Brown, beauty mogul and visionary, opens up in her first memoir about the true story: reinvention, resilience, and the power of staying real. Brown is a trailblazer in the beauty industry. A New York Times bestselling author of nine makeup tutorial books to date, she is the founder of both her namesake beauty brand, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and her four-year-old clean beauty brand, Jones Road. Recognized as one of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women in 2021, included in Forbes‘s “50 Over 50” list of Most Influential Women in 2022, and honored with the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, Brown’s career has been nothing short of groundbreaking.
In Still Bobbi, she shares her personal journey, including the integral relationships that inspired and emboldened her from a young age to pursue her creative vision despite numerous challenges—offering a heartfelt and inspiring memoir guaranteed to captivate readers of all ages. In 1980, Brown had a wild idea: Real faces are beautiful. When makeup trends were about covering, contouring, and transforming, Brown blazed her own path, using makeup that accentuated a woman’s natural beauty. In the process, she revolutionized the makeup industry.
Brown’s philosophy is part of who she is, and it’s reflected in the way she lives her life. Real is better than fake. Simple is better than complicated. Family comes first. When real life throws you obstacles, maneuver and just figure it out. This hard-earned, deceptively simple wisdom is at the core of her new book, Still Bobbi.
Brown has authored many makeup books but has never written about her life… until now. Brown shares her story—a seemingly typical suburban girl who thrived socially but struggled academically and had a wonderfully complicated and glamorous mother. Brown navigated her childhood and discovered and refined her own view of beauty. She talked her way into New York’s beauty and fashion scene in the 1980s, found the love of her life, built her namesake brand into a billion-dollar worldwide business, sold control of her namesake brand, only to build another juggernaut beauty brand—all while raising a family and remaining true to herself.
In sharing a lifetime of intimate stories, hard-won practical wisdom, tips, and business savvy, Brown’s transformational memoir urges readers to embrace their own potential and pursue their dreams with confidence and clarity of purpose.
