While working as a financial analyst on Wall Street, Melissa Butler, the CEO and founder of The Lip Bar, a cosmetics and skin care company, couldn't help but notice the lack of options in the beauty ...

Beauty entrepreneur Melissa Butler launched her cosmetics brand The Lip Bar with a mission to "change the way people think about beauty.” It looks like she's changed the minds of skeptical investors ...

Detroit native Melissa Butler is an alumna of Florida A&M University, and the CEO and founder of the cosmetic brands The Lip Bar and Thread Beauty. Through her companies, she helps women by ...

Melissa Butler is the CEO and founder of The Lip Bar, as well as the founder and creator of Thread Beauty. What began as a mission to diversify makeup, she established a beauty brand that has ...

Your Next Move, a series of conversations with some of today’s most exciting entrepreneurs, is presented by Capital One Business in partnership with Inc. By even Shark Tank standards, the rejection ...

Walking into The Lip Bar at 1444 Woodward Avenue feels like stepping into a celebration of color. The bright and welcoming 800-square-foot space displays lipsticks like jewels across the walls—over 40 ...

It started with a lipstick and a Wall Street cubicle. Melissa Butler was working as an analyst at Barclays in New York when the frustration hit her. The job was prestigious, sure. But it didn’t feel ...

In 2012, Melissa Butler, an ex-licensed stockbroker on Wall Street, turned CEO of The Lip Bar Inc., had one mission, to create beauty products that challenge the linear beauty standard. In 10 years, ...

Butler stated her Black-owned business has seen a 30% decrease in sales in Target. The founder and CEO of successful Black-owned makeup brand The Lip Bar took to social media to confirm that sales ...

Restaurants have often relied on the simple sequence to drive revenue and experience: a guest arrives, a table is assigned, and a menu guides the final decision. According to Melissa Butler, founder ...