I'm not really a waitress : how one woman revamped the beauty industry one color at a time / Suzi Weiss-Fischmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi, author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

OPI (Firm).

Cosmetics industry--United States.

Cosmetics industry.

Manicuring--Equipment and supplies.

Manicuring.

Nail art (Manicuring).

Businesswomen--United States--Biography.

Businesswomen.

Weiss-Fischmann, Suzi.

Local Subjects:

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

I am not really a waitress

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Seal Press, [2019]

Summary:

Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a #1 beauty brand around the world 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.

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

We the female

Don't bossa nova me around

My address is "Hollywood"

Lincoln Park after dark

That's berry daring

It never ends

Purple with a purpose

Rosy future.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

ISBN:

9781580058193

1580058191

OCLC:

1045641139

Publisher Number:

99980371043