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The Handmade Beauty Business Magazine:
Contributors
HBN is pleased to introduce the regular contributors to the Handmade Beauty Business Magazine.
If you have any special areas of expertise that you would like to share with our readers, please read our editorial guidelines.
Christopher Farella, Esq.: Hiring The Help Column
Kayla Fioravanti: Beauty Business Blast Off! Column
Donna Maria Coles Johnson: Cook, bottle washer, forever
grateful to all these other people!
Ellie Trinowski: Finding Inspiration Column
Jamila White: E-Commerce And You Column
Lisa Bardsley, Creative Director
Christopher Farella, Esq.
Law Offices of Stahl
Farella & Sarokinn
Christopher helps companies grow by identifying and avoiding employment-related issues before they become problems. Christopher works with companies ranging from small entrepreneurial ventures to large multinational corporations. In particular,
he has provided counsel to and conducted litigation in state and federal courts for a wide array of businesses and has defended clients against investigations conducted by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state human rights
agencies and the U.S. Attorneys' Office. Chris is a popular speaker at
conferences and trade shows and his Hiring The Help column
shares his expertise with readers.
Kayla Fioravanti
Essential
Wholesale
Kayla is a wife, mother of 3, Aromatherapy Registration Council Certified
Aromatherapist and cosmetic formulator. Kayla's experience helping handmade
beauty businesses create new and exciting products is unsurpassed in our
industry. She helps people innovate using raw materials from around the
world and is knowledgeable about every aspect of cosmetic preparation. From
soup to nuts, including research, design, sourcing, manufacturing,
packaging, sales, marketing, labeling and more, Kayla is a literal
storehouse of information. Her Beauty Business Blast
Off! column helps readers translate simple concepts into fragrant
realities that sell.
Donna Maria Coles Johnson
Founder and President, The Handmade Beauty Network
Publisher, The Handmade Beauty Business Magazine
I love working with the exciting people you see listed here. They are
absolute tops in their field! I'm just glad I found them so my
picture can be on the same page with them!
Ellie Trinowski
Moonshine Soap
Moonshine Soap founder Ellie Trinowski is an industry treasure. Ellie
doesn't just make soap, she uses organic ingredients and pure essential oils
to create a truly luxurious bathing experience. Ellie does not follow the
crowd, but has freed herself from all preconceived notions, not only about
soap, but also about what she and her business can contribute to the world.
It is this kind of "outside the box" paradigm that Ellie shares
with readers in her Finding Inspiration column.
Jamila White
The E-Commerce Diva
Jamila White,
“The E-Commerce Diva”, helps small businesses who are struggling to
improve e-commerce sales. She’s also president of j.blossom and Co., a
member of the Handmade Beauty Network. Her E-Commerce and You
column will help members maximize the power of the Internet to increase
revenues and grow their brands.
Lisa
Bardsley
Lisa has
several years of experience in the cosmetics business, first as a rep for
other companies products and later as owner of former HBN member Old Thyme
Bath Company in Portland, Oregon. Lisa's extensive knowledge of the industry
and her creative talents are put to good use between the pages of our
magazine.
