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Danessa Myricks at the office of Danessa Myricks Beauty in Long Island, N.Y. on July 17, 2024.Yehyun Kim—The Washington Post/Getty Images Danessa Myricks is the first to admit that her pathway into the beauty industry was unconventional. “I say that I am accidental in every way,” she says. “I knew nothing, I had no money, but I did have passion.” Myricks, 54, began her career working in sales for a magazine publisher, where she often saw makeup artists at photoshoots in the office. “I saw this life that was so separate from me at that time,” she says. “I was that corny girl in the corner who didn't even wear makeup.” When the company shuttered in 2001, she thought back to those makeup artists she would see in the office who were getting paid to express themselves creatively and decided to try to become one of them. She supported herself with temp jobs while she began cobbling together her own makeup kits and working for free as a makeup artist to gain experience in the industry. “I would just create color cream piles that I would use for everything, as eyeshadow, as lipstick, as a blush,” she says, describing how she would melt down drugstore products to bring to life the shades and textures she envisioned. Her innovation came out of necessity. “I had to get very creative with layering unconventional things together,” she says. “And also I had to get very creative in creating shades, because the spectrum was very narrow. I knew that there was more possibility than what I was seeing in the store.” In 2015, she founded Danessa Myricks Beauty as a response to the lack of inclusivity in the beauty industry. “I had experience working with all of these brands, and what I found is that they had their idea of who they were creating for, who consumed makeup. I didn't see me. I didn't see my friends.” The brand, which offers a range of multipurpose products, is now sold in Sephora, but Myricks says there is still a lot of work to be done. “There are so many formulas that don't translate on medium to deep skin tones,” she says. She insists that, while some might think of makeup as frivolous, it affects lives in big ways. “It changed how I worked, it changed how I showed up in meetings and in conversations, it changed how I showed up in relationships. It changed my entire life as a woman on this planet,” she says. “What we're doing is way more than putting color and texture in a pan or a pot. 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