Rose Receives Recognition

Inventor • Alchemist • Pioneer Rose Receives Recognition

The accolades keep pouring in. It’s official. the world loves Lip Ink products. Here’s a recap of some of Rose’s awards, recognition, and affiliations: • In 1996-7 her first patent was published. • Rose Nichols receives her first award at the 1997 International Invention Convention for the best cosmetic invention, featured on over 12 major network news stations, around the USA. Glamour Magazine picks up the buzz and calls Lip-Ink and Hollywood movie stars are first introduced to the product line. Lip-Ink produces three segments for TV, make-up artists, and consumers on the product line. • Lip Ink products are featured with Christina Ferrare and Dr. Andrew Weil on AM Los Angeles. • Many news articles congratulated Rose for her patented lip color. • Rose Nichols receives another award at the 1998 International Invention Convention for the best beauty and fashion product where she also served as a guest speaker. The speech focused on raising awareness for women in business and encouraged female empowerment. This event was viewed on six major news stations throughout the country. • Rose Nichols received three more patents for her smear-proof color cosmetic products. She was honored by the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and invited to speak before the student body and faculty, as they built their own cosmetic programs at the Fashion Institute. • Rose registers over 2000 domain names directly related to her cosmetic line, to get a better grasp of the

Internet traffic, soon to arrive. • She receives two more patents for her smear-proof cosmetics. •Lip-Ink International is lauded in several publications such as, Soaps magazine, Makeup Artist Magazine, and Estylo Magazine as the editor’s choice product. • Rose builds her second manufacturing plant including

IT server room and color cosmetic lab. She welcomes

the president of Federal Express David Bronczek, as he tours the Lip Ink manufacturing facility. Lip Ink becomes one of the first companies to fully integrate into the FedEx shipping system with online cosmetic sales. • Rose receives another Smear-Proof cosmetic patent and welcomes Playboy Movies as a new client. The company now has over 2000 locations in the professional spa/salon market, the plastic surgeon market, malls, kiosks and boutiques. • Rose Nichols stars in a documentary about her company, which aired more than 1000 times on the Style network. • Rose starts creating art with Lip-Ink Color building a museum on the www.lipink.com website. She recycles all the returned color product to painters that can use it as a color medium. • In 2003 Rose stars in her first TV commercial and shares her mission with the world. Rose Nichols personally invents 150 new products this year – with the introduction of natural flavors and color. • Environmentally conscious Refill program is implemented. Rose encourages consumers to re-use their containers by sending the used color vials back for a refill at a discounted price. It’s a win-win for everyone.

Internet sales climb to 85% of the company’s total revenue. • Rose Nichols partners with Pepperdine University’s

Education to Business MBA Marketing program where Lip Ink International becomes a case study.

Rose also joins PETA and the Safe Cosmetics Campaign with the only wax free smear proof cosmetics in the world with a product line containing over 550 natural, personally hand crafted products, all made in the USA under the strict guidelines of CTFA and FDA. • October 2005 Rose Nichols along with Lip-Ink

International is accepted by “Women’s Business

Enterprise.” WBE is a national council dedicated to women business owners and the support of women in business.

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• November 2005 Women’s Wear Daily introduces her newest line of cosmetics www.girlmakeup.com, which is sold exclusively on the Internet. • December 2005 Rose Nichols and the team of Lip

Ink International participate in a joint venture with

Pepperjam Management; a nationally recognized affiliate company, in order to maximize brand awareness, through internet exposure. • March 2006 Rose Nichols appears in the March issue of Beauty Launch Pad. Rose’s mission is conveyed in the featured article “What’s My Line,

Celebrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit.” • May 2006 Baltimore Sun states: No Need to Blot. • July 2006 Wikipedia.org, the Worlds Largest Free

Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-Ink) includes Lip Ink documenting a legend that began fifteen years ago. • Lip Ink International joins CCIC (Coalition for

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