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JolieMD: The Message

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

One of the most important parts of a project like JolieMD was messaging; now that Dr Litner and I had created our hero products, how were we going to explain that this product worked on anti- aging by removing fine lines and wrinkles as well as by evening skin tone, while also combating stubborn acne and hyperpigmentation.

Here we need to first thank Nadine Jolie, who was there to help us take out the medicalese and explain in clear terms what women needed to know. Tirelessly, she edited copy after copy of the philosophy behind the brand, the ingredients present and how they worked, and the irritants that we had avoided and why we had avoided them. She helped fashion the message we wanted to tell: that we had combined over 22% active ingredients in each- Softening Serum and Lightening Lotion- and that was why JolieMD works- period.

And more, Nadine was there, with our Practice Manager Baharak Amirian, to review the packaging to make sure it is feminine enough, sophisticated enough; to feel the products and make sure they are smooth enough, soft enough. Their fingerprints, along with our families and friends, have been present throughout the project from the beginning, and so we named this beautiful new product JolieMD- because from the beginning Dr Litner and I want to create a new brand that has that unique combination that we think had eluded skin care to date- an effective, simple to use product, that was beautiful…that was Jolie.

With the message complete, we turned to the PR expertise of Erin Kelly of The Collective, and our dear friend and retail liaison Danielle Bristol Chang, who together and in their own respective ways have worked tirelessly reaching out to beauty bloggers, beauty editors, and beauty buyers everywhere to get the word out that there is a new brand of skin care- JolieMD.

Dr Litner and I cannot thank our dedicated team enough for all their efforts to let you know about JolieMD.

JolieMD in Vogue.It

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Just got back from a great launch at CO Bigelow in NY and found out Patrice from Afrobella was kind enough to mention JolieMD in Vogue.It

See it here:          http://bit.ly/joliemdvogue

Designing JolieMD: How JolieMD Became Beautiful

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

When Dr Litner and I started thinking about JolieMD: two things were forefront in our mind

1 It has to work- a hero product

2. It needs to be glamorous, beautiful, and unlike all the other sterile, unisex doctor lines already available

As we wrote yesterday, making a product that was effective, easy to use and gentle took an intense amount of research, time and the help of the team at Free Radical Technology. But perhaps, in some ways almost as important, was the design, packaging and look of the products and for this we need to thank first and foremost, Tracy Capisce of Capisce Design, as well as our very own Nadine Jolie, who as Creative Director was there to help us navigate this process from the beginning.

First, what can we say about the dedication and imagination of Ms Tracy Capisce. Even upon our initial meeting with Tracy, we knew that she was the one who could translate our vision of glamour, sophistication and beauty to this product we had created. After countless reviews and with the help of Marla Litner- Dr Litner’s wife- we had finally chosen an airless bottle, and a conceptual framework- we wanted a beautiful gift- like package that showed the faces of all the various beautiful women’s complexions for whom JolieMD was created. It was Tracy’s job to make the packaging beautiful and sophisticated, even as people all around were telling her and us that faces on a box would not work.

From the beginning Tracy completely accepted the challenge and put herself entirely into the project- tirelessly making herself available for model shoots, packaging press checks, and iteration after iteration of the packaging and website. And we simply cannot thank her enough for her smiling, wonderful imagination that entirely captured our vision.

Finding JolieMD: The Formuation

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

The Formulation

In our ongoing “Who’s who” list of all those who helped Dr Litner and I create JolieMD, we wanted to turn today to perhaps the most challenging step in the creation of JolieMD- those who helped us in the real work of putting all of the ingredients we wanted together in a formulation that feels great, achieves real results, and is non- irritating.

So in formulation, Dr Litner and I would have to thank first and foremost,  John Garruto, Tina Fleck, and the entire team of chemists at Free Radical Technology who helped us put Metamorphosis together. In formulating Softening Serum and Enlightening Lotion, their team had the unenviable position of having to achieve the previously unimaginable.

In 2 steps we wanted to blend all of the ingredients we had researched and needed to stop acne, treat hyperpigmentation, and fight wrinkles, and the product had to:

1 Be gentle enough for every complexion

2 Stay effective for the life of the product (wanted active ingredients to remain active and not oxidize), and

3. Be free of all the potentially harmful elements (think parabens, sulfates, and phthalates that are ubiquitous in the skin care industry)

The team at Free Radical was amazing in not only achieving our requests but also in making sure that the products felt better smooth and luxurious and did not cause any bleaching or staining of pillows or clothes as so many other products do.

Simply put, the Free Radical Technology team is amazing and Dr Litner and I cannot thank them enough for all their help.

Finding JolieMD- Creating a New Brand of Skin Care

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The Inspiration

In the beginning, Dr Litner and I wanted to accomplish one simple thing:

Create the best possible treatment for the 3 things that all women want from their skin care products:

1. To be rid of acne

2. To have even, smooth complexion, free of hyperpigmentation and the need for cover up

3. To achieve and maintain vibrant, youthful skin as free of wrinkles as possible for as long as possible.

While Dr Litner and I spent hundreds and thousands of hours in researching acne, aging, hyperpigmentation and the ingredients we needed to create the best possible product to treat them, JolieMD’s Metamorphosis would not have been the great product it is but for the help of all the people in our lives who helped us create it. So we wanted to acknowledge the hard work of everyone of the JolieMD team, who each in their own way is a co-creator of our amazing product. Over the next few days we wanted to take some time to highlight the efforts of some of our many co-creators.

For me personally the search for JolieMD, as with all creation, started with an inspiration, my beautiful girlfriend, Sheree. What was striking for me was that over the years Sheree would often remark on how she had never found any skin care products that not only stopped her acne breakouts but also the resulting hyperpigmentation that led her to use cover up every day to even out her complexion.

This simple idea, a product that stopped acne, cleared hyperpigmentation, and allowed for a youthful, wrinkle free complexion brought countless people to us whose contribution, small and large, led Dr Litner and I to create a new brand of skin care.