Anastasia Soare Explained

Anastasia Soare
Birth Name:Anastasia Bălămaci
Birth Date:1957 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Constanța, Romania
Nationality:Romanian
American
Occupation:Businesswoman
Known For:CEO and founder, Anastasia Beverly Hills
Children:1

Anastasia Soare (née Bălămaci) (born 28 December 1957)[1] is a Romanian-American businesswoman, and the CEO and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills, known as the "Eyebrow Queen".[2]

Early life

Soare was born in Constanța, Romania.[3] [4] [5] She is the child of Dumitru Bălămaci (who died when she was 12) and Victoria Babu, who owned a tailoring shop.[6] She studied art history and architecture in Romania.[7] [8]

Career

Soare spoke very little English in 1989 when she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as an aesthetician at a beauty salon and soon realized that eyebrows were an under-explored area. "I developed a technique for how to shape eyebrows according to people's bone structure and natural eyebrow shape".[4] [9] As her manager did not think there was enough of a market, she rented a room in a Beverly Hills salon, providing facials, body waxing, and eyebrow sculpting.[4] By 1997, she was running her own salon on Beverly Hills' Bedford Drive.[4] As a beautician, she has stated that her first two clients for an eyebrow treatment were Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.[7] Other clients have included Faye Dunaway and Jennifer Lopez.[4]

Soare is the CEO and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills beauty brand, available in almost 2,000 stores internationally.[4] In 2018, Soare sold a minority stake in the business to portion to a private equity firm.[10]

In 2023, Forbes estimated the value of all of Anastasia Beverly Hills at approximately $500 million.[11]

Personal life

In 1978, she married Victor Soare, a ship's captain.[6] The couple has a daughter, Claudia (known professionally as Norvina), who is also active in the makeup business.[7]

In 1986, while his ship was docked in Italy, Victor Soare visited the American embassy and asked for asylum. He reached the United States six months later.[12] However, Soare and her daughter were not allowed to leave Romania to join him in the United States until 1989.[12] Victor and Anastasia divorced in 1994.[6] [12]

She lives in Beverly Hills, California, US.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mitu . Rodica . Nu o să-ți vină să crezi ce vârstă are Anastasia Soare . 2023-02-28 . DCNews . 12 October 2020 . ro.
  2. Web site: 11 Must-Know Tips From the Industry's Eyebrow Queen. Dawson Hoff. Victoria. 25 August 2014. Elle. 30 August 2018.
  3. Web site: Meet the Artist: Anastasia Soare . Anastasia Beverly Hills . 4 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181104211116/https://www.anastasiabeverlyhills.com/the-arch/?cid=the-arch-229 . 4 November 2018 . dead .
  4. Web site: Schrodt . Paul . July 18, 2018 . Meet the Woman Behind Anastasia Beverly Hills, a Self-Made Billionaire 'Eyebrow Queen' Who Fled Communism in the '80s to Start a Beauty Empire . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200922111258/https://money.com/anastasia-soare-makeup-billionaire-interview/https://web.archive.org/web/20200922111258/https://money.com/anastasia-soare-makeup-billionaire-interview/ . September 22, 2020 . Money.com . 24 July 2018.
  5. Web site: America's Newest Beauty Billionaire Built An Empire Targeting Women's Eyebrows. Madeline. Berg. forbes.com. 24 July 2018.
  6. Web site: Arch Angel. people.com. 26 July 2018.
  7. Web site: 5 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Anastasia Beverly Hills. Renee. Jacques. 29 December 2015. allure.com. 26 July 2018.
  8. Web site: Jennifer Lopez's Pro Anastasia Soare Shares Her Journey from Brow Artist to Billionaire Businesswoman . 2024-08-19 . Peoplemag . en.
  9. Web site: Shira . Dahvi . Anastasia Beverly Hills Enters Minimalist ‘No-Makeup Makeup’ Category . 2024-08-19 . Forbes . en.
  10. Web site: Anastasia Soare . 2024-02-13 . Forbes . en.
  11. Web site: LABJ . 2024-06-03 . LA500 2024: Anastasia Soare . 2024-08-19 . Los Angeles Business Journal . en-US.
  12. Web site: Immigrants in Beauty: Anastasia Soare . 6 February 2017. allure.com . 26 July 2018.
  13. Web site: Forbes profile: Anastasia Soare . Forbes . 21 November 2018.