Nancy Twine grew up making her own hair products with her mother, a physician and chemist. But if you had told Twine she would one day own her own haircare company, sell it to global giant Wella and become one of the most influential voices in the beauty industry today, she wouldn’t have believed you.

“I wanted to do something I loved, that would pay the bills,” says Twine. “Never would I have imagined what Briogeo has become.”