{"id":50797,"date":"2017-10-09T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=50797"},"modified":"2019-04-30T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T08:20:22","slug":"peoples-champion-finalist-2017-sleek-brows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/peoples-champion-finalist-2017-sleek-brows\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Champion finalist 2017: Sleek Brows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name: <\/strong>Sleek Brows<strong><br>\nFounders: <\/strong>Kintija Belska and Monika Ludwiczak<strong><br>\nStarted in: <\/strong>October 2013<strong><br>\nBased in: <\/strong>London&nbsp;<strong><br>\nBusiness description: <\/strong>Beauty business that provides eyebrow manicures and treatments<\/p>\n<h3>Shortlisted categories:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/export-business-of-the-year-2017-meet-the-finalists-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Export Business of the Year<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/women-in-business-award-2017-meet-the-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women in Business Award<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Sleek Brows story:<\/h3>\n<p>One of the life&rsquo;s genuine struggles, attempting to get your brows &lsquo;on fleek&rsquo; for a night out with the girls or for that all-important Instagram post can be a truly hazardous endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>Between pencilling in your eyebrows every day, tinting them every couple of weeks, or turning to full blown permanent make-up, results can be short lived, or worse, long-lasting but with no dimension whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>But not anymore. Founded by beauty entrepreneurs Kintija Belska and Monika Ludwiczak, Sleek Brows offers 3D brow building and has two main forms of treatment, Sleek Brows and EverlastingBrows.<\/p>\n<p>The &lsquo;Sleek Brows&rsquo; concept is a non-invasive procedure which involves an application of sculptured eyebrow paint that has the capacity to imitate real eyebrow hairs, and which will last for up to three weeks. A treatment Sleek Brows claims was non-existent in the industry before their innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The second, EverlastingBrows is an invasive procedure that, using a blade and sculpting paint, imitates hair strokes in the basal layer of epidermis, creating realistic results lasting for 18 months. A result that Sleek Brows say is &ldquo;gentler than permanent make-up&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Flying 800,000 miles in a year to satisfy the interest of setting up new training centres across the world, 300,000 of these treatments were carried out in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving coverage in the likes of <em>Grazia<\/em>, <em>Harpers Bazaar<\/em>, <em>OK<\/em>, <em>Latvian Forbes<\/em> and the&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail<\/em>, Sleek Brow&rsquo;s wide reach isn&rsquo;t confined to the pages of beauty magazines, as the start-up counts the US as its largest market.<\/p>\n<p>Having bootstrapped their business to date, and operating in an industry estimated to be worth $675bn by 2020, Kintija Belska and Monika Ludwiczak are raising eyebrows in the all the right ways.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Sleek Brows made our shortlist:<\/h3>\n<p>An innovative idea that&rsquo;s truly gone global,&nbsp;Kintija Belska and Monika Ludwiczak&rsquo;s long distance travels, intense research and commitment to their craft has seen them become pioneers within their industry.<\/p>\n<h3>Where to find out more about Sleek Brows:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleekbrows.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sleekbrows.com<\/a><strong><br>\nTwitter: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SleekBrows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SleekBrows<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name: Sleek Brows Founders: Kintija Belska and Monika Ludwiczak Started in: October 2013 Based in: London&nbsp; Business description: Beauty business that provides eyebrow manicures and treatments Shortlisted categories: Export Business of the Year, Women in Business Award The Sleek Brows story: One of the life&rsquo;s genuine struggles, attempting to get your brows &lsquo;on fleek&rsquo; 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