Posted on April 5, 2010.
Famous Hair Accessories Women Inventors Behind them, Remember the TopsyTail a„c? How could you forget? The bestselling hair accessory in history had a ubiquitous infomercial in the 1990s that set the standard for fashion accessories other products to follow. TopsyTail a„c sold over 100 million dollars in a short period of time. Meanwhile, other successful products Hairdini a„c, Whirl-A-Style a„c a„c Fantail and experienced a longer life market, and changes in product lines. All products have been invented by women, who entered the business for different reasons in a unique way.
Fantail a„c - still a bestseller in Ulta stores over five years.
For Sandra Lunde, the inventor of the Fantail a„c (which inserts into the hair to make a ponytail spiky), a real dream to invent something for the hair was the epiphany that she needed to into the business. "The dream was so real that I knew I had to invent something and make it reality," recalls Sandra. She has always loved doing hair as a child, and not even the hair of his mother, while dreaming of a future as a hairdresser. She noted that she would have done in another area of creation, such as graphic or interior design, if it had not done that. It was quite the fashionista and, reading magazines and beauty shopping for the latest trends in clothing. She has long straight hair that, while plain when worn down, works well with his Fantail a„c product, particularly during the summers. She credits "perseverance, positive attitude and desire to succeed" as the personal characteristics that led to its success. It has invested his own money into the product, and while she got frustrated at times, "continued" whatever. The inspiration of the circular form of the product components came during a night of ordering "We got a pizza to go and there was something plastic in the box he was holding the box to paste pizza ... and this I got a basic shape for my product. A bit weird I know! "If she had done things differently, she would have sought a license agreement with an outside company for its first product, Clip-N-Lift, and collect royalties, instead of manufacturing and marketing of the product itself same. With the Fantail a„c she was not wrong, and decided to go with a licensing agreement through brainstorming accessories. It tells future inventors to "believe you can do something and never give!
TopsyTail a„c - dominated the market against 1991-93, selling more than $ 100 million.
Tomima Edmark, inventor of TopsyTail a„c (which becomes a ponytail inside out to make hairstyles interesting), quite simply, I wanted to be his own boss. It had climbed as high as she could and reached the glass ceiling at IBM, but tired of working for other people. She was interested by the hair of necessity, she had always had long hair and "has always been the search for quick solutions. Fashion has always been in his mind grew, and she "always wanted to be a fashion designer or do something artsy-creative. I designed a coat hanger into paired with accessories provided with instructions on how to make four or five sets of things held by the support. With my machine I did surge placemats and matching napkins for football, soccer and baseball. Although she did not consider himself a fashionista in the traditional sense, she remembers "I certainly did my strange sense of fashion. While other children were neglected, clothing grunge Seattle, I my own clothes, many of them in the batik, macrame, knitted or crocheted. And I had 20 different hats! "It is not a fat client, but prefer to spice up with accessories-classic" they are "clothes in fashion, she says. It financed and invested in TopsyTail a„c itself. The inspiration for the design of the product is derived from a circular knitting needle, which she one day d.