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D2C / Beauty

Launching a cosmetics brand while still in business school

Client industry

D2C / Beauty

Permission status

Client agreed to be named

The situation

While pursuing her MBA, the founder launched a skincare brand using naturally sourced ingredients — with prototype products ready, but no registrations, trademark protection, or route to market against established competitors.

Our diagnosis

A genuinely differentiated product needed the legal and marketplace foundation to compete with brands that already had both — without that foundation, the product alone wasn't enough to launch credibly.

What we did

Completed GST registration
Filed trademark application to protect the brand name
Designed packaging and ran product photography
Launched the brand on Amazon
Ran influencer marketing to build early visibility

Where it landed

GlowNest Cosmetics went from prototype products to a branded cosmetics business selling online, launched while the founder was still completing her MBA.

What was delivered

Launched on Amazon while the founder was still completing her MBA
Trademark application filed to protect the brand name
5 workstreams delivered together: GST, trademark, packaging, marketplace launch, influencer marketing

In the client's words

“Launching a business while studying became possible because everything else was managed for me.”

— Pooja Malhotra, Founder, GlowNest Cosmetics