This self-made billionaire built her fortune after fleeing communism in Romania in the 80s and building a salon beloved by Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian
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- Anastasia Soare immigrated to Los Angeles in 1989 to escape the hardships of Romania's Communist government.
- She worked as an aesthetician at a salon and quickly realized that no one was paying attention to eyebrows.
- She used a mathematical principle, called the golden ratio, as her framework to shape eyebrows based on people's bone structure and natural eyebrow shape.
- In 1992, Soare started her own grooming business in Beverly Hills and it became the "best kept secret in Hollywood" to a-listers such as Jennifer Lopez and Naomi Campbell.
- Anastasia Beverly Hills has grown into a company with 300 employees and continues to be a favorite among celebrities like Kim Kardashian.
Anastasia Soare was mastering eyebrows long before it was a beauty craze.
The Romania-born CEO and founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills has amassed a fortune by capitalizing on her attention to brows. Forbes estimates her current net worth at about $1 billion, putting her for the first time in her career on its list of the richest self-made women in the US at No. 21.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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