Fascinating story about lipstick queen Poppy King here http://tinyurl.com/6qho7q from both a business and personal branding perspective. Poppy King was all about personal branding before it ever became a trend! Here’s an excerpt from the Age Newspaper 27th July 2008.

“Then there’s Poppy herself, a head-turner even in New York where everybody looks as if they’ve been airbrushed for a photo shoot. Wearing a vintage-looking Fleur Wood dress, she’s accessoried with a red bracelet, red Marc Jacobs heels and the ubiquitous red lips. The rest of her face doesn’t have a lick of make-up on it, while her blonde locks fall in Veronica Lake waves. ”Poppy was always marching to a different beat,” says her mother, Rachelle King.