Although OPI is now associated with the luxury of professional manicures and its cache of more than 200 colors, it had a less glamorous start.
Though it was not a glamorous start, the youngster had entered an industry that was dramatically changing to reflect equally rapid shifts in society.
Estimated return on investment for glamorous start-ups varies wildly, and name recognition can go from bonus to liability overnight if a star's wattage dims.
Sure, such a contribution is neither worth flaunting in a college application nor as glamorous as starting up your own charity; still, it can make a significant, direct impact.
Dorothy regaled me in a whisper with stories of her glamorous life, starting out painting alongside her husband, artist John Upham, in New York in the early 60s, leaving him for German painter Dieter Roth, whom she met in Reykjavik in 1967, and finally permanently relocating to Berlin in 1974.
(FYI, it's really terrifying when glamorous women start screaming in tongues two feet behind you in a small room filled with fake flowers. I wouldn't recommend it if you have a fragile disposition. Well, I wouldn't really recommend it if you don't, either).
Take a look at the video below to hear about his not-so-glamorous start in the business.
Student journalism is not the most glamorous way to start your media career.
The campaign, which the United Nations agency says is essential to break the link between smoking and the glamorous sports world, started the same day as the W.H.O.'s country members met in their third round of negotiations to hammer out a global antitobacco treaty.
Part of a growing fashion for arts events that refuse to bring down the curtain in time for the last train home, the glamorous cultural marathon started with cocktails at 8.30pm on Friday and ran through the night to breakfast at 8am yesterday.
