Uzalo Actress Nyalleng Thibedi Is Set To Launch Her Own Lipgloss Brand
Uzalo Actress Nyalleng Thibedi Is Set To Launch Her Own Lipgloss Brand. South African actress, model and chemical engineer Nyalleng Thibedi is set to launch her new lip-gloss brand called Princess Nyalleng. She tells Truelove that after obtaining her qualification in chemical engineering, she knew that she wanted to launch her own beauty products and have her own cosmetics line someday.
“When I had just graduated, my dad told me that I’d have to have a niche in what I wanted to do with my qualification,” Thibedi told Truelove. “I had a scholarship from a mining firm and while I was working there, I found out that some of the stuff they use in make-up is actually minerals from underground and I was so fascinated by those raw materials that I got to see. That’s when I realised that this is what I want to venture into eventually.”
Nyalleng decided to launch a lip gloss first because she personally prefers it to lipstick. “I’m a person who pursues things because I like them; I always prefer using lip gloss versus lipstick,” she explained. “As I was deciding on what product to sell first, I asked myself what I liked. And I also noticed that whenever I put something out there that had my lips involved, I got positive reactions so it just made so much sense to put out a product for the lips first.”
“Rejection is a problem in general; when you go to people with an idea, they don’t always meet it with positivity – especially if you’re bold enough to put your name on it,” Thibedi explained. “I’ve found that people get turned off by that and I don’t know why. So I’ve had to really sit with the idea, let it marinate and decide if I was going to go with it this way, considering the rejection I’ve experienced. I’ve heard a lot of NOs and I decided to keep going until I got what I wanted.”
Although the actress does not manufacture the lip gloss herself, she says that her background in chemical engineering helped her to carefully select what would go into the lip gloss and helped her to choose a manufacturer that would produce a high quality product.
