In the interest of full disclosure, Beautiful Freak Owner, DJ & Elder Goth Extrodinare Avril Korman and I go back a long time! We were childhood friends growing up in The Bronx, New York and reconnected right as she got her RL Goth Cosmetics line going and it’s really taken off! Super proud of her efforts and her ethics.
Her high quality products are handcrafted, cruelty free, hypoallergenic, made in the USA by Goths for anyone! I support her efforts running a small, female owned and operated business that celebrates the Goth community and is just plain funky! She broke her business down to me in her own words below!
“Beautiful Freak began as a virtual cosmetics brand in Second Life in 2011. The idea at the time was to create gothy cosmetics, made by members of the RL goth community to fill a gap in the market.
We stopped creating new products in SL in the summer of 2015. A year later, a photo on instagram got me thinking about how we could just transition to making real life products. We put our very first test product out for Halloween of 2016.
In the spring of 2017 we asked people what kind of products they wanted from us and were surprised to find that people overwhelmingly wanted soap (we didn’t expect that….) so we created an indiegogo to fund it. That indiegogo blew through four stretch goals, netting over 200% of its original funding request
Normal is overrated. Almost everyone (other than our webmistress) who works with and for us are full time members of the goth community and all our products (all of them) are named after songs (not all are goth tracks- we do a fair bit of industrial and darkwave/futurepop stuff too.) . But the point is the same – by goths, for everybody. We understand we are never going to be a mainstream company. We’re happy with that.
Beautiful Freak does several charity products each year (we did this in Second Life also – we’ve always done it.), supporting charities large and small. These include (annually) The Sophie Lancaster Foundation for World Goth Day, and Bat World Sanctuary for Halloween. as well as various charities throughout the year. many of them animal related.
All our products are hand poured and all our scents and flavors are hand blended. Every bar of soap we make is unique.
We can guarantee gothmas delivery for all orders placed before December 7. After that, we’ll try, but no promises*” Check her site or write her about deadlines & delivery dates she’s super attentive and will work with you.
So if you’re into a unique Gothmas gift idea or you want to try something new?
Visit Beautiful Geek website http://beautifulfreakcosmetics.com follow on a Instagram and Facebook
All Art – Beautiful Freak