The Skin Care Guru Creating Hit Beauty Products for Black Celebrities
Dermatologist Naana Boakye has created new lines for John Legend, Naomi Osaka, and Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union. And she’s just getting started.
Boakye at her Bergen Dermatology practice in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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Dermatologist Naana Boakye gave a Zoom talk during the Covid-19 pandemic that would catapult her career. Martin Ekechukwu, chief strategy officer at Los Angeles-based A-Frame Brands, a holding company founded in 2019 to develop skin-care brands led by celebrities, was in the audience. He felt Boakye’s expertise and background would would make her a perfect fit.
Now the medical director at A-Frame Brands, Boakye has since formulated three Black celebrity-owned skin-care product lines that entered the market in the past two years.