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The beauty industry has grown exponentially: according to a forecast by Orbis Research, the global cosmetic industry is expected to be worth over $805bn by 2023. This impressive statistic reflects not just the savvy pioneers of the industry – including Florence Nightingale Graham who founded Elizabeth Arden in 1910s, Josephine Esther Mentzer, who founded Estée Lauder in 1946, as well as Jo Malone, Charlotte Tilbury and Sylvie Chantecaille – but also today’s tech-savvy entrepreneurs. Beauty is now an inclusive community. Rather than telling women what they need, many brands are founded on asking women what they want. This is a key factor in Emily Weiss’s vision for the quirky, fun and affordable Glossier startup, which disrupted the traditional cosmetics industry business model and has set a new blueprint for success. Word-of-mouth on social media built awareness; Weiss often talks about the “democratisation” of beauty. Others have had more personal reasons for launching brands – such as Bobbi Brown, whose latest venture is Jones Road Beauty. Brown says, “One thing I’ve learned as an entrepreneur is that if you wait for the perfect time to do anything, nothing happens. I don’t wait, I create.” Suffice to say we can learn a lot from these women, who have not just created best-selling brands but beautiful homes reflecting their success and style.

Victoria Beckham

The founder of VB Beauty (now owned by Lauder) has called her family “a travelling circus” as she herds them between homes in the Cotswolds, Miami and their grand £31m Holland Park mansion in London, pictured.

Christine d’ Ornano

The president of phyto-cosmetology brand Sisley Paris and contemporary art collector believes, “There’s no point in having a beautiful house [hers is in Notting Hill, London] if you don’t enjoy it to the full.”

Bobbi Brown

Bobbi Brown left her cosmetics company to turn a former grand residence in need of repair into a boutique hotel, the George Inn, in her home town of Montclair, New Jersey which she renovated with her husband, Steven Plofker. “We wanted to create a comfy and relaxed yet cool and hip spot.”

Clara Molloy

Creative director and co-founder with her Irish husband John of niche fragrance lines Hermetica, Memo Paris, and Floraïku, the Parisian-Catalan poet Clara Molloy confesses that her home smells like “a mix of cat and dog and mud from the kids.”

Jennifer Aniston

A-lister Aniston describes her LolaVie haircare range as “effective, smart and unfussy” rather like her mid-century Bel Air mansion which was transformed into a zen den by interior designer Stephen Shadley. “If I wasn’t an actress, I’d want to be a designer,” she has said. “There’s something about picking out fabrics and finishes that feeds my soul.”

Jamie Lupton

The New Zealander describes her Auckland home as “modern, bright and serene”. Her love of interiors was shaped by her background in luxury PR and time spent in Sydney before co-founding the buzzy Monday haircare brand.

Yasmin Sewell

Wellness is now the focus of the Australian-Lebanese former fashion buyer at Browns and cofounder of Être Cécile. Her home in Dalston, East London, is as mood-boosting as her wellbeing brand Vyrao, built on the Japanese phrase kuuki wo yomu, which means “reading the atmosphere”.