Lady Grey
Harper's Bazaar Australia|May 2017

Hitched as she is to a Hollywood titan, Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey could have slipped into trophy-wife mode seamlessly. But instead, the founder and CEO of Violet Grey is kicking serious beauty goals.

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IF YOU WANT TO CREATE one of the world’s most innovative concepts in luxury beauty, it seems one secret is to rise pre-dawn each day and pray. “I wake up at 5am every morning and I get on my knees and I pray about what I’m grateful for and set intentions for myself,” Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey says. “The act of getting on your knees and praying is really powerful, and I really think it has made a difference in my life.”

Certainly, the beauty gods have answered Huysentruyt Grey’s prayers. Since she founded her Los Angeles-based brand, Violet Grey — a curated selection of beauty products used by Hollywood’s top makeup artists, manicurists, hairdressers and other experts with the tagline “The industry’s beauty edit” — in 2013, she has become one of the most lauded and respected voices in style. With a sumptuous boutique on Melrose Place and an equally lavish online store that combines stunning editorial photography with insider tips and a tightly edited range of premium product, Violet Grey combines old Hollywood glamour with modern technology to extremely seductive effect, beloved by celebrities, stylists and 205,000 Instagram followers alike.

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