{"id":2455951,"date":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322807"},"modified":"2020-03-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:00:00","slug":"snowmass-locals-helps-launch-new-cbd-skincare-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-locals-helps-launch-new-cbd-skincare-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass locals helps launch new CBD skincare line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antedotum luxury CBD skincare<\/strong>
Courtesy photo\/Karina Marconi<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

For Snowmass local Karina Marconi, the past four months have been a whirlwind.<\/p>\n

In November, the former CHANEL account executive and Osvaldo Perez, a renowned makeup artist better known as O.P, did a soft launch of their new CBD skincare line, Antedotum.<\/p>\n

Since then, the longtime friends and business partners have been working tirelessly to perfect their product, consuming all of the knowledge about CBD and its benefits and trying to keep up with demand for their new full-spectrum, proprietary CBD topical complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been telling everyone that it\u2019s been so much work but that if I could create a dream job, this is exactly what it would be,\u201d Marconi said.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, Marconi and her family relocated from Denver to Snowmass Village after falling in love with the Colorado mountains.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s about the same time Marconi joined forces with O.P to help expand his relatively new makeup line, O.P Makeup Studio, which was already being used at major events like the Miss Universe pageant.<\/p>\n

It was the start of a creative, entrepreneurial partnership for the duo and the rekindling of their friendship, which roots back to their days working for CHANEL \u2014 Marconi as the account executive overseeing the Washington D.C. market and O.P as the national makeup artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was just so cute and would love it when I\u2019d do her makeup,\u201d O.P said of Marconi, noting they both had the last name of \u201cPerez\u201d when they first met.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe asked me if I\u2019d do her makeup for her wedding someday and I said yes, but after I left CHANEL I lost track of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, the former colleagues coincidentally ran into each other a few days before Marconi\u2019s wedding, which O.P was able to do Marconi\u2019s makeup for, and they\u2019ve been close ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an incredible human being,\u201d Marconi said of O.P as a person and a 20-year national makeup artist with CHANEL. \u201cNow he really is like a family member.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Marconi joined O.P as a business partner about three years ago, just two years after he launched O.P Makeup Studio, the two did several pop-ups in the Aspen area and began talking about the potential of creating a CBD skincare line.<\/p>\n

Both strive to empower and illuminate the beauty that lies within every person, according to their website, and feel using CBD for skincare adds to that mission.<\/p>\n

While CBD is known for its therapeutic health benefits, Marconi said she, O.P and their customers also have experienced its potential to help reduce brown spots, inflammation and act as an anti-aging supplement.<\/p>\n

\u201cCBD works with our endocannabinoid system so much deeper than anything else out there on the market,\u201d Marconi said.<\/p>\n

Antedotum sold over $50,000 worth of products over the first month-and-a-half of its soft launch, O.P said, and is now being sold at Silverpeak and Local Coffee Shop in Aspen, along with a few locations in Miami.<\/p>\n

The luxury CBD skincare line also has been selected as a finalist for Pure Beauty Global Awards 2020, and is set to launch nationwide by Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re determined to be the first CBD skincare line that\u2019s biodynamic, clean, vegan and effective, that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d O.P said. \u201cWe\u2019re here to educate people and make sure they all understand what CBD can do for their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, O.P, Marconi and her husband Christopher, the third Antedotum team member, have been rotating through a highly selective, 13-week business accelerator program and CBD crash course in Boulder with CanopyBoulder.<\/p>\n

The venture capital group is investing in Antedotum and helping the team perfect everything about their business from cannabis education to product marketing, in preparation for the national launch.<\/p>\n

Once they complete the program and Antedotum\u2019s national launch, O.P and the Marconis have plans to quickly expand, potentially adding a doctor as a chief medical officer and merging O.P Makeup Studio with Antedotum to create a line of CBD-infused cosmetic and skincare products.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to stay true to our cosmetic and beauty background, \u2026 but I do think there are benefits of CBD that we don\u2019t even know and feel it is a wonderful thing for more than the cosmetic industry,\u201d Marconi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not here to jump on some fad or this CBD craze. What we\u2019ve done is tested, tried and true. We want to set standards and create products that will change people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

mvincent@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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