mr fabio
@fffabs
Principal Designer turned cosmetics formulator ✰ Founder of 🪽Moumoujus Skin🪽
I did a thing. Today is my last day as a full-time employee. After working as a principal designer for large corporations, I left my six-figure salary job to start my skincare brand. It's a passion project that started almost two years ago, using my evenings and weekends…
A few years ago I worked for a huge tech company that had these types of offices. I was an external contractor but I spent time there weekly. 90% did almost nothing. Most days were spent in meetings, eating, playing and just socialising. Many stayed late to eat their dinner.
If you work at Roblox, or another Big Tech firm, its like adult daycare
I’ve got my lab tests back and I can start selling my product! ✨ Beauty products sold in Europe need to go through rigorous testing that take 3 months to stress test. The product will go through phases of higher and lower temperatures to see how the preservatives system and…
Secondary packaging has arrived. It’s beginning to look a lot more polished. ✨
As I was going through the huge box of tubes for my skincare brand, I’ve noticed a little artefact on the logo. It’s not a big deal as the logo is tiny (but I am a perfectionist and this bothered me). The manufacturer was very kind to offer free replacement but it would be a…
Me when I open Figma after a week and I see all the comments my colleagues left.
I’ve had to improvise by making my own product shots. I have no lighting or proper equipment but it’ll have to do for now 🫠
New packaging has arrived. Doing a mini launch next week as some ingredients won’t be ready for another six weeks. One thing I’ve learnt is that in this industry everything takes time. Lab tests 12 wks. Ingredients 6 wks. Packaging 4 wks.
Final packaging for Moumoujus has arrived from the factory. That feeling of touching something you designed is indescribable.
I've been toying with Midjourney retexturing and video generation, plus Elevenlabs voiceovers to make videos like this for my skincare socials. With a bit more time and editing you can get some pretty cool results.
The best feeling of leaving corporate is knowing I don’t have to use Teams and Zoom daily.
Going self funded on Moumoujus means I have full control of what I create, from the ingredients I put in it to the coating of the final plastic container. I could have done it the easy way: glass jars, printed sticky labels off-the-shelf formula, but it wouldn’t have felt the…
