Inge Theron is a London-based South African, a skincare specialist, former radio personality,

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and

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. She is mostly known for her brand FaceGym which she founded in 2015.

Biography and career

Theron grew up in

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

and

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

with her mother who was a travel guide and historian. She completed her education from

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. She moved to London during 1994 to study journalism and started to work at

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, hosting a radio show. She then moved to

Virgin Radio Virgin Radio launched in the United Kingdom in 1993. In 2008, Virgin Radio UK was sold to TIML, a subsidiary of The Times of India group, and the name was changed to Absolute Radio; the Virgin Radio name was not included in the sale. In 2001, ...

where she worked with Chris Evans. Theron then moved further and worked for

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and finally commenced a branding agency of her own. In 2008, Theron co-founded Hollywood Domino, with actress Daya Fernandez. The concept of Hollywood Domino is based on a 400 years old Chinese Game which Theron and Fernandez reinvented. Theron then moved to

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and consequently under mentorship of Gillian de Bono, started her column ''Chronicles of a Spa Junkie'' in the

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. During her time as the columnist, Theron travelled across the world including Mexico,

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, Japan, Turkey and

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to work with the local tribes to explore traditional and indigenous skincare mechanisms. She also provided consultancy through her agency ITANDA for the Spa Designing during that time, which included implementation of spa studios of Grace Belgravia of Henri Chenot, Faena Miami, Bulgari Hotel London etc.

FaceGym

In 2015, Theron founded FaceGym, a skincare brand which aims to utilize the concept of 'workout' and 'muscle manipulation' to the face in order to give it a better appearance. Facegym was launched in 2015, opening a concession in

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, London. In December 2016, it opened its first standalone store in

Kings Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both ...

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, England. In May 2018, Theron's Facegym opened a concession in Saks, New York City and in January 2019, its first standalone in the US, in

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. As of March 2021, Facegym has its stores at 6 locations in the UK and five in the United States.

References

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