Suzi Weiss-Fischmann (born 1956) is a Hungarian-American businessperson. She is the co-founder of
OPI Products (Odontorium Products Inc.) with her brother-in-law George Schaeffer. Weiss-Fischmann is a second-generation
Holocaust survivor born in
Hungary
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and the author of the book ''I'm Not Really a Waitress''. The name of her book refers to one of Weiss-Fischmann's most well known nail colors. The color, which Weiss-Fischmann named, was inducted into
Allure's Beauty Hall of Fame in 2011 and won the Best Nail Polish award nine times.
Biography
Weiss-Fischmann grew up in communist Hungary and came to the United States as a teenager. She first lived in
New York
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before moving to
Southern California
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in the 1980s.
In
California
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, she started working for her brother-in-law who had purchased a dental supply company, Odontorium Products Inc. in 1981.
Weiss-Fischmann started working in sales for the company.
In 1987, Weiss-Fischmann felt that there were not enough color choices for nails on the market.
She is known as the "First Lady of Nails" after creating the OPI nail lacquers starting in 1989. OPI was sold to
Coty, Inc.
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in 2010 for close to $1
billion.
Weiss-Fischmann was named to
Jewish Women International's board of trustees in 2012.
References
External links
Further reading
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Meet the Hungarian Jewish woman behind the world’s largest luxury nail brand by Alex Gabinski, ''Jewish News'' (Aug 29, 2019)
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by Jane Larkworthy, ''New York Magazine'' (April 19, 2019)
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Local Color by Kate M. Jackson, ''Boston Globe'' (Aug 4, 2005)
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American cosmetics businesspeople
American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Living people
20th-century Hungarian businesspeople
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Hungarian Jews
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
20th-century American businesspeople
American women company founders
American company founders
20th-century American Jews
Place of birth missing (living people)
1956 births
21st-century American Jews