Elizabeth Arden

Florence Nightingale Graham was born in Ontario, Canada in 1884, and dropped out of nursing school in order to join her brother in New York City, originally working as a bookkeeper for a pharmaceutical company. During her time there, she spent hours in their labs learning all about skin care, knowledge which she used to launch her own company under the name Elizabeth Arden, taken from her business partner Elizabeth Hubbard and a Tennyson poem Enoch Arden. Florence travelled to France to learn about beauty techniques, returning with a range of rogues and tinted powders she had created. From these foundations, Elizabeth Arden grew into the cosmetics giant that we now know today.