GLITTER GIRL BOSS OF BOOMING BUSINESS AND SHE’S ONLY 10
Glitter empire brainchild of Gold Coast 10-year-old
SOPHIA Rizzo’s booming glitter business has full-time staff, ambassadors in the US and Britain and is considering signing a deal with a leading music festival.
And it is not even her main job. That is school. In less than 24 months, 10-year-old Sophia has turned Glitter Girl into a lucrative brand selling dozens of orders every week.
SOPHIA Rizzo’s booming glitter business has full-time staff, ambassadors in the US and Britain and is considering signing a deal with a leading music festival.
And it is not even her main job. That is school.
In less than 24 months, 10-yearold Sophia has turned Glitter Girl into a lucrative brand selling dozens of orders every week.
Sophia said the idea for the business came to her during a holiday in Hawaii. “I like unicorns and glitter, and I wanted to share it with my friends,” she said.
Her mother, Megan Rizzo, said although the financial acumen was naturally tougher for Sophia to manage, she’d always had a head for business.
“She came home one day after seeing kids selling slime at school and she said, ‘oh, I could sell glitter’,” Ms Rizzo said.
“So she took all the orders and made it up, put everyone’s name on it and took it all in to school. You had 30 kids all using this glitter.”
Ms Rizzo said her daughter was eager to learn everything about the
business,.
“Every time we get an order, she wants to know how much it was, and how much it’s going to cost us,” she said. “And she keeps a little tally of it, makes me give her a report of how things are going.”
The Burleigh Heads business has grown to the extent that Ms Rizzo has given up her job as a photographer and husband Adam now only works part-time as a property developer.
Glitter Girl, already boasting ambassadors in London and Texas, is looking to hire more staff after being approached by music festival Splendour in the Grass for a collaboration. Products range in price from $4 to $144.
Glitter Girl boasts 83 different glitters, each designed and handpicked by Sophia, who confirmed she does have favourites. “I like the pink and the holographic,” she said.
The biodegradable and vegan glitter is mixed and packaged in their warehouse at Burleigh, with some mixes having as many as four different sizes of glitter.
Despite their growing international market, Ms Rizzo said the company did not plan relocating, wanting to remain a “family Australian business”.