Garey was on board with Bellissima International from day one, working closely as an adviser / partner to Marnie and John Hadley (the CEOs of Bellissima International). The three complemented each other beautifully; with a combined industry experience of over 50 years, Marnie and Garey’s exceptional style and John’s business knowhow, the future was looking bright to say the least. Thankfully Garey was a whirlwind, much like myself, and once he had an idea or a plan in his head he ran with it at full steam. I say thankfully as he choose to launch Bellissima in the UK slightly prematurely, booking the last available stand at the 2009 Oct beauty show, purchasing the furniture for the stand on the journey there and launching Bellissima in unlabelled pots. Of course despite the appearance of the pots at that time it sold out straight away. Garey’s hard work for 9 long months had paid off, countless 20-hour days getting ready for the launch and many missed social occasions had all been worth it. It was actually only 10 days after the exhibition that Garey sadly passed away. He didn’t have an obvious cause of death, so it has always been my theory that the angels needed him for something very important elsewhere and didn’t have time to make up an excuse to take him from us. I say I’m thankful that he was a whirlwind and the main reason for that is I have now been running Bellissima in the UK and Europe for Garey since Jan 2010 so I have had the pleasure and privilege of seeing it grow. I feel this is something that was taken from Garey and for that I am extremely saddened. I am thrilled however that he got to see the success Bell created in just those 10 days, both at the show and after.
