What Kris Jenner Really Thought About Kylie's Makeup Business

Kris and Kylie Jenner

Unlike the rest of her fanbase, momager extraordinaire Kris Jenner wasn't always sold on Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics.

During a new interview conducted by Jennifer Lawrence, the makeup mogul spilled the deets on building her empire "from the ground up" after the Hunger Games alum pointed out, "a lot of people think that influence makes everything easier, but a lot of times it can obviously be a hindrance."

Jenner agreed, noting that "proving people wrong was a challenge." She teamed up with her mother, but neither had any experience in creating a makeup line and no idea where to start. At the beginning, she said Kris "thought I was going to be stuck with lip kits in my garage for the rest of my life."

They started off with the minimum of each color: 5,000. “You better be ready, Kylie, because you might have a lot of lip kits in your garage for the rest of your life," she recalled her mother advising. "...you better love these colors.”

But, as Lawrence pointed out, Jenner all but broke the internet with the launch, creating a brand new problem for the duo.

"Okay, how do we do this? How do we make these faster and better?" they pondered, heading out on a road trip all across the state to meet with manufacturers and visit potential factories. Finding the right one, she said, "was difficult."

As a new company, "growing in front of a lot of people was hard." She explained, "You don’t have room to make mistakes. But it wasn’t a bad thing. It was so successful and it was the best time of my life."

Now, she's dipping her toes into the fashion world, where her mother's former worries may be better expended.

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