Hello, we're Second Skin.
Founded in 2020, we’re an online consignment store for resale-friendly beauty that has grown alongside our community, helping define how resale beauty works in New Zealand.
“I started Second Skin to give resale-friendly beauty products a second chance.”
After badly reacting to a skincare product I'd researched and read lots of glowing reviews about, I found myself out of pocket with a near-new product I had no use for and didn't know what to do with.
It sat on my bathroom shelf for weeks before I realised that this perfectly good-but-not-for-me product, with all the raving reviews, would be someone else's holy grail. And I likely wasn't the only one to experience this with the vast number of beauty products sold.
So, I started dreaming up a way to safely pass other products like mine onto someone who would love them, and consignment beauty was my answer.
After a lot of research, coffee and establishing robust product criteria, Second Skin was born—an easy and trustworthy platform for selling and shopping for resale-friendly beauty products.
Anastasia,
Founder of Second Skin
How it works
Our Impact
Beauty moves fast and so does its waste.
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Units of beauty packaging have been produced since you arrived on this page.
Each year, the global cosmetics industry produces an estimated 122 billion units of packaging.
Together, we are helping to reduce waste and make better use of what already exists, making the resources used to create it to go just that bit further.
We've built a pretty cool thing. But it's you that powers it.
We call it people-powered circular beauty.
When we launched in September 2020, we started with just 21 products. Now, thanks to you, over 90,000 beauty products have found a second chance through our platform!
It's your support that lets us do what we love and we're only just beginning.