LA TECH WEEK WITH TRIPLE EIGHT CREATIVE
BEAUTY DISCOVERY HAS LEFT THE COUNTER.
Two days.
One beauty discovery ecosystem.
Beauty discovery no longer happens in one place.
It happens through founders, beauty professionals, technology, hospitality, community, products, and the spaces where people are already deciding how they want to show up.
For LA Tech Week, Triple Eight Creative is bringing those pieces together through two connected experiences.
Monday, we meet in person.
Tuesday, we go Beyond the Counter.
Start wherever you are.
DAY ONE
The New Beauty Counter is the physical entry point into the T8C beauty discovery ecosystem.
Come discover founders, explore your Signature Beauty, meet Char, and make one useful connection before transitioning into the Black LA Tech Week kickoff.
This is not a traditional beauty counter.
It is a place to discover what fits, who you should know, and what beauty can look like when product, technology, expertise, and community work together
WHILE YOU’RE HERE
Discover your Signature Beauty.
Take the Signature Glam or Skin Style experience and find the beauty language that feels most like you.
Make one useful connection.
Join the Beauty Tech Exchange, powered by ALINE, and meet someone whose work, perspective, or expertise could genuinely move yours forward.
Founder Discovery
Meet two of the founders helping shape Monday’s experience
Explore Stronger StrandZ, Artists MGMT x TCA, and discover the people and ideas shaping what beauty looks like next.
Jennifer Mahogony | Founder, Stronger StrandZ®
Jennifer Mahogony founded Stronger StrandZ®, an education-first textured hair care brand built on clarity, consistency, and helping people better understand their strands.
With hands-on experience across professional hair environments, including television and real-world styling, Jennifer created Stronger StrandZ after seeing how often people had products but lacked the education, tools, and techniques needed to build a routine that actually worked. Her approach combines hair care education, thoughtfully developed products, and practical tools designed to make textured hair care feel more intentional and less overwhelming.
Her philosophy is simple: the goal is not to change your hair, but to understand it well enough to care for it with confidence.
Keshia Smith | Founder
Artists MGMT x TCA
Keshia is the founder of Artists MGMT x TCA, a hybrid artist management and beauty production agency representing hair, makeup, grooming, and beauty professionals while building fully managed teams for entertainment, brands, and production companies.
Her work sits at the intersection of talent development, education, and production, helping artists grow their careers while giving clients a more seamless way to build and manage beauty teams from brief through execution.
For artists, she builds careers. For clients, she builds teams. For productions, she helps solve the beauty staffing process.
DAY TWO
BEYOND THE COUNTER
Digital Discovery Edition
Tuesday, October 13
Live online
Yesterday we experienced beauty discovery.
Today we unpack what is happening underneath it.
Join Jade McCrary and Triple Eight Creative founder Chardé Smith Anglin for a live conversation about how beauty discovery is changing, where AI belongs, why the beauty professional still matters, and what happens when beauty moves into hospitality, technology, community, and customer experience.
The conversation will include a live demonstration of Signature Beauty and Char, T8C’s AI beauty concierge.
Watch from wherever you are.
The livestream and replay will live here once available. Tuesday is a digital experience, and there is no in-person gathering at the previously planned West Hollywood location.
START WITH YOU
FIND YOUR
SIGNATURE BEAUTY
Before we recommend a product, routine, or service, we want to understand how you want to experience beauty.
Take the Signature Glam or Skin Style experience and discover the starting point for your Beauty Trinity, product choices, routines, and next look.
Your results are not the end.
They are the context.
Lead with your Core.
Personalize with your Moon.
Let your Rising shape how you show up.
Beauty Trinity.
Take the Signature Glam Test. Discover your Core, Moon, and Rising — then build your Fall Edit around them.
Signature Glam path — 5 styles, full Beauty Trinity result
Skin Style path — 4 styles, routine-first results
Drop your name and email — we'll send your Beauty Trinity result straight to your inbox.
Your Fall Edit result is almost here.
Lead with your Core. Personalize with your Moon. Let your Rising shape how you show up.
Seasonal beauty notes, Prep / Polish / Signature ideas, product discovery, and guidance for building your signature this fall.
Get The September IssueBook Your Fall Edit Services
You've found your Beauty Trinity. Your Fall Edit continues inside Inner Circle — deeper recommendations, Char prompts, seasonal product notes, event access, and beauty guidance based on your result. Take your Beauty Trinity into Char for a more personalized Fall Edit overview — save your results and share them when you start your Char session.
✓ You're now part of Inner Circle Free. Your Beauty Trinity and Fall Edit access are confirmed.
Upgrade for deeper guidance, event access + Char anytime →Lead with your Core. Personalize with your Moon. Let your Rising shape how you show up.
Seasonal beauty notes, Prep / Polish / Signature ideas, product discovery, and guidance for building your signature this fall.
Get The September IssueYou've found your Skin Style. Your Fall Edit continues inside Inner Circle — deeper recommendations, Char prompts, seasonal product notes, event access, and guidance based on your result. Take your Skin Style into Char for a more personalized Fall Edit overview — save your results and share them when you start your Char session.
✓ You're now part of Inner Circle Free. Your Skin Style and Fall Edit access are confirmed.
Upgrade for deeper guidance, event access + Char anytime →
YOUR RESULT WAS THE INTRODUCTION MEET
NEED A PLACE TO START?
Use these prompts in Char after you get your beauty overview
The Quick Refresh
“Using my Signature Beauty results, help me create a polished look with products I already own.”
The Product Match
“Based on my results, what should I look for when choosing my next beauty product?”
Prep, Polish + Signature
“Build my personalized Prep, Polish and Signature routine.”
The Next Look
“Turn my Signature Beauty results into a look for my next event, meeting, or night out.”
The Skin Check
“Using my Skin Style, help me build a simple routine for my current concerns.”
BEAUTY TECH EXCHANGE
POWERED BY ALINE
Networking does not have to mean collecting as many contacts as possible.
For LA Tech Week, we are asking you to make one useful connection.
Meet someone whose work, idea, experience, or perspective could genuinely move yours forward.
Monday’s guided speed networking is powered by ALINE and designed to help you quickly understand who is in the room before open networking begins.
YOUR
LA TECH WEEK MATCH
Before the week ends, make one move.
Follow up.
Share the resource.
Schedule the call.
Make the introduction.
Then tell us who you met, why the connection mattered, and what you are doing next.
BEYOND THE COUNTER
THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES
Beauty has more places to be discovered than ever.
But more access has not always created more understanding.
Beyond the Counter explores what happens when discovery begins with the customer instead of the product.
How do we use technology without removing the human layer?
How do beauty professionals remain part of the discovery journey?
How can brands, hotels, retailers, wellness spaces, and communities make beauty feel more personal instead of more overwhelming?
And what happens when beauty meets people where they already are?
This is the conversation behind the experience.
After the livestream, the replay will be available here so you can return to it anytime.
The founder conversation will cover how beauty discovery has moved beyond the traditional counter, how Signature Glam and Skin Style create customer context, how Char translates that context into personalized guidance, and why professional expertise remains essential.
STAY IN THE T8C WORLD
The LA Tech Week experience does not have to end when the room closes or the stream ends.
If you came for beauty, continue through Signature Beauty, Char, The Fall Edit, and Inner Circle.
If you came as a founder, brand, hotel, beauty professional, technologist, investor, or potential partner, stay connected to the conversations and opportunities we are building across beauty, technology, hospitality, and customer experience.
Beauty is the lens. Consideration is the standard.
BEAUTY DISCOVERY HAS LEFT THE COUNTER.
It is happening in the rooms where people gather.
In the technology helping them make decisions.
In the professionals they trust.
In the products they discover.
In the connections they make.
And in the moments when they are deciding how they want to show up next.
Welcome to the Beauty Layer.
Show Up Beautifully.
Triple Eight Creative
MEET THE FOUNDER
Chardé Smith Anglin is the founder of Triple Eight Creative, a beauty and experience company building at the intersection of beauty, hospitality, community, and technology.
With more than 20 years across beauty, retail, artistry, education, events, and customer experience, Chardé has spent her career understanding how people discover products, prepare for important moments, and make decisions about how they want to show up.
Through Triple Eight Creative, she is building systems and experiences that make beauty feel more personal, more useful, and more considered. That work includes 888 Partnerships, Signature Glam, Char, and live experiences designed around a simple belief: beauty should be part of the customer journey, not an afterthought.
Her work explores what happens when professional expertise, technology, hospitality, and human connection are designed to work together.
Whether you are here to explore a partnership, invite Chardé to speak, connect for press, develop a hospitality activation, or start a future collaboration, this is the place to begin.
MEET OUR PARTNERS
The New Beauty Counter and Beyond the Counter are part of a larger week of ideas, founders, technology, beauty, and connection across Los Angeles.
We are grateful to the partners helping us create space for those conversations and helping guests discover what else is happening throughout the week.
BLACK LA TECH WEEK
Black LA Tech Week creates space for Black founders, technologists, investors, creatives, and community leaders to connect across Los Angeles.
DISBEAUTÉ
DisBeauté is helping extend the conversation beyond the room.
Built for beauty education, discovery, streaming, and connection, DisBeauté brings educators, artists, brands, and professionals into one connected beauty ecosystem. They will support the digital home for Beyond the Counter, helping the conversation live beyond the livestream itself. Disbeaute
Watch. Learn. Discover. Connect.
LA TECH WEEK
LA Tech Week, presented by a16z, brings together founders, investors, operators, builders, and communities across Los Angeles for a full week of events and conversations.
Triple Eight Creative’s two-day experience lives inside that larger ecosystem, with The New Beauty Counter on Monday and Beyond the Counter on Tuesday.
LA Tech Week runs October 12 through October 18, 2026. Tech Week
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