Too Smart For This.

Too Smart For This.

Smart Girls Don't Just Go Viral, They Go the Distance

4AM Skin's Sabrina Sade and Jade Beguelin on Clean Sheets, a $4M raise, 1,800 Target doors, and the five-year build the internet is about to call an overnight success.

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Alexis Barber
May 15, 2026
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The spring I moved to New York, a girl I may or may not still be friends with was blowing up my phone with a Partiful for a skincare brand’s launch party. But this one wasn’t squeezed into a 6 to 8pm slot at a Soho boutique like the rest of them. The company was already in Vogue, the party was at a nightclub, and the brand was 4AM Skin.

I didn’t go. At t…

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