Pippa O'Connor Ormond: 'You can have it all — just not all at once'

From modelling to motherhood and building one of Ireland’s fastest-growing beauty brands, Pippa O’Connor Ormond talks to Sarah Finnan about business, family life, and why delegation is the real secret to success 

Pippa O'Connor, founder of POCO Beauty

A mainstay in Irish make-up bags, POCO Beauty has grown quickly in the two plus years since it launched.

Their bestseller, Universal Glow Treatment — a tinted, serum-based product with SPF 30 — sold out in just two and a half weeks when it first hit the market. It’s my own holy-grail product, I tell founder Pippa O’Connor Ormond when we sit down to chat in the beautiful office space she has out in Rathcoole. Bright, airy, and impossibly chic, it’s reminiscent of a Kardashian office, and although it doesn’t have an in-built amphitheatre as Kim’s does, it is the perfect place to host staff workshops, shoot content, and plan future launches.