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Tatti Lashes founders: 'We've got four GCSEs between us'

Best friends Charlotte Tiplady and Elliot Barton from Liverpool explain how they built up their Tatti Lashes beauty empire, which specialises in false eyelashes.

Video by Dougal Shaw, Charlotte McDonald and Emmanuella Alausa

30 April 2024

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