Beautypreneur PH | Making Time – Nikki Tang, Founder and CEO of DMark Beauty and DermAsia, Shares with Tatler Her Life Bey­ond This Role | Tatler PH – “I first star­ted DMark Beauty almost 25 years ago,” founder and CEO Nikki Tang recalls. Clad in a green power blazer and a Dion Lee mesh panel skirt, she speaks with assert­ive con­fid­ence. It is easy to for­get that she is a 52-year-old single mother of two boys, to boot. “I entered the emer­ging beauty industry with a vis­ion. Our com­pany aimed to bring in products and devices that are safe, effi­cient and effect­ive.” To sup­ple­ment these efforts, she foun­ded DermAsia to bring in cut­ting-edge tech­no­logy and tech­nical know-how.

“We are very aggress­ive in attend­ing and enga­ging in med­ical events, con­gresses, con­ven­tions and train­ing [pro­grammes],” Tang explains. Her com­pany’s ini­ti­at­ive, Beauty and Bey­ond, tours the coun­try, gath­er­ing lead­ing doc­tors and der­ma­to­lo­gists to share their expert­ise with both peers and con­sumers alike. Mean­while, through Beauty for a Cause, the group sup­ports can­cer aware­ness, well­ness ini­ti­at­ives and found­a­tions that are close to Tang’s heart. “Giv­ing back is not optional—it’s the true meas­ure of suc­cess.” But she is more than just the head of two industry jug­ger­nauts.

“It’s not about a work-life bal­ance,” Tang explains. “It’s work-life integ­ra­tion.” There are pre­cious few moments of pause in her busy sched­ule, so she makes do. “For example, if I have a meet­ing but there hap­pens to be a small win­dow to do other things, I take it. It’s not, ‘Oh, this is a Sat­urday issue or a Monday issue.’ You find time, you make time.”

Tang’s abil­ity to nav­ig­ate through such com­plex­it­ies stems from her dis­pos­i­tion. She con­stantly keeps her­self stim­u­lated with interests filled with intent—even something like a quick power nap. “When you see me like this”, Tang smiles as she pre­tends to fall asleep, “I’m reju­ven­at­ing, pre­par­ing for my next engage­ment.” Just as quickly, she straight­ens her­self. “It’s part of the job. You should know how to com­part­ment­al­ise. You can be emo­tion­ally stricken one day, but if you have a cli­ent call at four in the after­noon, you have to show up.”

Among her pas­sions, which range from piano, journ­alling and pho­to­graphy to travel, it is her pen­chant for shoes—par­tic­u­larly sneak­ers—that stand out. “Air­ports nowadays are huge,” she laughs. “How are you going to walk from end to end in boots or heels?” She has her favour­ite brands, includ­ing a recent one she was cajoled to try by a friend.

Her expres­sion softens when she speaks of her two sons. “Ethan

is very cha­ris­matic, assured,” she remarks. “If I enter a store and have three choices, he helps me decide. But some­times, you already know what you want. You just want val­id­a­tion,” she jokes. “Mal­colm is more thought­ful. Ever since he was three, he was always the ‘no man left behind’ type of per­son.” They bond over food des­pite their dif­fer­ing tastes, and when they travel, Tang empowers them to plan their trips. “It enriches them and it teaches them decision-mak­ing,” she affirms. “I want them to be men of val­ues and char­ac­ter.”

Tang is an indi­vidual who sel­dom stops mov­ing for­ward, be it in busi­ness or life. She can be in a meet­ing in one moment and at a fam­ily gath­er­ing the next, leav­ing in her wake a pas­sion that inspires and uplifts—a pas­sion felt far bey­ond the walls of a board­room. “I’d like DMark Beauty and DermAsia to be remembered as pion­eers that raised the bar for skin­care and aes­thet­ics in the Phil­ip­pines,” she muses. “I want to be remembered as someone who used beauty as a plat­form to inspire con­fid­ence and cre­ate impact. If my jour­ney shows even one woman that she, too, can build something mean­ing­ful—that’s already a leg­acy I’m proud of.”

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