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New British beauty e-marketplace Blusho is shaking up the sector with an unusually democratic retail model that merges user-generated content within an affiliate e-commerce model.

The site allows anyone from professional make-up artists to amateurs to become influencers by sharing images of their work within the community, or participating in themed competitions. However, only top contributors – those deemed by Blusho as having particularly high-quality work – are invited into an elite section on the site where they are able to monetise their content.