In Bustle’s Beauty Detail, we dive into the beauty bags of our favourite talents for intel on the rituals that keep them glowing and the MVPs (most valuable products) they can't live without. Here, model and influencer Jess Hunt shares the process behind creating her viral Instagram brow brand Refy, and the makeup, skincare, and body bits she always turns to.

The irony of owning a sell-out brow brand is not lost on model, influencer, and Refy founder Jess Hunt. At school she was subject to several mean comments about her barely-there brows. "I really remember people saying 'do you even have eyebrows?'," she tells me. "And now they are my favourite thing ever. It’s crazy how things change."

I wonder what her school friends would think seeing just how quickly Refy's products fly off the virtual shelves every time they're restocked. In the beauty industry, these products are considered total gold dust because, let's face it: we all want brows just like Jess Hunt.

"I’ve always liked super big brows; they've always been my go-to," she explains before delving into the story of how Refy actually came to be. "I was doing my brow process for this shoot and Jenna [Meek, Hunt's business partner and friend] pointed out how many products I used to get them right. We then got talking about what our game-changing brow product would be, which is now our Brow Sculpt."

Since its launch in November last year, Refy has sold out of everything more than once, which came as a total surprise to Hunt. "We forecasted for our original stock to last until May 2021," she laughs. "I was so panicked it wouldn’t sell, but the fact it sold out in six weeks is amazing. It has just blown me away."

And it sounds as though Refy — which Hunt tells me caters to everyone (with its unisex packaging and shades that adapt to different skin tones) — will not be slowing down any time soon. In fact, not only is she in talks with her "dream retailer" for it to be stocked somewhere IRL, she will also be expanding outside of brows sometime soon. "We have so much more coming. I really do want it to be a go-to brand that condenses down your makeup bag."

Can she give us a hint about what's it come? "All I can say is the next collection is going to be all about the skin."

More generally, the Instagram star's relationship with beauty has evolved as a whole in her years on social media, even before Refy launched. "I now love the no-makeup makeup look now. Less really is more, I actually really like seeing skin now!" This is in stark comparison to her school days, she tells me, where she wore concealer on her lips (who didn't?!) and "put on makeup every lunch break and usually ended up with more and more on by the end of the day."

She tells me, "When I was a bit younger, I copied what everyone else was doing really! I suppose that’s what you do at that age. You follow the trends."

Well, these days, Hunt sets her own — and her followers are listening. Here are the six must-have products she can't live without.