Beauty franchise Brazilian Butterfly was named as a finalist for The Quickbooks Award for Best Retailer at the 2008 ActionCOACH My Business Awards in October. Just six years since launching, there are now 20 stores and more than 150 staff.

As well as opening more stores, owner and founder Tanya Farrar has gone on to develop a range of skin lotions, sold under her own label Farrar by Tanya.

Since opening back in 2002 Farrar also notes a change in her clientele. “When we first started our client ratio was about 95 per cent female and only five per cent male. But over the last six years we have noticed a shift in male body image, with now about 80 per cent women and 20 per cent male.”