Glamcor

Glamcor is a United States beauty-technology company that designs and manufactures lighting products for professional artists and content creators. It was founded in 2010 by Erik A. Kaiser and Wanchen Kaiser [3], and is held by the US entity Glamcor Global LLC, of which Erik Kaiser serves as chief executive and founder [4]. The company keeps a corporate office in New York and a distribution centre in California, while its products are built at a facility it owns in Shenzhen, China.

The brand's focus is narrow by design: portable LED lighting for makeup artists, lash, brow and permanent-makeup artists, tattoo artists, and the people who film or photograph their work. A separate consumer line of lighted vanity mirrors is sold under the sister brand Riki Loves Riki, giving the company a dual-brand structure that addresses both the professional trade and home buyers.

Glamcor traces its beginning to the aftermath of the 2009 recession. According to the trade publication Beauty Independent, founder Erik Kaiser lost his construction company in the downturn and then identified a gap in the market for standardised, durable, portable professional lighting [3]. He moved to China to study LED-lighting technology, and the company says it has stayed with that founding vision since 2010.

Beauty Independent reports that Kaiser put roughly $200,000 of personal savings into the venture, and that the first products reached the market in February 2011 — about a year of design and manufacturing [3]. The direction narrowed early: at the company's first trade show, customers showed interest only in the lighting component, which prompted a pivot to become exclusively a lighting business. The publication notes that sales began to climb after professionals in the eyelash-extension industry adopted the products.

The company operates under Glamcor Global LLC, a US limited-liability company founded in 2010, with Erik Kaiser as chief executive and founder [4]. Erik and Wanchen Kaiser are described as married co-owners [3]. The professional Glamcor range and the consumer-facing Riki Loves Riki mirror line are run as sister brands within the same business.

Glamcor describes itself as "a logic-driven lighting company" that pairs technology with a sleek design aesthetic to solve lighting problems for artistic professionals [1]. Its stated mission is to be the leading brand designing and manufacturing lighted products for artisans, and it uses the tagline "Everything. Gets Well Lit."

A recurring theme in the company's own account is control of its supply chain. Glamcor says it owns and operates its manufacturing facility in Shenzhen — which it calls a hub of the LED supply chain — so that it can guarantee the quality and durability of its products, and states that it employs staff in China, Malaysia and the United States who build and test each unit before shipping [1]. The company also points to round-the-clock customer support and a policy of repairing or replacing faulty lighting free of charge.

The company's signature product sits on the consumer side: the Riki Skinny lighted vanity mirror, sold under Riki Loves Riki and described in trade coverage as the company's number-one product and its most popular item across both brands [3]. On the professional side, Glamcor's catalogue spans LED lighting kits, vanity mirrors, content-creation tools and accessories.

More recently the company has promoted a Pro LED Light Therapy device, which it markets as the world's first all-in-one professional LED lighting and LED-therapy unit and describes as FDA-cleared [2]. These are the brand's own claims; the homepage also lists Allure, PopSugar, The Cut and InStyle as publications it has been featured in, presented as self-stated media credits rather than independently verified articles.

Glamcor sells through multiple channels: direct-to-consumer e-commerce in the United States, which Beauty Independent reports accounts for about 25% of revenue, alongside international distribution deals and retail partnerships [3]. Accounts of its geographic reach differ slightly: the company states it has verified distributors in 85 countries [1], while Beauty Independent records customers in 83 countries [3] — a small discrepancy likely reflecting different reporting dates.

Glamcor remains active. It runs a live e-commerce storefront with current product lines and maintains active Instagram, TikTok and YouTube channels, with visible activity recorded into 2026 [2]. The business is US-headquartered, manufactures in Shenzhen, and distributes internationally.