Why we built stipple.

We built stipple because buying secondhand beauty in the UK was a leap of faith. Listings on the big resale platforms were a free-form photo grid — a single blurry shot, no fill level, no batch code, no way to know what you were actually getting. Returns were a fight. Disputes went nowhere.

The idea was simple: what if every listing on a resale platform looked the same? Four standardised photo slots — face, label, condition, extra. Fill level declared on every opened product. Batch visible in the label photo. Size, shade, and expiry collected at the point of listing. Not optional, not nice-to-have. Just how it works, for every item, every time.

Checkout goes through Stripe. Payment holds until the buyer confirms receipt — 48 hours, then auto-releases. Sellers get paid the full listed price, no hidden fees on the buyer side that make the “deal” disappear at checkout.

That's stipple. A secondhand beauty marketplace built around honest listings and a simple protection mechanic that actually works.