Topicals Founder Olamide Olowe Grapples Publicly With Bread Beauty Supply’s Future
After building Topicals into one of beauty’s biggest skincare success stories, founder Olamide Olowe is learning that turning around an existing brand can be much harder than creating one from scratch. In a candid TikTok...
Italian Trade Agency And Beauty Independent Spotlight Italian Beauty Brands In New York
With annual beauty and personal care sales exceeding $100 billion, the United States is the world’s largest beauty market, offering significant opportunities as well as considerable challenges for emerging international brands. To support the...
California Naturals Raises Series B To Expand Distribution And Categories
California Naturals believes there’s space in the market for another big, better-for-you family-friendly brand spanning multiple categories, and new funding is giving it the ammunition to become one. Started in 2023 by Playa...
Olive Young Has Landed. Now The Battle For K-Beauty Retail Gets Real.
American beauty shoppers have spoken: They want K-beauty. The question that isn’t settled is where they want to buy it. CJ Group-owned Olive Young, South Korea’s dominant beauty retailer with 1,380 stores and $4.2 billion in sales,...
Poom Cosmetics Founder Irene Ham On The Rewards And Risks Of Building In Public
A year ago, Poom Cosmetics founder Irene Ham posted a TikTok video showing herself wiring $30,000 to an overseas manufacturer, effectively draining her savings account to fund the brand’s first inventory order. For many beauty founders, the...
