BGM Ventures Secures Controlling Minority Stake In Sara Happ

If Sara Happ isn’t on your lips today, it hopes to be tomorrow. The brand that put lip scrub on the beauty industry map has sold a controlling minority stake to BGM Ventures, a...

What Will Be The “It” Beauty Look Of 2024?

In a recent episode of the “Fat Mascara” podcast, co-hosts Jennifer Sullivan and Jessica Matlin discussed The New York Times article, “Why Culture Has Come To A Standstill.” Written by Jason Farago, the article asks,...

The Travel Retail Opportunity For Emerging Beauty Brands

It’s time for emerging beauty brands to explore travel retail, according to Gebr. Heinemann. One of the largest travel retailers in the world, Hamburg-based Heinemann operates branded shops...

DedCool’s New Fruity Floral Fragrance Sunlit Blooms Launches Exclusively At Sephora

Less than a year after launching at Sephora, DedCool is releasing Sunlit Blooms, a fragrance exclusive to the beauty specialty retailer.  The gender barrier-busting cult-favorite brand worked closely with Sephora to develop the citrus,...

Is Uoma Beauty Unraveling?

Customers are accusing Uoma Beauty, an activist makeup brand dedicated to improving diversity in beauty product assortments and the industry’s halls of power, of not fulfilling orders. In response to an Instagram