Claire McCormack

Bald Head Product Specialist Comprehensive Cranium Care Comes Out On Top At This Year’s Deskside Domination
A bald man bested the competition at Deskside Domination on Tuesday. Comprehensive Cranium Care or C3, a line developed by follicly-challenged founder Adam Fitting to care for hairless heads, won two out of the three...

Restorsea, SpaRitual And Other Indie Favorites Win IBE Best In Show 2018 Awards
Reflecting the range of indie beauty itself, the 28 brands Indie Beauty Media Group revealed today as 2018 Best In Show winners run the gamut from months-old skincare upstart O’o Hawaii to 15-year-old veteran hand and nail...

Would You Pay $1,250 For An Ounce Of CBD Skincare Created By A NASA Engineer? TresMonet Is Betting On it.
CBD skincare is going high tech—and high-priced. TresMonet is launching with Stem+CBD Serum, $1,250-per-ounce product it touts as containing cannabidiol or CBD that’s 20 to 800 times more powerful than other CBD on the market...

BS Detector Estee Laundry Prognosticates About The State Of The Beauty Industry In 2019
In 2018, it wasn’t just scandalous political news that spread like head lice in a kindergarten classroom. In the beauty world, we watched the tone-deaf, thoughtless, underhanded and cantankerous moves of brands, influencers and industry...

20 Bold Indie Beauty Predictions For 2019
This year served up plenty of indie beauty highs (the president signed the Farm Bill into law Thursday to legalize hemp-derived CBD) and lows (remember when minors were working at a organic personal care manufacturer?). The...

When One Door Closes: How Victoria Health Filled The Gap Left By Phylia De M.’s Mysterious Disappearance
It’s a profound heartbreak for beauty enthusiasts when they discover that a beloved beauty product will cease to exist—or already has. For the retailers impacted financially by the disappearance of a cult offering they’ve depended on for sales,...

What The Passage Of The Farm Bill Means (And Doesn’t Mean) For CBD Beauty And Wellness Brands
There was a significant development in beauty’s biggest cause célèbre this week: Congress passed the Farm Bill proposing hemp legalization. If the President signs the legislation, hemp and products with ingredients like CBD...