Faye Brookman
Despite Omicron, Beauty Service Providers Forecast A Major Recovery Ahead
For a beauty services sector on an uphill trajectory prior to Omicron, the highly contagious variant is viewed as a setback, albeit one that brings enormous suffering, on the road to revival. Although rampant, the diminished severity of...
Unpacking The Future Of The Subscription Beauty Box Business
The beauty subscription box business boomed last year after the pandemic spread worldwide. With stores closed and people hunkered down in quarantine, home delivery of beauty products became a crucial vehicle for sampling. FabFitFun’s 2020 revenues soared...
Supply Chain Chaos Looks Like It Will Make The Holiday Season Less Bright For Beauty Brands—And Continue Into 2022
Kinks in the supply chain continue to hamstring the beauty industry, bringing delayed launches, reworked production schedules, expensive air freight, threat of higher prices, squeezed margins and the potential of holiday shortages with them. Alicia Yoon, founder and...
Hyperpigmentation Doesn’t Just Occur On The Face. Forgotten Skincare Tackles Its Presence On The Body.
Avocado pits seeded the idea for Forgotten Skincare. Alex Pottash, who grew up with entrepreneurial parents and was always drawn to launching a business, sought to reconstruct DIY grounded avocado pit body scrubs her mom used to...
Can Celebrity Beauty Brands Today Escape Pitfalls That Led To The Great Celebrity Fragrance Bust Of The 2010s?
It seems to be a daily occurrence that a known personality jumps into the beauty ring with a fragrance, skincare or cosmetics line. Last week, Jennifer Aniston revealed her new haircare brand LolaVie. Ariana Grande’s R.E.M. Beauty...
A Whiff Of What’s Happened And To Come In The Fragrance Category
Gucci’s The Alchemist’s Garden A Chant for the Nymph, Tom Ford’s Black Orchid Parfum and Arquiste’s Misfit were among the winners of this year’s The Fragrance Foundation awards held virtually on June 10. The notes in the...
Verb (Re)Enters Ulta Beauty Ready For Action
Riding powerful tailwinds from a 91% year-over-year sales gain to date in 2021, Verb Hair Care is ready to enter Ulta Beauty. The 10-year-old brand went live on Ulta’s website early in May along with endcaps in...
