Lexy Lebsack
Squeezed Before The Writers And Actors’ Strikes, Hollywood Makeup Artists And Hairstylists’ Struggles Mount As They Drag On
To outsiders, Hollywood’s shutdowns began on May 2, when the Writers Guild of America initiated its strike, then escalated on July 14 when SAG-AFTRA joined the picket lines with similar demands such as greater residuals from streaming and...
What Does The Lawsuit Against Fearless Fund Mean For Efforts To Support Black Beauty Founders?
After a significant win in the United States Supreme Court in June striking down affirmative action in college admissions, a conservative leader that set the wheels in motion for the demise of affirmative action in...
What Really Happens To Returned Beauty Products?
If 2023 ends up anything like the past two years, consumers could return more than $816 billion worth of merchandise purchased from American retailers, cementing an ongoing problem the beauty industry is quietly grappling with: What’s...
What Does Being “Black-Owned” Mean In 2021?
In late May 2020, in the midst of the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd, gaping racial disparities in COVID-19 care and deaths, and economic uncertainty, fashion designer Aurora James was social distancing...
What Does America’s Shrinking Middle Class Mean For The Beauty Industry?
In journalist Fareed Zakaria’s book, “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” The Washington Post columnist and host of CNN show “GPS” muses over the ways COVID-19 has forever changed the world, from people’s relationship to work and technology...
How Beauty Brands Are Riding The Wave Of At-Home Workouts
Following the 1918 influenza pandemic, mounting interest in socialized medicine bolstered public health programs worldwide and a fascination with alternative medicine sent people searching for remedies outside of Western doctors’ offices. It’s likely the impacts of the...
How Protective Styling Salon Concept Naza Beauty Survived A Year Of Lockdowns
On Feb. 22, 2020, Natanya Montgomery held the grand opening of Naza Beauty, her hotly anticipated protective styling salon concept designed for Black and brown women, and located in San Francisco’s trendy Mission District. “We...
