Rachel Brown
“How Do We Make This Not A Trend?”: Black Beauty Business Owners Discuss Strategies For Long-Term Success
Amid protests demanding justice for George Floyd’s senseless death and police reforms, the spotlight is shining bright on Black-owned beauty businesses. But the spotlight shouldn’t fade even when the protests pass. “How do we make this not a...
Beauty Industry Insiders Applaud Puig’s Purchase Of Charlotte Tilbury
With a spot of Magic Cream and a slew of famous fans, Charlotte Tilbury is bringing pizzazz to a classy, but staid roster of properties at Puig. The venerable family-owned Spanish fragrance and fashion company with Paco Rabanne,...
Two Indie Beauty Brand Founders Launch Hybrid Retail-Marketing Concept Beautyque NYC To Assist Fellow Entrepreneurs
Prior to the pandemic, Skinergies founder Sylvie Giret and Sunia K. founder Sonia Khemiri planned to open a physical location in New York for the retail-marketing hybrid concept they were creating to offer fellow beauty entrepreneurs...
Sheet Mask Specialist When Brings K-Beauty To Costco Members
Costco isn’t just a place to purchase 64-oz. jars of mayonnaise. It’s increasingly becoming a beauty destination, too. For warehouse club shoppers seeking skincare, When is taking its sheet masks to the company’s over 530 locations across...
Celebrity Makeup Artist Jamie Greenberg On Her Pandemic Pivots, Forthcoming Brand, Monthly Swag Bags And Plastic Surgery
Jamie Greenberg isn’t afraid to show herself on Instagram dancing to Missy Elliott even if it means she makes a fool of herself. In the often-rarefied world of celebrity makeup artistry, her openness about the regular stuff...
How Freck Overcame Jimmy Kimmel’s Jokes, A Kickstarter Campaign Flop And Bad Business Deal To Celebrate Quirky Beauty
On Nov. 18, 2015, Freck Yourself, a brand attempting to raise $215,000 on Kickstarter to manufacture a kit containing 72 self-adhesive stencils and an ink-filled rollerball that slid across them to create fake freckles, was mocked on “Jimmy...
As The Pandemic Persists, Many Cosmetic Manufacturers Struggle
With global beauty sales on the upswing, the American cosmetic manufacturing sector was sitting pretty at the beginning of the year. New companies had popped up to serve indie beauty brands, and their growing antecedents were angling...
