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Adwoa Beauty Set To Launch Prestige Textured Haircare At Sephora
In February 2012, Julian Addo, who’d recently started to watch YouTube videos focused on textured hair, attended a signing in Brooklyn, where the Dallas resident was visiting family, for photographer Michael July’s book, “Afros: A Celebration of Natural...
A Venture Capitalist’s Advice For Beauty And Wellness Startups Navigating The Coronavirus’s Business Impacts
When H Venture Partners portfolio company Kinship, a sustainable and clean skincare brand, premiered a mere five months ago, the country’s economic outlook was much different than it is today. On Thursday, the stock market suffered...
Au Naturale Raises The Bar For Clean Cosmetics At Ulta Beauty
“Au Naturale is both a brand and a cause,” says founder Ashley Prange in a new video for her clean color cosmetics line. Now, Au Naturale is taking its cause to Ulta Beauty, where it’s showing the...
Brand Incubator SLG Brands’ Invisible Dry Shampoo Line Colab Is Becoming Very Visible At Retail With Target, Rite Aid And Walmart Launches
Colab’s signature product won’t be seen in consumers’ hair, but it will be seen on store shelves. The dry shampoo specialist’s invisible formula that’s been a retail blockbuster in its native United Kingdom is traveling to the...
Experiencing A Current Surge, Indie Hand Sanitizer Brands Take A Long-Term Perspective
The global march of the coronavirus has fearful consumers frantically snapping up hand sanitizers at offline and online retailers. COVID-19 has impacted at least 108 countries around the world, infecting more than 153,000 people and resulting in 5,789...
The Circular Economy Is Coming Into Focus At Ulta Beauty With The Launch Of Rising British Brand UpCircle
One business’s trash can be another business’s treasure. That’s the basis for UpCircle, the budding British brand that incorporates coffee grounds collected from cafes and coffee shops around London in scrubs; powder from apricot seeds discarded by...
Fur’s Co-Founders On Their “Shark Tank” Appearance, Retail Markups, Rejections And Publicly Discussing Pubic Hair
On Friday evening, BFFs Laura Schubert and Lillian Tung were discussing pubes on the boob tube—and it wasn’t for premium cable content. The co-founders of Fur, a personal care brand dedicated to breaking taboos around pubic hair...
