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Skincare Brand Strange Bird Combines Asian Beauty, Clean Beauty And New Age Rituals
Tina Chow Rudolf has been an actress, painter, social worker, therapist, life coach and beauty blogger. And that’s not all. She’s also a mom of two toddlers, wife, Reiki master, devoted meditator and the entrepreneur behind Strange...
Boom Times Don’t Last Forever. What Should Indie Beauty Brands Do When They’re Over?
It’s been a decade since the last recession ended—and one thing’s true about the next one. It will come. How soon it will come, nobody’s sure. In economic prognostication circles, the optimists are winning out. Forecasters place...
Blk Bot’s Izzy Sapien On Developing Effective Email Marketing Campaigns
Email marketing is cheap and not taking advantage of it to connect with customers can be extremely expensive for brands. “Over a year, automations you set up one time can produce $100,000 in revenue. You have lost that...
With New Brand Solara Suncare’s Clean Formulas, Mineral Sunscreen Usage Doesn’t Come At The Expense Of Good Skincare
While on a beach vacation four years ago, Stephanie DiPisa’s then 8-year-old son Joseph broke out in a terrible rash. “It had gotten so bad that we had to stay out of the sun and in the hotel...
Beauty Backer Is Launching The First Beauty-Specific Crowdfunding Platform
Self-professed amateur inventor Jacqueline Gutierrez wanted to bring her idea for clip-free extensions letting people easily dabble in different colors without damaging their hair to life, but ran into a common problem: money. She estimated it would take...
Rae Co-Founders And Former Target Execs Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl Believe Cool, Effective Supplements Shouldn’t Cost A Ton
Emerging brands like Ritual, Seed, Moon Juice, Goop, WelleCo and The Beauty Chef have transformed the stodgy vitamin segment with chic packaging, sophisticated marketing, clean ingredients and advanced science, but Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl believe...
Vanity Planet’s Alex Dastmalchi Has Gone From Being Smuggled Out Of Iran To Selling Over Two Million Skincare Devices
The status quo in the beauty industry isn’t eternal. At one point, Clarisonic was the king of skincare devices, but upstarts like Vanity Planet have challenged its reign. Powered by influencers such as Bretman Rock, Nikkie de...
