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Holly Harding Returns To Beauty With High-End Brand O’o Hawaii And A Healthy Approach
If you had a second crack at a beauty business, what would you do differently? Holly Harding is attempting not to let professional aspirations diminish her wellbeing as she embarks on O’o Hawaii, a premium skincare brand launching...
Couple Goals: Greg And Joanne Starkman Interweave Family With Business Fearlessness To Build Innersense
Greg and Joanne Starkman are the dynamic duo of natural hair care. Their superpowers are staying together while leading the beauty brand Innersense and persuading salon professionals that going green is good business. Twenty-two years into their...
Kensington Apothecary Takes A Stand Against Facebook And Logs Off The Social Media Network
Kensington Apothecary and Valentina’s Naturals are no longer friends with Facebook. Troubled by its practices, founder Claudia Carey Batz has removed the natural beauty brands from the world’s largest social media platform where they together had...
B-Glowing’s New Cosmetics Brand Targets Gen Xers And Baby Boomers (Almost Everything Else Remains For Millennials)
Lisa King, the 52-year-old founder of e-tailer b-glowing, searched extensively for a high-end makeup brand that celebrated her age, addressed her beauty needs and didn’t depend on tired tropes about cosmetics for older women. Her search came...
Sassy Candle Brand Evil Queen Extends Its Reign To Riley Rose
The Evil Queen rules at a retailer near you. The Los Angeles-based maker of candles with attitude has entered Riley Rose in its latest distribution coup. Outside of the Forever 21-owned beauty concept, Evil Queen has expanded...
Love Goodly Is Dedicated To Doing Good With Its Beauty Boxes
In the indie beauty segment, more and more companies are making the case that beauty doesn’t have to be superficial. Subscription box specialist Love Goodly is certainly among those companies. It’s committed to introducing women to cruelty-free,...
Adsorb Beauty Is Poised To Ride The J-Beauty Wave Into Luxury Retail
Sometimes beauty and beauty products are found in the strangest places. Adsorb Beauty, for example, originates in ostrich eggs, which Japanese scientists plumb to retrieve antibodies powerful enough to fight free...
