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Lash-Boosting Brand Plume Takes A Family-First Approach
Lauren Bilon has gone from being a stay-at-home mom to spearheading the skyrocketing natural hair and lash brand Plume. In two years, Plume has entered Nordstrom, Credo and The Detox Market in the U.S., and...
Volition’s Crowdsourced Goods Entice The Beauty Crowds At Sephora
A self-professed beauty junkie, Anuradha Koli was poking around Facebook and stumbled across an ad for Volition, a crowdsourcing platform inviting regular folks to suggest beauty products. The concept interested her, and she started to ruminate about...
Hynt Beauty Breaks Into The Detox Market’s Makeup Assortment
Hynt Beauty is launching at The Detox Market as it gains brick-and-mortar traction. Meryl Marshall, co-founder of the natural makeup brand, readily admits breaking into retailers is difficult for a small beauty player trying to make headway in...
Joon Bottles Persian Secrets For Shiny Strands
Shiva Tavakoli is coming into her own in the beauty industry, but not by leaving her roots behind. The daughter of Frank Tavakoli, a haircare veteran who sold the salon chain TGF to Regis, and established cosmetics firms...
PocketGel’s 23-Year-Old Founder Scored 500 Walmart Doors In An Hour
Nathan Failla was more stressed than he’d ever been in his 23 years of life. Studying for exams at Duquesne University, which Failla graduated a year before, didn’t come close to the pressure he was under to...
The Makings Of A Beauty Consumer Today
Yusra Khan, a high school senior at Orinda Academy in Northern California, isn’t afraid to spend her savings – or her parents’ – on mascaras, palettes and highlighters that cost $20, $30 or more at Sephora and...
Sex (Oil) Sells: An Unsalacious Story Of The Products And Passion Driving Province Apothecary
Julie Clark is a maker in the truest sense of the word. She’s compelled to make stuff. That longing led her first to costume design and wardrobe styling in New York, where hostile workplaces distressed her,...
