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A Trio Of Doctors Takes FixMD To QVC
FixMD isn’t a fan of hero ingredient worship. Launching on QVC by next month, the skincare brand from Las Vegas plastic surgeons Goesel Anson, Terry Higgins and Michael Edwards puts a panoply of antioxidants, stem...
Makeup Brands Scare Up Halloween Beauty Sales
Makeup brands and retailers are expecting treats for their balance sheets this Halloween. With the National Retail Federation forecasting that U.S. spending for the spooky day will climb 8.3% to a record $9.1 billion, beauty companies morphing customers...
Seed To Serum Shuttering As Founder Steps Into New Career
Seed to Serum, an online plant-based beauty apothecary, is shutting its virtual doors. After months of pondering the fate of her business, founder Megan Schwarz has chosen to turn her focus away from the e-tailer to...
Accelerator And Retail Mentorship Programs: Application, Attendance And Outcomes
If there’s power in numbers, then participation in an accelerator or retail mentorship program can be powerful for beauty brand founders facing the isolation, resource and manpower limitations, and dizzying array of unknowns that often...
This Nontoxic Nail Salon Founder Is Fighting For Nail Artists To Get Some Respect
Hairstylists command a ton of respect, and Amy Ling Lin doesn’t understand why nail artists aren’t held in the same regard. At her nontoxic nail studio Sundays, she’s challenging the customer-manicurist relationship status quo...
Personal Care Consumers Go On Armpit Detoxes In Droves
From a young age, 34-year-old Zabana Essentials founder Shanell Edwards battled a finicky digestive system. To keep things running smoothly on the inside, she decided to eliminate gluten, and began ingesting activated charcoal and apple...
Valerie Grandury Found Skincare Success In the Aftermath Of Breast Cancer
The big C threw Odacité founder Valerie Grandury a curveball at age 45. She never imagined breast cancer would affect her. She had no family history of the disease. She had none of the typical risk factors....
