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True Beauty Ventures’ Cristina Nuñez On Bridge Mentorship, Missteps Indie Brands Make And Hot Beauty Categories
About a year and a half ago, Cristina Nuñez and Rich Gersten set out on a novel project to establish True Beauty Ventures as a venture capital firm with operational and financial expertise focused on beauty and...
Influencer Reagan Hart Brings A Circular System To Sheet Masks With New Brand Low Beauty
To Reagan Hart, low impact doesn’t mean low performance. The clean beauty and lifestyle influencer has launched the brand Low Beauty with the idea of developing effective products that don’t leave a lasting imprint on the earth....
How Can Luxury Beauty Be Relevant To Today’s Consumers?
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we ask 19 retail, branding, design, product development and marketing experts the following: Despite prestige beauty rebounding this year, there’s been a strong focus on...
Skintellectual Favorite Stratia Raises $2M From The Body Shop Owner Natura & Co.’s Investment Arm
Skintellectuals spreading the gospel of Stratia have a reason to celebrate. Their favorite brand is very likely to get in the hands of more people soon. Fable Investments, the venture capital arm of Natura &...
Beauty’s New Class Of Lifestyle Brands
When Violette Serrat set out to develop her brand Violette_Fr with 11 stockkeeping units across six categories, including makeup, skincare, haircare and fragrance, not everyone was completely sold on the concept. She recounts an advisor teased her...
With Fragrance Poised To Propel Holiday Beauty Purchases, Gen Z Brand Sparti Scents Enters Walmart Stores
Sparti Scents is adding a dash of color—three colors, to be exact—to Walmart’s fragrance assortment. After launching on the megachain’s website in September, the gen Z perfume brand has entered nearly 230 locations with a trio of...
Chris-Tia Donaldson, Founder And CEO Of Haircare Brand Thank God It’s Natural, Dies At 42
Thank God It’s Natural founder and CEO Chris-Tia Donaldson, who championed natural hair and haircare, died on Saturday at 42. The cause of death was complications from a long battle with breast cancer. Donaldson’s death was announced...
