Robin Mosley
AAPI-Owned Brand Rējins Launches With A Single, All-Encompassing Step For Melanated Skin
Rējins, a new skincare brand beginning with a single product that’s so all-encompassing it’s called All-Encompassing Serum, stemmed from founder Jilleo Recio’s travel frustrations. In 2019, when the current Californian lived and worked...
Kosé-Owned Albion To Open First US Flagship On LA’s Abbot Kinney
Heritage J-Beauty brand Albion is setting up shop on one of Los Angeles’s trendiest stretches. This summer, the botanical-powered luxury skincare player will open its first flagship in the United States on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the...
Three Emerging Beauty Brand Executives Demonstrate There’s No Single Path To Beauty Management Today
As indie beauty brands make market share inroads in the beauty industry, it’s not only founders that are bulldozing paths for them in a field long dominated by global conglomerates. They’re depending on versatile and...
Started With Just Over $100, Plantmade’s Hair Growth Products Are Now Generating Millions
After being laid off from her recruitment job in February 2020, Ama Amo-Agyei, who suffered from alopecia and who’s family members have experienced hair loss, had time to experiment with hair growth recipes. Informed by her Ghanian roots,...
The Power Of Tea Drives Dermatologists De Anne Harris Collier and Raechele Cochran Gathers’ New Scalp Wellness Brand Bloomballa Beauty
Dermatologists De Anne Harris Collier and Raechele Cochran Gathers are big believers in the power of tea—and not just for sipping. They’ve made tea the star of their adaptogenic scalp wellness brand Bloomballa...
Skincare Consultation Platform Protea Enables People To Access Expert Aestheticians From The Comfort Of Their Home
With people stuck at home staring at their faces on Zoom, the onset of the pandemic initiated a wave of skin consultation digitization. It was during that time that business development specialist and proposal writer...
At Libre Skincare, Mexican Botanicals And Latinx Representation Are Front And Center
A chemical engineer by training, Eddie Aguirre’s latest side hustle, Libre Skincare, is a love letter to his Mexican roots, community and the brown creatives from Los Angeles who inspire him. “I see...
