Suzannah Weiss
Attitudes Toward Menarche Are Changing—And Emerging Period Care Brands Are Part Of The Change
Growing up, nobody discussed my period with me. When I got it at 13-years-old, I felt I didn’t have anyone to tell. I finally told my therapist, who relayed to me that she’d planted a rose bush to...
Sex In Contemporary Beauty Advertising: Is It Liberating Or Damaging?
From the beginning of mainstream consumer products, sex has been a tool wielded to promote them. In the 1930s, AdAge documents a Listerine ad featured a nude woman’s back and her breast, and marketing for Woodbury soap...
How Beauty Brands Can Avoid Cultural Appropriation
In the space of a few hours last month, Dior launched an advertisement for Sauvage fragrance starring Johnny Depp and a Native American dancer wearing traditional garb, and removed it after an outcry over cultural appropriation and insensitivity....
Will Indie Beauty Brands Take Sides In The Upcoming US Presidential Election?
As the United States plunges into the presidential primaries, its divisions are being laid bare in communities across the country, polling data, Twitter posts and Democratic presidential candidate debates, which start up again today. Brand founders...
What Smaller Brands And Retailers Can Learn From Sephora’s Diversity Training
In April, the pop singer SZA tweeted that a Sephora employee called security on her while she was shopping at a store in Calabasas, Calif. Following the incident, Sephora closed its locations for an hour-long diversity...
How Body Positive Is The Beauty Industry Really?
In September 2004, Dove unveiled its groundbreaking Campaign for Real Beauty with an ad for thigh-firming cream. It featured bigger than average models posing in lingerie alongside the words, “New Dove Firming. As tested on real curves.” The...
Why Beauty Industry Veterans Are Leaving Big Corporations For Entrepreneurial Endeavors
Derek Chase spent a decade of his career at L’Oréal and Johnson & Johnson working on such esteemed brands as Kiehl’s Since 1851, Garnier, Essie, Neutrogena, Maybelline and Baxter of California. While he admired the heritages of the...
