Taylor Bryant
Myavana Co-Founder Starts Online Marketplace Her Beauty Regimen To Be A Launchpad For Indie Brands
Her Beauty Regimen aims to serve as a flexible, founder-friendly alternative to the onerous demands of large retailers. The idea for the new beauty marketplace came to founder Chanel Martin after a conversation with an indie beauty...
How Adwoa Beauty Navigated A Product Launch Setback And Why It’s Holding Off On Fundraising
Adwoa Beauty founder Julian Addo had already poured over $100,000 into the textured haircare brand’s Melon Berry Hydrating Texture Foam last year when she discovered that the formula was too moisturizing, causing the bottles to malfunction. The...
My Little Pony, Barbie And Beyond: How Beauty Creations Is Leveraging Nostalgic IP To Surpass $84M In Sales
For Esmeralda Hernandez, founder and CEO of Beauty Creations, licensing isn’t just a marketing play: it’s become a powerful growth engine. After launching its first licensed collection with My Little Pony just over a year ago, the...
Haircare Emerges As K-Beauty’s Next Big Category
As K-Beauty enjoys a resurgence fueled by virality, affordability, retail expansion and buzzy skincare products and ingredients, a category it’s not famous for yet—haircare—is gaining prominence. Sarah Chung Park, CEO of Landing International, a distributor that has...
Are AI Influencers Like Slate Brands’ Iris Lane The Future Of Social Media?
People are befriending artificial intelligence bots, but being influenced by them on social media? That appears to be a bridge too far for many. On Tuesday last week, Slate Brands, the incubator behind men’s skincare...
Tween Period Care Brand Scarlet To Enter Ulta Beauty After Rebrand
Tween period care brand Scarlet by RedDrop has undergone a rebrand as it gears up to launch at Ulta Beauty, its debut retail partner, next month. Co-founders Dana Roberts, a former teacher, and Monica Williams, a physician, tapped...
These Brands Show That Beauty’s Scientific Revolution Has Come To Black Haircare
In a TikTok video posted on June 24 that’s drawn 1.7 million views, TikTok content creator Tyla Does Beauty asserted her followers don’t want haircare products with butters and oils aimed at Black consumers. She said, “The...
