Taylor Bryant
Love, Jude Is A Love Letter From Taiwanese American Skincare Blogger Jude Chao To Her Followers
Before Jude Chao, aka fiddysnails, started her blog Fifty Shades Of Snail in 2015, sheet masks were one of the first products that got her interested in Asian skincare—and she’s since taken on an almost daily...
The Big Find Winner Bossy Cosmetics Set To Launch On QVC With Limited-Edition Lipsticks
After Aishetu “Aisha” Fatima Dozie found out last fall that her brand, Bossy Cosmetics, would be launching on QVC, she began weeping. The tears were prompted by a mix of feelings: surprise, joy and relief. Like a...
Beauty Packaging Isn’t Recycled As Much As It Should Be. Here Are Six Steps Brands Can Take To Help It Get Recycled More.
In April of this year, a Fast Company article heralded TerraCycle as “a company that can recycle just about anything.” Nearly four months later, a Vox piece dug into a lawsuit against TerraCycle, which has claimed...
How Indie Beauty Brand Founders Protect Their Companies And Customers From Cyber Threats
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 15 founders and executives: With the incredible importance of digital strategies since the pandemic started, how are you protecting your brand from cyber...
Clean Beauty Brand Jacq’s Launches Skincare Products At Target
Many retail partnerships don’t happen immediately. That was certainly the case for Target and Jacq’s. A buyer from the chain initially reached out to Jacq’s founder Barbara Jacques a couple of years ago, but nothing came of...
Customers Act As Co-Creators Of Italian Beauty Brand Superfluid
Every couple of days or so, skincare and makeup brand Superfluid poses a question to its more than 50,000 Instagram followers. There are silly questions such as, “Which comes first, cereal before milk or milk before cereal?”...
Clean Beauty Summer School Pitch Competition Winner Pholk Starts Fundraising And Expands At Retail
Niambi Cacchioli has been building Pholk Beauty since 2018 when she launched the line of clean skincare products for people of color from her home in Jersey City, but her the brand’s story starts long before that....
