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The Black Beauty Club’s Tomi Talabi On The Structural Undervaluation Of Black Beauty
Long before Tomi Talabi entered the workforce, her understanding of beauty was informed by an upbringing spread between Lagos, London and New York, with early experiences that grounded it in daily rituals rather than products. Later, in roles...
After A Decade Of Costly Lessons, Bootstrapped Brand Reina Rebelde Reins In Retail Risk
Reina Rebelde emerged in 2016 as a love letter to the women and men of the Latino makeup-wearing community. Unlike many competitors, which sought Latinx market share but often counted few among the top brass, Reina Rebelde...
Octavia Morgan Opens Up Sophisticated Fragrance To Scent-Sensitive Consumers
Out of 20 indie brands that market research firm Kline + Co. recently identified as M&A targets, there was only one in the fragrance category: Octavia Morgan Los Angeles. Designed to offer luxury clean scents to...
A Future Where Every Beauty Brand Has Its Own AI-Powered Factory
In the future, the engine of beauty product customization will move from individuals, who’ve dabbled in it through online quizzes and DIY’ing formulas at home, to the manufacturing infrastructure, where micro-factories will enable brands to produce...
Lyma’s Luxury At-Home Laser Devices Power A $48M Business
The beauty device market is notoriously tough, with high upfront development costs, tricky margin profiles and the reality that many products end up unused in a customer’s bottom drawer or are returned. Lyma, which started with...
The Nue Co. Defied Investor Advice And Transformed Its Business With Functional Fragrance
As founders go, there are few as prescient as The Nue Co.’s Jules Miller. She started her wellness-cum-beauty brand with supplements nearly a decade ago, way before “inside-out beauty” was an established subcategory. She also anticipated...
