Brands

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....

If we weren’t talking about community involvement, would we really be relevant in 2021? We don’t think so—and that’s a great thing. We’re inviting our community (Beauty Independent’s amazing paid subscribers) to share testimonials on this year’s Beacon...

Undefined hit the market with CBD beauty products a few months prior to the federal Farm Bill that legalized the hemp trade in the United States being signed into law in December 2018. Since then, the...

When the pandemic brought much of brick-and-mortar retail to a screeching halt last year, many beauty brands pivoted their focus to direct-to-consumer orders. Although retail rebounded during the first half of this year, most haven’t pulled...

Docent founders Nathan Gunn and Sierra Manker want to make obtaining skincare prescriptions less cumbersome by bridging the gap between dermatologists and patients. Around 40% of millennial women grapple with skin issues, co-founder and physician Gunn tells Beauty...

“I fell into it,” says Live Tinted founder Deepica Mutyala of the fortuitous move into content creation that catapulted her into entrepreneurship. Shortly after graduating from business school at The University of Texas at Austin in...