What Indie Beauty Brands Need To Know About Employing Third-Party Logistics Services

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...

Dispensing Customized Skincare Prescriptions, Docent Acts As A Digital Liaison Between Dermatologists And Patients

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...

Live Tinted’s Deepica Mutyala Thinks Venture Capital Investors Have A Tokenism Problem

“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...

VI Peel Creator Vitality Institute Launches The Brown Skin Agenda To Increase Awareness Of And Education On Treating Skin Of Color

For most white consumers, going to the dermatologist to address a skin issue is a relatively straightforward process involving examination of the issue followed by solution recommendations. For most people of color, the experience isn’t nearly...

Pholk Wins Clean Beauty Summer School’s 2021 Pitch Day Competition

Pholk has won Clean Beauty Summer School’s 2021 pitch day competition, the finale of the 10-week program launched last year by Tower 28 founder Amy Liu to support the growth of emerging...

“A Truly Multicultural Brand”: How Urban Hydration Is Building A Business Resonating With Consumers Across America

While Psyche Terry’s 11-year-old natural skincare, haircare and body care brand Urban Hydration sells millions of items in over 10,000 retail locations today, its products were far from perfect day one. “They were ugly,” she admits. “The...