Brands
How 20-Year-Old Entrepreneur Timothy Morris Built Gen Z Grooming Startup Vibe Body Care In His Garage
A little over a year ago, 20-year-old Timothy Morris founded Vibe Body Care in his garage with no seed funding or set plans for the brand’s future. “The idea was actually born when I was a sophomore...
Temptalia’s Christine Mielke Has Tried More Makeup Than Almost Anyone. Now, She’s Released Her Own With Sydney Grace.
A decade after Temptalia founder Christine Mielke collaborated with MAC Cosmetics on a single eyeshadow, Jealousy Wakes, for no compensation, perhaps the most prolific makeup reviewer in the world is back with another collaboration. This time, she...
Native American-Owned Cosmetics Brand Ah-Shi Beauty Is Carefully Reopening Its Stores After Pandemic Closures
Last year, only months after founder Ahsaki Báá LaFrance-Chachere opened Ah-Shi Beauty’s studio, showroom, distribution center and gift shop in Gallup, N.M., and days after it opened a store in Navajo Nation capital Window Rock, Ariz., a...
U Beauty’s Tina Craig Once Had A 20-Step Skincare Routine. Now, She’s A Big Believer In Skinimalism.
When Tina Craig first launched U Beauty in 2019 with a pared-down skincare philosophy and packaging, many people turned their noses up at the brand. “People were so used to Hermès, Chanel and the luxury Bag Snob,”...
Japanese-Inspired Brand OEM Is Out To Upgrade Drugstore Remedies
OEM founders Shun Kinoshita and Ceilidh MacLeod are interested in taking the dread out of drugstore shopping. “You typically go to a drugstore when you’re sick, you’re under the weather or you have your period. You’re already...
Unilever Veteran Joins Hand In Hand As CEO, Looks To Lift Brand Awareness
Hand in Hand has a new leader at the helm to direct its path forward. Piyush Jain, a 23-year veteran of Unilever who was most recently global brand VP of haircare for the United States at the...
