After The Closure Of Its New York Store, Gender-Neutral Pioneer The Phluid Project Builds Its Beauty Business

When Rob Smith decided to close The Phluid Project, Manhattan’s first gender-neutral retailer, after two years, he didn’t view it as an ending. The store recently shuttered because it was too expensive to maintain, according to Smith,...

Pause Well-Aging Founder Rochelle Weitzner’s Take On The Right Way For A Beauty Brand To Talk About Menopause

After Estée Laundry posted about Korres’s White Pine Meno-Reverse last week, the anonymous Instagram account’s followers quickly reacted to the skincare brand’s anti-aging positioning and its suggestion that the new line would negate the effects of menopause...

How Bésame Cosmetics Harkens Back 100 Years To Create A Contemporary Brand

Bésame Cosmetics looks back to forge ahead. The prestige vintage-inspired brand started in 2004 with a red lipstick that evoked the 1920s, and has since revived the century-old Cake Mascara concept and cream rouge from 1938 before...

Former Burt’s Bees And Bliss Exec Mike Indursky’s Next Act

With multiple career achievements under his belt from marketing Chesebrough-Pond’s soothing cucumber eye treatments to leadership roles at Burt’s Bees when the natural brand sold to The Clorox Co. and Bliss after Steiner Leisure acquired the legacy property,...

Singing Bowls And Kegelbells: Indie Beauty Media Group Reveals 2019 Best In Show Winners

Awards season isn’t just for Hollywood. Today, Indie Beauty Expo operator and Beauty Independent parent company Indie Beauty Media Group reveals the winners of the 2019 Best In...

Kreyol Essence Scores A Deal On “Shark Tank” And National Rollout At Ulta Beauty

Yve-Car Momperousse, who started Kreyol Essence in 2014 with her husband Stephane Jean-Baptiste, wasn’t going to leave “Shark Tank” without a deal. That doesn’t mean she would take just any deal. In an episode of the ABC...