Brands
Five Emerging CBD Brands Generating Buzz In The Beauty Industry
As the CBD market mushrooms, beauty brands wielding the ingredient are burrowing into every niche imaginable. From K-beauty to social consciousness, they’re multiplying with different takes on the compound and audiences to deliver it to. Here, we explore...
BFFs Jessica Frandson And Jill King Are Breathing New Life Into Aromatherapy With Well-Oiled Luxury Brand Campo
Jessica Frandson and Jill King, friends since teenagehood, didn’t realize they shared a love of aromatherapy until Frandson was visiting King a few years ago. “Jill saw the perfume bottle I had brought with me, said she had...
Indie Beauty Expo To Make Its European Debut, Feature Spark Beauty Collection With Feelunique At IBE London Next Week
Indie Beauty Expo is heading across the pond. The trade show created by New York-based Indie Beauty Media Group is touching down in Europe with the inaugural edition of IBE London running from Oct. 24 to 25...
New Brand Sole Toscana Brings The Splendor Of The Italian Countryside To Organic Skincare
If you can’t visit Italy, Sole Toscana hopes to transport you there through skincare. The new direct-to-consumer brand from Nu Sebastiani bottles ingredients cultivated in the Italian countryside for American consumers seeking well-crafted merchandise with artisanal origins....
Lip Venom Inventor Cristina Bartolucci Channels Her Quirky Product Genius Into Building Peek With Merchandise That Couldn’t Come From Anyone Else
Cristina Bartolucci is best known for Lip Venom, the plumping product she invented while helming DuWop Cosmetics with former partner Laura LaRocca, but she’s no one-hit product wonder. Previously chief creative officer of NYX Cosmetics, Bartolucci developed a...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Lousy Masks: Besties Kayla Bertagna And Lisa Ballstaedt Create Soon Skincare After A Mediocre Masking Experience
During a girls’ trip to Puerto Vallarta in March last year, friends Kayla Bertagna and Lisa Ballstaedt were playing around with Korean sheet masks when they realized the slippery, goopy, serum-soaked sheaths weren’t as easy or awesome as they expected. “We...
