Beneath the Surface
Personal Care Consumers Go On Armpit Detoxes In Droves
From a young age, 34-year-old Zabana Essentials founder Shanell Edwards battled a finicky digestive system. To keep things running smoothly on the inside, she decided to eliminate gluten, and began ingesting activated charcoal and apple...
Meet The Beauty Industry’s Newest Hyphenates: Founder-Farmers
After three years of pining for land away from the city where she could tend to herbs and bees, Province Apothecary founder Julie Clark last month purchased an over 40-acre organic farm two hours from her brand’s...
Direct Sales Beauty Companies Market Makeup, Moisturizers And Social Missions
Andrew McBride, a 10-year veteran of the direct sales industry, was accustomed to companies with sales and recruitment as their chief objectives. Altruistic efforts were sometimes warmhearted corporate responsibility projects, but not a reason for being. McBride’s...
Is Fast Beauty Starting To Flame Out?
In the early days of 17-year-old makeup brand Girlactik, founder Galit Strugano’s launch strategy was to premiere two to three...
The Aging Dilemma: To Embrace Or Fight The Inevitable In Skincare Language
Lauren Glassman discovered the news while perusing the magazine selection at her local manicure salon. As she reached for the September issue of Allure and casually flipped to editor...
Hair Extensions Boom (With Big Help From Instagram)
Stubbly strands don’t make for great selfies. Thanks to the promise of camera-ready results, semi-permanent beauty solutions such as hair extensions are soaring. Wildly popular in the Dynasty-obsessed 1980s, interest in mane extensions has been rekindled due to...
