Expert Dialogue
Community Comes First For Beacon Awards Winner Rizos Curls Founder Julissa Prado
Community is one of the biggest consumer packaged goods brand buzzwords of 2020. Entrepreneurs want to build communities. Investors want to fund brands that have them. Consumers want to join them. Why...
The Tradeoffs Posed By Different Beauty Packaging Materials
Glass isn’t a sustainable packaging panacea. As beauty brands seek to replace plastic, the material has become a go-to alternative, but every alternative has trade-offs. Glass is energy intensive to produce, heavy to ship and relatively easy to...
What’s Changed For Beauty Employers And Employees Amid The Pandemic?
The pandemic and the power of indie beauty are reshaping hiring and professional development in the beauty industry. Rather than giants like Coty and L’Oréal turning to outside assistance to fill executive-level positions, it’s increasingly emerging...
Strange Bird Founder Tina Chow Rudolf Opens Up About Why She Chose Her Contract Manufacturer
In a Beauty Independent article that ran in July last year asking 15 beauty brand founders how they chose their contract manufacturer, only one, Tina Chow Rudolf, founder of Strange Bird, revealed her skincare brand’s contract...
Five Critical Steps Beacon Awards Winner Kreyol Essence’s Yve-Car Momperousse Took To Land Ulta Beauty
Kreyol Essence’s Black Castor Oil is going from cult hit to store staple. The natural haircare, skincare and body care brand’s retail presence has exploded. In January, it rolled out to Ulta Beauty’s nearly 1,300 doors, and...
Can Caring For The Planet Positively Impact Product Sales?
Being sustainable and ringing up sales aren’t at odds, according to Tensie Whelan, founding director at NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. During Beauty Independent’s In Conversation Spotlight Series webinar last Friday, she asserted eco-friendly brands...
