Expert Dialogue
What Is Blonde?: A Conversation With Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom, an author, sociologist and associate professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, started 2023 off with a bang. On Jan. 1, she ignited a conversation on TikTok about the...
Four Keys To Beacon Award Winner Common Heir’s Early Success
Just shy of its two-year anniversary, Common Heir has much to celebrate. The skincare brand’s sales have jumped 3X year-over-year thanks to retail expansion and direct-to-consumer strength.
Beauty Products, Shopping Dynamics And Influencer Strategies That Will Dominate In 2023
Darian Symone Harvin, beauty editor at large for Image at the Los Angeles Times, predicts consumers may start to reevaluate where they shop for beauty products next year as retail spending contracts in...
Uoma’s Sharon Chuter and Pacifica’s Brook Harvey-Taylor On Aligning Activism With Running A Business—And The Price They Pay For It
Increasingly, people are participating in consumerism based on their personal credos, whether they involve workers’, women’s or animal rights, environmentalism, racial equity, poverty alleviation or another issue. Nearly 85% of gen Zers, for example, say they buy based...
Tips From Pound Cake, Winner Of The $1M Black Ambition Prize, On How To Create A Persuasive Pitch Deck
After a little over a year in business, cosmetics brand Pound Cake won Pharrell Williams’ $1 million Black Ambition grant. The money will be dedicated to staff, marketing and support of the brand’s new retail partnership...
Valuations Slide As The Pace Of Beauty M&A Slows, But Prestige Beauty Shows Resilience
Beauty brand valuations are tumbling from last year’s peak as investors turn a sharper eye to businesses that can effectively navigate economic challenges. To Nini Zhang, managing director of investment banking at Bank...
