With eSalon, Francisco Gimenez Customized At-Home Hair Color. Now, He’s Customizing And Automating Salon Hair Color With Yuv.

As the earth knows full well, humans have a waste problem. That waste problem isn’t simply bad for the environment, it can also be bad for business in settings like salons where wasted products eat into profits. Francisco...

Product-Market Fit Is An Oft-Uttered Business Term. How Does A Beauty Brand Actually Accomplish It?

Brand founders are being impressed upon to establish product-market fit during an economically precarious period in which business fundamentals are a focus. Exactly what constitutes product-market fit, however, is difficult to pin down. On Twitter, Sarah Moret, founder...

Three Emerging Beauty Brand Executives Demonstrate There’s No Single Path To Beauty Management Today

As indie beauty brands make market share inroads in the beauty industry, it’s not only founders that are bulldozing paths for them in a field long dominated by global conglomerates. They’re depending on versatile and...

Brand Founders Get Real About Bootstrapping In An Uncertain And Crowded Beauty Market

Murphy Bishop, co-founder of The Better Skin Co., believes it’s incredibly tough to be a bootstrapped beauty brand today. Not only are bootstrapped brands competing against well-funded players, they’re trying to navigate a beauty industry...

Is The Beauty Industry Suffering From A Product Quality Crisis?

Lorne Lucree, chief innovation officer at contract manufacturer Voyant Beauty and head of its business unit Atelier by Voyant Beauty, believes the beauty industry is suffering from a product quality crisis. He points to mold,...

The Buying Strategies And Trends Steering Beauty Assortments At Erewhon, Shen Beauty And Moda Operandi

Consumers with considerable discretionary income continue to spend handsomely on beauty products, leading last year to growth in the prestige beauty segment outpacing growth in the mass-market segment, according to research firm Circana. To keep...