Where Beauty Brand Founders Think DEI Initiatives Stand Today In The Wake Of The Lawsuit Against Fearless Fund

Fearless Fund, the Black women-owned venture capital firm backing early-stage businesses owned by women of...

All The Ways Emerging Beauty Brands Fund Their Businesses

Among direct-to-consumer brands, there’s a lot of talk of technology stacks or all the different tools used to run e-commerce and digital consumer interactions, but financial stacks or all the different mechanisms brands depend on to fund their...

What’s With All The Secrecy About The Relationship Between Beauty Manufacturers And Brands?

Traditionally in the beauty industry, brands have kept their contract manufacturers under wraps and vice versa, and the main tool to enforce secrecy has been a non-disclosure agreement. There are reasons to believe that greater candidness...

From Different Packaging For Different Distribution To Low-pH Products, Trends Behind-The-Scenes Beauty Companies See Bubbling Up

Many beauty brands are trying to incorporate sustainability measures, but the production processes and packaging responsible for making and encasing their products don’t necessarily support their sustainability ambitions. The good news, according to beauty suppliers, is...

Is Prestige Beauty Hitting Its Peak? Beauty Industry Insiders Don’t Think So.

In a recent Business of Fashion article, beauty correspondent Daniela Morosini wrote, “In beauty, prestige may be at its peak,” and highlighted challenges facing the sector such as crowding, the quality of masstige and mass...

Why Founders Think DTC Is Being Underestimated Today And Other Takeaways From Uplink Expo LA 2024

Beauty brand founders are deluged with advice. Go omnichannel, those doling it out insist. Don’t focus on an exit, they posit. But advice without real experience is generally less valuable than the time it took to spew it....