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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...
Trends That Will Shape Haircare In 2023—And Some That Will End
As we continue to look forward to next year, for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we asked 16 haircare brand founders and executives the following questions: What haircare trend do...
Trends That Will Define Fragrance In 2023—And A Few That Won’t
As we continue to look forward to next year, for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we asked 19 fragrance brand founders, executives and experts the following questions: What fragrance trend...
Digital Beauty Consultation Startups Take Professional Product Guidance Beyond Spas, Salons And Stores
It’s not easy to find the right beauty product. That’s a major reason why assistance from retail staff and in-store purchases have been so important in the beauty industry. To this day, around two-thirds of prestige beauty and...
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...
The Uneven Evolution Of Beauty Accelerator Programs
With a biopharmaceutical and not beauty industry background, AbsoluteJOI founder Anne Beal figured she only knew 10% of what she needed to know to operate a successful beauty business when she launched her skincare brand in...
