Retailers Expected To Pull Back On Adding New Beauty Brands In 2024

Jessica Matlin, director of beauty at luxury fashion e-tailer Moda Operandi, forecasts retailers will be conservative with their beauty purchase orders in 2024.  After launching its beauty vertical with some 55 skincare, fragrance,...

Makeup Trends That Will Erupt In 2024—And A Few 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 18 color cosmetics brand founders and executives the following questions: What makeup trends...

How Indie Beauty Brands Predict They’ll Do Next Year

Last month, we asked indie beauty brands to share their sales forecast for the holiday season and more than 40 responded. Getting them to divulge their forecasts for 2024 was a bit harder. We received a lot of nos,...

Move Over Cleanical: Medical-Grade Organic Products Could Be The Next Big Wave In Skincare

Coming out of the pandemic, which propelled people to think hard about all facets of their health, interest in natural and organic skincare that’s also results-oriented and safe has escalated. The merging of these qualities led to the...

Sephora UK’s VP Of Global Merchandising On How Brands Fail And Flourish At The Retailer

According to Nigel Lawmon, VP of global merchandising for haircare at Sephora UK, brands that fail to gain momentum at Sephora tend to share one thing in common: They...

If Beauty Is Doing So Great, Why Do Many Indie Beauty Brands Feel Like They’re Struggling?

In recent weeks, there’s been a deluge of media coverage attempting to decipher why Americans are sour on the United States economy when a slew of economic indicators, including unemployment, gross domestic product growth, job creation,...