Inside The Box: Solving The Mysteries Of Paper Packaging

Bottles, jars and tubes aren’t the only beauty packaging units affecting the environment. Secondary packaging is a big part of the story, too. “Sixty-five-plus percent of secondary packaging is made out of paper,” said Nader Naeymi-Rad, co-founder of...

Meet The Black Entrepreneurs Fighting Discrimination In The Beauty Supply Sector

Beauty supply stores are staples of the Black community, places where women stock up on haircare items like relaxers, edge control, extensions, wigs and a hodgepodge of other products. Quantity, though, doesn’t necessarily equal quality. Brittney Ogike, who...

Behind The Lens: How Indie Beauty Brands Produce Striking Photos On Tight Budgets

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 10 brand founders and executives: How do you produce your product and lifestyle photography, and what’s the budget like that you set aside...

Community Comes First For Beacon Awards Winner Rizos Curls Founder Julissa Prado

Community is one of the biggest consumer packaged goods brand buzzwords of 2020. Entrepreneurs want to build communities. Investors want to fund brands that have them. Consumers want to join them. Why...

Five Digital Developments From This Week: Zoom’s Events Feature, Another TikTok Rival And More

With less than three weeks to go before the presidential election in the United States, the media and social media are preoccupied with politics. It’s almost impossible to scroll without encountering a campaign advertisement or a well-meaning citizen...

The Art Of Forecasting First-Year Sales

Any founder who’s gone through the arduous exercise of creating a first-year sales forecast will tell you it’s no laughing matter. Perhaps because it’s such a serious undertaking, even the most knowledgeable experts feel compelled to...