With Traditional PR Tough, What Awareness Strategies Are Indie Beauty Brands Pursuing?

The idea for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty comes from Margarita Arriagada, founder of the luxury beauty brand Valdé and former chief merchant at Sephora. As she’s...

Exciting Spring Product Launches From Sexual Wellness Brands

Sexual health and wellness brands continue to build their businesses in a political environment that seems inhospitable to sexual freedom. Still, their raison d’etre is to create products that encourage people to explore intimacy...

Retail News Report: Ulta Beauty Exceeds $10B In Sales, Consumer Spending Surges, And Nordstrom Leaves Canada

Another month, another mixed bag for retail performance. While consumer spending is rising again after a disappointing holiday season, large retailers and department stores are generally still grappling with profit and inventory issues that have been...

Will Beauty And Wellness Increasingly Put Community At The Center?

During organization CEW’s State of the Beauty Industry event last month, Sarah Jindal, senior director of beauty and personal care at market research firm Mintel, spoke about the concept of “self-care” evolving to “community care”...

GlossPitch Competition Winner And Lamik Beauty Founder Kim Roxie Aspires To Build “The Next Big Makeup Brand”

Lamik Beauty founder Kim Roxie has been piling up wins lately. Today, she’s being revealed as the grand prize champion of shopping marketplace GlossWire’s spring 2023 GlossPitch competition, which makes her $10,000 richer....