
Skin Treatment Studio House Of Pietro Simone Opens In New York City
Don’t call it a med spa. Facialist and brand founder Pietro Simone’s new New York City face and body treatment studio, House of Pietro Simone, embraces the latest cutting-edge aesthetic tools such...

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...

Credo For Change To Relaunch As A Career Accelerator Program In 2023
Credo for Change, the accelerator program clean beauty retailer Credo started in 2020, is changing its focus from BIPOC brand founders to people from underrepresented groups aspiring to careers in the beauty industry. The idea behind the...