The Beauty Industry Needs To Do More To Confront Anti-Asian Racism
A year ago, after a wave of racist assaults targeting elderly Asian Americans, we touched base with Asian American and Asian beauty entrepreneurs and executives about what the beauty industry should be doing to show support for...
A New Wave Of Brands Is Shaking Up The Wig, Weave And Extension Segment
When Tiffini Gatlin started synthetic hair extension and wig brand Latched and Hooked in 2016, everyone thought she was crazy. “We were kind of like the stepchild of the industry for decades, and now we are really...
In Partnership With Brands, Women Celebrities Are Opening Up About Menopause
When Wile, an ingestible wellness brand for women 40-plus launched last November, Gwendolyn Floyd, Corey Scholibo and Julie Kucinsk were announced as its founders, but there’s a fourth founder whose well-known...
KraveBeauty Founder Liah Yoo’s New Venture Fund Wants To Change Beauty Investing For The Better
KraveBeauty founder Liah Yoo has launched the fund Press Reset Ventures with $1 million and a mission that’s much broader than achieving a good return on beauty investments. Yoo believes the traditional venture capital model is...
Investment Bankers Anticipate Lots Of Beauty Deals, A Focus On Profits And A Dip In Valuations This Year
After a slow 2020 for beauty mergers and acquisitions, the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 have been buzzing with activity, thanks to a backlog of capital that investors and buyers have been eager...
