True Beauty Ventures Co-Founder Cristina Nuñez: Ready To Bankroll Change
Cristina Nuñez is a beauty industry double threat. She comes to new firm True Beauty Ventures, which she started with veteran beauty investor Rich Gersten, with financial and operational chops. After graduating Duke University, Nuñez plunged into...
How Clean Beauty Retailers Are Trying To Fix Their Diversity Problems
In 2016, Gwyneth Paltrow literally published the book on clean beauty. That book, “Goop Clean Beauty,” recommended detoxing, seeing expensive dermatologists, improving gut health by curbing consumption of gluten, chlorinated water and food preservatives, and shopping for beauty...
Clean Beauty Is A Rich, White Club That Hasn’t Let Me In. Here’s How It Can Make Real Change.
In 2016, Stephane—my life and business partner—called me to tell me about two new stores he found that he strongly believed our brand Kreyol Essence belonged in. We were new to the business of beauty and were...
What It’s Really Like To Pitch Retailers As A Black Beauty Entrepreneur
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 20 founders: As a Black brand owner, what’s it been like for you to pitch retailers, and how do you think they could...
Beauty Independent’s Beacon Awards To Recognize Guiding Lights In The Indie Beauty Segment
We love beauty entrepreneurs. We love covering the brand founders, retailers, investors and solution providers driving this industry forward. We love celebrating the community bringing change to the beauty industry. After three years of chronicling the...
