Indie Beauty Media Group’s Co-Founders Discuss Business Decisions Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Late last week, Indie Beauty Media Group announced the cancellation of Indie Beauty Expo Berlin 2020, formerly slated for March 25 to 26 at Station Berlin, and the postponement of its events in Dallas—The BeautyX...

Adwoa Beauty Set To Launch Prestige Textured Haircare At Sephora

In February 2012, Julian Addo, who’d recently started to watch YouTube videos focused on textured hair, attended a signing in Brooklyn, where the Dallas resident was visiting family, for photographer Michael July’s book, “Afros: A Celebration of Natural...

Rob Robillard On QVC And HSN’s Search For The Next Big Indie Beauty Brand

Rob Robillard, VP of integrated beauty at Qurate Retail Group, parent company of television shopping channels QVC and HSN, is looking for another beauty superstar like Jamie Kern Lima of IT Cosmetics. He says, “We always believed that...

A Venture Capitalist’s Advice For Beauty And Wellness Startups Navigating The Coronavirus’s Business Impacts

When H Venture Partners portfolio company Kinship, a sustainable and clean skincare brand, premiered a mere five months ago, the country’s economic outlook was much different than it is today. On Thursday, the stock market suffered...

Beauty Pie Gets A Taste Of The Brick-And-Mortar Experience With Harvey Nichols Pop-Up

Beauty Pie’s no-markup business model was born purposely without retail middlemen. Marcia Kilgore, who founded and subsequently sold Bliss and Soap & Glory to LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy and Alliance Boots, respectively, came up with the...