For two decades, Fleur Insley stuck to the conventional path in New Zealand’s beauty industry, working for a prestige personal care distributor before climbing the ranks at L’Oréal in the country to manage marketing for its luxe division. “I really loved it, but I felt I needed a bit of a break. So, I ...

Spark Beauty, the collaboration between Feelunique and Indie Beauty Media Group, is getting into the holiday spirit with a refresh adding four brands – Circcell Skincare, Kelia Skincare, Karité and Plant Apothecary – to a lineup of 19 featured in a section on the European online retailer’s website. On top of unique products, the new ...

Brick-and-mortar beauty stores experimented with an array of tactics from founder meet-and-greets to charity tie-ins over Black Friday and Small Business Saturday to combat e-commerce websites’ and brands’ encroachment on deals territory formerly dominated by traditional retailers. Overall, Americans were in a buying mood following Thanksgiving, and Mastercard estimates they spent $23 billion ...

In December 2011, Neige Blair was trying to print labels, but her printer wouldn’t cooperate. As the problem persisted and sweat started to coat her armpits, she didn’t smell bad because she was wearing her homemade deodorant, the very deodorant she needed labels for. The aluminum-free formula withstood the tough test and, luckily, Blair’s ...

While Alex Nicolaou was developing his brand Nini Organics, he’d pop into large and small stores in the U.K. to check out beauty merchandise for research purposes. “I picked up a product and went up to a girl at the cosmetic counter. I asked her, ‘Does it have hyaluronic acid?’ She said, ‘No, ...