Ben Bennett’s New Incubator And Investment Firm The Center Aims To Prime Emerging Beauty Brands For Lucrative Exits

If you’re hunting for future Drunk Elephants, Ben Bennett’s someone to watch. The product developer and beauty trend soothsayer has started incubator and investment firm The Center to create and nurture brands he hopes will end up in...

After The Closure Of Its New York Store, Gender-Neutral Pioneer The Phluid Project Builds Its Beauty Business

When Rob Smith decided to close The Phluid Project, Manhattan’s first gender-neutral retailer, after two years, he didn’t view it as an ending. The store recently shuttered because it was too expensive to maintain, according to Smith,...

Influencers On What Makes A Beauty Brand Appealing To Work With

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions relevant to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 17 influencers: What draws you to work with brands, and what deal breakers turn you off from working with them?

Pause Well-Aging Founder Rochelle Weitzner’s Take On The Right Way For A Beauty Brand To Talk About Menopause

After Estée Laundry posted about Korres’s White Pine Meno-Reverse last week, the anonymous Instagram account’s followers quickly reacted to the skincare brand’s anti-aging positioning and its suggestion that the new line would negate the effects of menopause...

How Bésame Cosmetics Harkens Back 100 Years To Create A Contemporary Brand

Bésame Cosmetics looks back to forge ahead. The prestige vintage-inspired brand started in 2004 with a red lipstick that evoked the 1920s, and has since revived the century-old Cake Mascara concept and cream rouge from 1938 before...