This Week In Social Media: How Different Platforms Are Impacted By Political Machinations

This election cycle, the line between social media and politics has become blurred, if not completely obliterated. Whether you’re using social media for personal use, business use, or both, there’s no escaping politics. Pre-social media, you could...

Five Exciting Beauty Trends From The First Half Of 2020

In a typical year, Beauty Independent would have produced four Trend Reports by now, following the four Indie Beauty Expos—Los Angeles, Berlin, Dallas and New York—that were planned for the first eight months of 2020. The...

Milk Makeup Backer Main Post Partners Execs On The Power Of Sephora And Breakout Hero Products

Main Post Partners has big aims for its beauty business and a big pocketbook to accomplish them. The San Francisco-based private equity firm operates two investment funds in excess of $1.1 billion combined. It has...

Brzln Skin Enjoys Exposure On QVC And Expansion Into Body Care

Brazil is known for producing some of the most beautiful, sun-kissed supermodels in the world—a reputation that Wilson Chueire, founder of Brzln Skin, says was the catalyst for the...

The Beauty Entrepreneur Working To Desegregate Minneapolis Salons

When Melissa Taylor relocated to Minneapolis after college to work in finance for a Fortune 500 company, she never imagined the sharp turn her career would soon take. With an economics degree from an HBCU under...