Eric Sakas, Former Boyfriend And Business Partner Of Kevyn Aucoin, Reflects On Working With The Makeup Master And Developing A Brand Of His Own
If the beauty industry was simply about hawking products, lipstick would be sold at swap meets instead of department stores, and salons would be gas stations and to-go places instead of informal counseling centers. Kevyn Aucoin, a gay...
In Time For Labor Day, Fragrance With Benefits Brings Its Mosquito-Banishing Scent To J. Crew And Madewell
Olivia Jan must be very sweet. If there’s a mosquito anywhere in the vicinity of her, she ends up covered with bites. “Even if I’m in a room of 100 people, it finds me,” says Jan, a perfumer...
After Making Several Improvements, Hand In Hand Arrives At Ulta Beauty
In January, Hand in Hand met with Ulta Beauty about the possibility of entering its locations. Less than six months later, the brand shipped fixtures and products in new packaging to almost 400 of the specialty retailer’s...
First Amazon, Then The World: Herbal Dynamics Looks To Expand From The Web To Retail Distribution
While some beauty companies still shun Amazon, Herbal Dynamics Beauty embraces it wholeheartedly: the plant-based beauty brand launched on the e-commerce behemoth exclusively as it got its own website up and...
This Wildcrafting Brand Born In The Mountains Of Wyoming Has Landed At Goop And Credo
Over nearly two decades enduring the New York grind in the beauty and public relations industries, Kendra Kolb Butler confronted the stressors of work: tight deadlines, demanding performance expectations, critical management decisions and long hours. Burnt out, she...
