Five Rising Black Woman-Owned Beauty Brands To Put On Your Shopping List
For most of the modern beauty industry’s history, black-owned beauty brands weren’t getting the mainstream credit or visibility they deserved. Now, with growing recognition of the strong demand for skincare and haircare catering specifically to black women, we’re...
How Social Media-Fueled Brand Makeup Geek Is Setting Itself Up To Succeed In An Era Of Diminished Influencer Marketing ROI
When Makeup Geek founder Marlena Stell started producing makeup tutorials for YouTube more than a decade ago, she had little idea of the impact social media would have on the beauty industry. It catapulted brands like hers,...
Meet The Brand Striving To Make India Known For Sophisticated Luxury Skincare
Growing up, Paayal Mahajan was the bullied chubby kid. By 30 years old, after enduring decades of ridicule over her size—she was 263 pounds at her largest—she dedicated herself to losing weight, an arduous task that took a...
Is It Possible To Create Truly Gender-Inclusive Scents? Scentbird’s New Brand Confessions Of A Rebel Is Banking On It
Many scents by emerging perfume brands purport to be unisex, but most aren’t actually appreciated by both men and women, according to Scentbird. With its new standalone brand Confessions of a Rebel, the subscription fragrance company...
Does It Really Take Two Years To Build A Blockbuster Beauty Product?
No beauty brand wants consumers to think it hastily whipped up its formulas overnight. A lengthy product development process connotes care and quality. But, in the beauty industry, it’s not necessary to belabor behind-the-scenes labor. While many companies...
