Beauty Entrepreneurs Share Lessons They Learned In The First Year Of Their Businesses

Ask beauty entrepreneurs to divulge the biggest lessons they learned in their initial year of business, and they’ll undoubtedly respond that they can’t possibly choose just one. “That time is a humbling whirlwind of transformation,” says Sarah Biggers,...

This New Australian E-Commerce Destination Wants To Be The Net-a-Porter Of Clean Beauty

Clare McGrowdie, a red carpet, film and television hairdresser and makeup artist for 20 years, has pretty discerning tastes when it comes to where she shops for makeup, haircare and skincare. So, after switching from conventional to natural...

The Persistent Problems Facing Indie Makeup Brands Developing Inclusive Shade Ranges

When 38-year-old LaTrice Moore began to dabble in makeup as a girl, she’d search for foundations that matched her mocha caramel coloring at drugstores and often walked away empty-handed. “A foundation for my shade may have been the...

Up, Up And Away: Publisher Nader Naeymi-Rad Charts Beauty Independent’s Expansion

One year on and Beauty Independent keeps gaining altitude, and Nader Naeymi-Rad couldn’t be more pleased. Naeymi-Rad is co-founder (along with Jillian Wright) of the Indie Beauty Media Group, Beauty Independent’s parent...

Black Chicken Remedies, Born In A Fowl-Embellished Bowl In Australia, Spreads Across The Globe

Black Chicken Remedies today has a sweeping assortment of 64 products spanning diffusers, dry shampoo, night serums, nasal inhalants and scalp treatments, but it started much smaller 18 years ago with founder Chey Birch mixing skin-healing tonics for herself...