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Amid The Hubbub Of Sephora, Fragrance Brand Abbott Is Out To Transport Shoppers To Nature
Last year, when hot girl summer turned into catatonic girl seasons don’t matter anymore due to the Delta variant, a TikToker going by the handle tamillionaire4eva salvaged a bit of hot girl energy at a bar in New...

After Verifying That Skincare Degrades, Unilever Ventures-Backed Exponent Created A System To Deliver Skincare At Peak Potency
Shortly after Elizabeth Whitman sold her in-office beauty service company Manicube to The Red Door by Elizabeth Arden in 2015 and became CMO of the now-defunct spa chain, where she would later become president as well, she was...

This New Skincare Brand Wants To Lead A Post-Natural Beauty Movement
Beauty brands value natural ingredients so much that they promote them even if their products have a mere sprinkling of them in their formulas. David Koo Hjalmarsson, the entrepreneur behind the new brand Tiny Associates, thinks their...

Celebrity Makeup Artist And Beauty Entrepreneur AJ Crimson, Who Built A Luxury Cosmetics Brand Speaking To Black Women, Dies
Celebrity makeup artist and cosmetics brand founder AJ Crimson has died. No further information about his death has been disclosed. Crimson is a pivotal figure in the beauty industry’s inclusivity movement. Well before Fenty Beauty showed that it...

Long Before The Infamous Slap At The Oscars, Cherlyn Hayes Struggled With Alopecia. She’s Using Her Brand To Share Her Story And Help Others.
For many people, the controversy over Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards last Sunday in response to a “G.I. Jane” joke referring to his wife and alopecia sufferer Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head is their...

Where’s Money Coming From To Fund Beauty Entrepreneurs? Increasingly, Fellow Beauty Entrepreneurs
With KraveBeauty, influencer and entrepreneur Liah Yoo is trying to create the beauty brand she wants to be commonplace in the beauty industry, one that takes the planet’s and people’s health seriously, views links in its supply...

How Influencer And Hairstylist Brad Mondo Grew Haircare Brand XMondo Without An Outside Investor Or Incubator
When Brad Mondo, an influencer and hairdresser who’s last name off of social media is Gesimondo, reached a million YouTube subscribers, he figured he should develop a brand. “I was like, ‘OK, I got to strike while the...