
Hair Extensions Boom (With Big Help From Instagram)
Stubbly strands don’t make for great selfies. Thanks to the promise of camera-ready results, semi-permanent beauty solutions such as hair extensions are soaring. Wildly popular in the Dynasty-obsessed 1980s, interest in mane extensions has been rekindled due to...

Musely Merges Beauty Content And Commerce To Combat Amazon
Jack Jia, a venture capital investor and computer software entrepreneur, created the app Trusper to be a destination for home improvement tips, not a source of skincare information. Its users, however, had their own ideas. They weren’t as...

This Nail Salon And Spa Concept Provides Clean Beauty Services In A Squeaky Clean Setting
Clean Beauty Bar may very well be the healthiest bar in Tampa Bay and Winter Park. The growing nail salon and spa concept serves up cold-pressed juices while offering manicures, pedicures, facials, massages and more...

SkinOwl’s Annie Tevelin On Generating Profitable Growth Without Being Too Salesy
Annie Tevelin, founder of the skincare brand SkinOwl, is the original SkinOwl. Long before Facebook groups were brand-building exercises, she doled out sage beauty advice on the social media network to an invite-only assemblage of 1,600...

Retailers Get That L.A. Feeling With Los Feliz Botanicals
Los Feliz Botanicals’ laid back SoCal approach to retail expansion is catching on like beach trips on bright sunny days. Not in a rush to put products on every store shelf, married co-founders Josh and...