Rachel Brown
How Can Luxury Beauty Be Relevant To Today’s Consumers?
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we ask 19 retail, branding, design, product development and marketing experts the following: Despite prestige beauty rebounding this year, there’s been a strong focus on...
Skintellectual Favorite Stratia Raises $2M From The Body Shop Owner Natura & Co.’s Investment Arm
Skintellectuals spreading the gospel of Stratia have a reason to celebrate. Their favorite brand is very likely to get in the hands of more people soon. Fable Investments, the venture capital arm of Natura &...
Beauty’s New Class Of Lifestyle Brands
When Violette Serrat set out to develop her brand Violette_Fr with 11 stockkeeping units across six categories, including makeup, skincare, haircare and fragrance, not everyone was completely sold on the concept. She recounts an advisor teased her...
With Fragrance Poised To Propel Holiday Beauty Purchases, Gen Z Brand Sparti Scents Enters Walmart Stores
Sparti Scents is adding a dash of color—three colors, to be exact—to Walmart’s fragrance assortment. After launching on the megachain’s website in September, the gen Z perfume brand has entered nearly 230 locations with a trio of...
Chris-Tia Donaldson, Founder And CEO Of Haircare Brand Thank God It’s Natural, Dies At 42
Thank God It’s Natural founder and CEO Chris-Tia Donaldson, who championed natural hair and haircare, died on Saturday at 42. The cause of death was complications from a long battle with breast cancer. Donaldson’s death was announced...
How Cleo+Coco Beat The Deodorant Sales Slump Last Year—And Continues To Grow This Year
There were a lot of pretty stinky people last year. With offices closed and parties cancelled due to the pandemic, deodorant sales tanked. Nielsen reports that, after a brief uptick when panic buying took hold at the...
Here For The Tea Creator Samantha Rabinowitz, Chronicler Of Beauty Influencer Missteps, Dies
Samantha Rabinowitz, creator of the popular beauty influencer drama channel Here For The Tea, has died. The news was revealed by her older sister Lisa Greenspoon. On Rabinowitz’s Instagram account Monday, Greenspoon wrote, “She passed away...
