Got Multi-Toned Lips? New Luxury Makeup Brand Vedi Beauty’s Got You With Richly Saturated Lipsticks

Growing up health-conscious in San Francisco and dealing with health issues, Nikita Magan, founder of Vedi Beauty, who had a stroke as an infant and has cerebral palsy, became exceedingly deliberate with the beauty products...

How To Sell A Small Beauty Brand, According To Founders Who’ve Done It

Huge beauty brand transactions like L’Oréal’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Aesop and Kering Beauté’s $3.8 billion purchase of Creed last year make headlines, but there are many small beauty brand transactions that don’t get any press. In...

Alternatives Black-Owned Beauty Brands Are Looking To As VC And Grant Funding Dwindles

As tough as the venture capital contraction is for startups generally, it’s far tougher for Black-founded startups. Data from financial resource Crunchbase shows that VC funding for Black-founded startups in the United States totaled $705 million last...

Melanin-Rich Skincare Brand Juru Skin Strives To Boost Skin Hydration On The Global Stage

Launched in February 2023, Juru Skin is quenching skin dehydration with ingredients like Brazilian cupuaçu butter, West African plantain leaf, aloe vera and apricot kernel oil in a trio of products—Hydro Glow Bath...

Ulta Beauty And Credo End Partnership

Credo and Ulta Beauty have ended a partnership that brought a selection of clean beauty products to Ulta stores.  Timed with the October 2020 implementation of Ulta’s Conscious Beauty platform that planted its flag...