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The Business Of Beauty In The Time Of Trump 2.0
Chronicling the inauguration party thrown by Bari Weiss’s online newspaper The Free Press for her popular Substack Feed Me, Emily Sundberg reported there were “big white smiles,” “incredible tans,” “women with...
What Emerging Beauty Brands Need To Know About Jumping On Chinese Social Media App RedNote
After the Supreme Court heard hours of oral arguments against and in support of the TikTok ban on Friday, the mood on the wildly popular social media platform turned fatalist, but content creators didn’t lose their sense of...
Beauty Specialty Retail’s Gen Alpha Attack Plan
At Ulta Beauty, a teenage rebellion ousted Dave Kimbell, at least that’s the take at publication Puck, which chalked up his prompt exit as CEO last week at least in part to 11-year-olds pillaging Sephora’s instead...
The Great Drugstore Contraction’s Surprising Upside For Emerging Beauty Brands
Almost a third of pharmacies in the United States closed between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent article in the journal Health Affairs, and retail analytics firm RetailStat estimates there were 3,000...
Sex Workers Are The New—And OG—Beauty Influencers
Like countless influencers on Instagram and TikTok, Keila Misdom posts tutorials and “get ready with me” videos highlighting her favorite beauty products from brands such as Benefit Cosmetics, Pixi Beauty, NYX, Huda Beauty, Milani...
Beauty’s TikTok Doomsday Prepping
While the clock is ticking on TikTok’s fate in the United States, which under a law signed by president Joe Biden in April last year must be divested by Chinese parent company ByteDance or be removed...
