9 New Beauty Brands At Target

Target spent the past week in the headlines for dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, including initiatives implemented in 2021 after the murder of George Floyd to add Black-owned brands to its selection and work with Black-owned...

5 Product Picks From The Wild Wild West Of TikTok Wellness

After a momentary pause, TikTok is back along with its regular stream of advertising for TikTok Shop, which has been a haven for fringe wellness products.  The social commerce platform is an especially...

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...