Retail Buyers Spotlight Standout Products From Indie Beauty Expo Los Angeles

Indie Beauty Expo headed west last week to spotlight rising indie beauty stars in downtown Los Angeles at the California Market Center. In total, almost 200 emerging brands packed IBE’s 45,000-square-foot venue with skincare, color cosmetics, haircare,...

Scared Of Nail Art? Growing Nail Salon Concept Color Camp Can Help You Choose An Insta-ready Design

If your legal counsel is rocking fabulous fingernail foil, Color Camp could be responsible. The emerging salon concept has broadened nail art from cutting-edge early adopters to beauty consumers generally timid to try the latest styles. Now,...

Benign Shine: Clean Beauty Brand Magic & Manifest’s Biodegradable Glitter And Face Stickers Brighten Retail Shelves

At jewelry and temporary tattoo brand Love and Madness, Heather McAvoy created 2,000-plus designs for the likes of Claire’s and Free People. “I must have sold a million tattoos, seriously,” she says. “I had an office in New...

Spark Beauty Freshens Up For The New Year With Four New Brands

For a fresh new year, Feelunique and Indie Beauty Media Group are recharging their collaboration with a group of Fresh Indie brands. Four brands—Pretty Athletic, Ere Perez, La Sirene and Honey Belle—are being added to the...

Clean Spa Concept Milk + Honey Surpasses $19M In Revenue And Readies For National Expansion

Spas don’t have be fancy-schmancy to be big business. Milk + Honey surpassed $19 million in revenue last year based on a simple premise: healthy spa services provided in a healthy work environment. Now, backed by Keller...

Wig Sales Are Growing And So Is Girl+Hair, A Haircare Brand For Women Who Wear Them That’s Entering Target

Wigs are excellent concealers of the imperfect hair underneath them, but Girl+Hair doesn’t believe women should settle for the imperfect, even if it’s unseen. The emerging brand’s products are designed to maintain the health of natural hair...