Trends

The beauty industry experienced a tremendous rebound this year. According to McKinsey & Co., global beauty sales in 2021 are on track to outpace 2019 sales. Somehow, though, things haven’t felt so sanguine as the supply chain...

Since 2019, we’ve turned to Julie Pefferman annually to prognosticate on beauty trends set to surge in the year ahead. She’s been spot-on about many of them. Last year, she identified regenerative beauty, niche products, mental health...

The great resignation isn’t just a rejection of modern work. It’s a rejection of work culture, which, in the United States, where people work more than in any other industrialized nation, is basically culture. It’s a...

We’re living in precarious in-between times. As exuberance took hold in the United States and we at Beauty Independent began including in our copy that the pandemic appeared to be “subsiding” or “ebbing,” the Delta variant was charging...

If there’s one thing the panelists at Hairstory’s recent Sustainability Beauty Summit could agree on, it’s that there’s a lot of work that needs to be done in the eco-conscious space, whether it’s...

At the beginning of 2020 in the United States, it felt as if the chaos of the year before wouldn’t let up. The Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and fears over the transfer of power in the...