Trends

Robyn Watkins, who held product development roles at companies such as Smashbox Cosmetics, Arbonne International, Orly and DayNa Decker before founding Holistic Beauty Group in 2018, has had a busy year helping beauty brands navigate the...

As president and CEO of category management firm Strategic Solutions International, Romina Brown has a unique vantage point on the future of the textured haircare business. Partnered with Nielsen, she has access to a cloud-based portal...

In its “The State of Beauty 2021” report, McKinsey & Co. forecasts the United States beauty industry will return to pre-pandemic sales in the first half of next year and reach an annual growth rate of...

During the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests over the summer, The Ready Set, a diverse coalition of former L’Oréal USA executives and beauty business consultants, united to forge a new path for multicultural beauty...

“This is the year that clean beauty just equaled beauty,” says Julie Pefferman, a cosmetic chemist and founder of The Lab & Co., an indie beauty incubator behind such brands as healthy self-tanning specialist Cleantan, personal lubricant...

In a typical year, Beauty Independent would have produced four Trend Reports by now, following the four Indie Beauty Expos—Los Angeles, Berlin, Dallas and New York—that were planned for the first eight months of 2020. The...