Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Josie Maran brings clean beauty to OTC products The creation of Argan Apothecary to house OTC products is the first move for the brand outside the traditional beauty categories. In 2020, lip-care brand Eos launched into the OTC lip category with two products. As the skin-care category continues to swell with products for the face, body, scalp and...
Il Makiage parent company charts path for massive growth with new investors and brands Oddity, the parent company behind DTC makeup brand Il Makiage, has secured a $130 million secondary-market private round as it seeks to diversify its investors and expand its business model. Il Makiage reported $260 million in 2021 revenue and is profitable, while Oddity plans to launch a new brand every...
Winky Lux plots retail growth and leans into livestreaming In March, Winky Lux will expand to Ulta Beauty, plus it plans to open five of its own storefronts throughout 2022 in the southern United States. Winky Lux is also ramping up its focus on Instagram Live, which it first began using in 2021.
Year in Review Beauty Podcast: NFTs became hot, shop-in-shops dominated retail and curly hair became popular The previous 12 months were, in many respects, a rollercoaster. The year started and ended with a bang, in the form of multiple high-profile acquisitions and investments. Plus, the burgeoning worlds of the metaverse and NFTs ruled conversations, and social shopping and shop-in-shops increasingly dictated where and how people shop.
L’Oréal seeks to reinvent hair-dye application with the Colorsonic at-home device Guive Balooch, global head of research and innovation at L'Oréal’s tech incubator, said hair color formulation has gone through significant innovation over the last 115 years, but hair color application has not.
OPI teams up with Xbox for global nail polish collab The collaboration consists of a 12-shade range of polishes with game-inspired names like “Pixel Dust” (shimmery dusty pink) and “Sage Simulation” (sage green). Through January, the complete collection will be exclusively available at Ulta Beauty in the U.S. As 2021 closed out with gaming, the metaverse, and NFTs taking the...
Natural looks, bold color and mental health will rule 2022 beauty and wellness trends Glossy evaluated the trend reports from Ulta Beauty, Instagram, Pinterest and trend analytics firm WGSN to understand what the common themes are for 2022 and why.
The beauty industry confronts the back-to-office conundrum According to a March 2021 survey by Prudential of 2,000 full-time workers, 87% of remote workers wanted to work in the office at least one day a week, while 13% wanted to be back full-time. Currently, the dominant theme among corporate beauty offices in America is that of hybrid in-office...
Eurazeo Brands’ Adrianne Shapira: ‘During Covid, people either have a mask on their face or on their hair’ When Beekman 1802 announced its majority-stake acquisition by Eurazeo Brands in early December, it thrust the European investment group back into the beauty industry spotlight. Eurazeo Brands is also the current owner of Nest Fragrances, and fashion brands Bandier and Herschel Supply Co.