Like many of the hopeful young adults before him, Sean Garrette, an esthetician and influencer, moved to New York with his sights set on a career in fashion. But although his dreams to be a fashion editor or stylist didn’t work out, he leaned into the beauty space, which he...

Platforms like Depop may be synonymous with virtual thrifting and sustainability today, but Nasty Gal, the online fashion retailer under the Boohoo group, is trying to tap back into its early associations with sustainability. “Sustainable products have been what the business is built on” since it launched 15 years ago,...

Although he may still be able to order from the kid’s menu most at restaurants, 12-year-old beauty blogger Harrison Schwartz’s 1.1 million followers on Instagram demonstrate that creativity and tenacity trump age.

Tom Bachik is the choice nail artist of celebrities including Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo and Jennifer Lopez. However, while growing up, his passions were more around Shaun White than colorful nails. “The plan was to open up my own studio and custom paint racecar helmets and hockey masks and jet...

Although QVC may have set the blueprint for modern-day livestream shopping, which was accelerated by the pandemic, the televised home shopping network was not exempt from the challenges of the past year. “[QVC] still had its own complexities for the way that we thought about the business, the way that our...

Since sunscreen was invented 83 years ago, the connotation of the word has changed from a goopy, white, cream, often yielded by an overprotective mom in the summer, to the pleasant-smelling, anti-aging necessity found in almost everyone’s beauty bag. “People associate sunscreen with the beach or an outdoor activity or...

Despite taking a self-proclaimed “non-traditional” career path, Julian Reis, founder and CEO of beauty incubator SuperOrdinary, credits his initial experience in finance as the catalyst to understanding the potential of the e-commerce beauty market.  “E commerce 1.0 was just beginning,” said Reis, who while working in finance in Singapore in...

The move to working-from-home may have correlated with a rise in comfortable fashion, but as the work pants came off and sweatpants on, the desire for luxury brands did not falter. “Jewelry and accessories were favored because so many people were on Zoom all day long, [and] the only thing that...

From pouring over Revlon magazine ads as a young girl to becoming the first female CEO of the company in 2018, Debra Perelman personifies the “emotional connection” consumers have with beauty.