If your phone is always in your hand (and let’s face it, it pretty much is), then perhaps its case is actually your most-used accessory. When you take (and post) a mirror selfie, your phone case plays a starring role in the image.  Recognizing that, Casetify has managed to make...

As celebrity beauty brands become the norm, so too do companies that strategize around building them. A new entrant into this space is Creative Beauty, an incubator created in partnership with the talent agency CAA. Alexis Maybank, best known for being the founder of Gilt, is its CEO and co-founder.

In September, WLDKAT, an affordable skin-care brand, reintroduced itself to its audience. It first launched at the start of the pandemic with CBD as its hero ingredient. In its second iteration, the ingredient is gone altogether, and product price points are down about $4-$6 each.

Jonathan Van Ness released his brand, JVN Hair, in partnership with Amyris back in August. On December 14, it will release its first new launch since then. Amyris is also behind Biossance, Rose Inc and a number of other beauty brands.

As TikTok hacks and trends become more commonplace, traditionally trained professionals have watched, sometimes in horror. So we thought it would be fun to take a look back at 2021’s viral makeup hacks — with none other than Violette Serrat, Guerlain’s creative director of makeup and famous French cool girl.

Over the last week, Advent calendars have been a topic of heated discussion. But even before #chaneladventcalendar accumulated 55.4 million views on TikTok and coverage everywhere from Diet Prada to The New York Times, Advent calendars were creating buzz. Exclusively for Glossy, Launchmetrics ranked the top-five most buzzed-about Advent calendars...

October saw not one but two luxury skin-care brands expand into the hair category: Dr. Barbara Sturm launched a full collection, expanding upon an existing scalp serum, and Augustinus Bader entered the category for the first time.

In mid-November, the celebrity gossip account @deuxmoi (1.3 million Instagram followers) posted an email it had received. The pseudonym used by the sender: “primar color” Subject line: “beauty industry” The message: “This A+ musician soon to join the beauty industry with a lipstick brand. Keep up with updates cause there’ll be...

In 2021, Walmart added 69 new beauty brands to its assortment -- a range spanning “indie brands, multicultural brands and brands [like Nou] that we built together with P&G,” said Musab Balbale, who’s leading the department’s evolution.