Follow Her: Myesha Polnett, Fenty Skin Global Ambassador Myesha Polnett is Fenty Skin’s newest ambassador, joining Sean Garrette in repping Rihanna’s skin care line, which launched its first three products in July, 2020. Since then, they’ve launched a night cream, an eye cream and, most recently, its Butta Drop Whipped Oil Body Cream. Polnett’s first marching orders have entailed...
The Shefit sports bra is taking over TikTok In a recently posted TikTok, Mikayla Nogueira, who has 5.7 million followers and is typically known for glam makeup looks, jumps up and down in a sports bra. The bra is the Shefit Ultimate Sports Bra. It's “on my FYP every single day,” Nogueira says in the clip.
Todrick Hall on his Morphe Pride collaboration and loving makeup For multi-hyphenate director, producer, actor, dancer and influencer Todrick Hall, accepting his own love of makeup has been a journey. Now, Hall feels more comfortable exploring both his masculine and feminine sides. His just-released album is called "Femuline," and on June 1, launched a collaboration with Morphe.
Influencer Teni Panosian’s brand Monday Born bets on the drop model Influencer Teni Panosian's brand, Monday Born, sells its products on a drop basis. “We don’t have a purchase order for 50,000 or 100,000 products that then just sit on a shelf for a year,” she said. “Thousands of those products that don’t get sold end up as waste. Plus, in...
Sephora expands its influencer brands with Jess Hunt’s Refy Beauty Refy Beauty, founded by influencer Jess Hunt, is launching at Sephora. It's one of a small group of influencer-founded brands to launch at the prestigious beauty retailer.
Jenna Lyons on brands’ LGBTQ+ responsibility In 2011, when Jenna Lyons was creative director of J.Crew, she appeared in one of the retailer's catalogs with her son, Beckett, a toddler at the time, his little toes painted hot pink. Right-wing outrage ensued. It was the same year an article in the New York Post outed Lyons....
5 newly-launched beauty brands to know There is no shortage of launches in the beauty industry, from brands adding to their lineups to entirely new entities, eager to make their mark. We're keeping track of the new brands to know each month, and filling you in on why they matter.
Alexis Ren’s We Are Warriors launches skin-care kits with Sonya Dakar Alexis Ren has teamed up with her personal skin guru and popular facialist among L.A. influencers, Sonya Dakar, to introduce two kits of miniature products. The kits target sensitive and blemish-prone skin, and are priced under $100 to be accessible to Ren’s younger fan base.
‘Melanin-rich’ beauty is suddenly everywhere A spate of new brands is marketing themselves as being for "melanin-rich skin." It’s a decision based on decades of people of color feeling excluded from the beauty market. The history is damning.