Beauty & Wellness Briefing: How beauty brands are winning new customers on Reddit This week, I checked in with Erno Laszlo marketing lead Tiffany Roshanian to glean insights into how the nearly 100-year-old heritage skin-care brand is acquiring new customers on Reddit. The alt social network went public earlier this year and has become a focus for beauty retailers including Sephora, which launched...
How beauty brands and agencies are preparing for the possible TikTok ban On Friday, a panel of judges upheld the ruling that TikTok must sell to an American company before January 19 or be banned from the U.S. app store. This week, Glossy surveyed more than a dozen beauty execs, marketing professionals and agency leaders for a detailed account of how the...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: L’Oréal exec Ali Goldstein on growing the ‘Women of Worth’ initiative to boost brand love This week, I sat down with L’Oréal executive Ali Goldstein to learn about the evolution of the company's Women of Worth corporate social responsibility program, which hosted a star-studded event in Hollywood at the end of November. Additionally, “Call her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper is set to launch a...
Ulta Beauty’s Q3 sales increase is led by men’s and unisex fragrance “Fragrance was our strongest category, delivering high, single-digit comp growth driven by men's fragrance, gender-neutral fragrances, and new products, including new fall and holiday gift sets,” Dave Kimbell, CEO of Ulta Beauty, said during the retailer’s third-quarter 2024 earnings call on Thursday.
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Black Friday foot traffic spikes at big box and off-price stores This week, I reviewed early shopping results from retail’s biggest weekend of the year, which include record digital sales and yar-over-year growth in foot traffic at big box and off-price stores. Additionally, Unilever invests in new manufacturing processes, Nike taps British makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench for a collab, and Sarah...
Special podcast episode: The year’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday retail trends In this special crossover podcast episode, Glossy Beauty Podcast co-hosts Lexy Lebsack and Sara Spruch-Feiner are joined by Modern Retail editor-in-chief Cale Guthrie Weissman to discuss BFCM retail trends. This includes the influx of luxury and prestige brick-and-mortar experiential shopping, Amazon’s Haul app that promises “crazy low prices,” and the...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Off-price beauty is set to thrive amid tariffs and economic chaos This week, I checked in with retail experts to analyze last week’s earnings from Ross and TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, and learn how the off-price beauty category could thrive amid possible 2025 tariffs. Additionally, nail-care brand Olive & June is acquired, and executive shakeups at...
How Solawave is using ‘Schedule A’ litigation to successfully fight Amazon counterfeiters Andrew Silberstein, founder and CEO of beauty tech company Solawave, speaks with Glossy about the ongoing counterfeiting challenges across marketplace sites like Amazon, which the company has successfully mitigated through a type of lawsuit offered in Illinois courts called ‘Schedule A’. Silberstein calls them fast and effective against a growing...
Fundraising lessons with Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen: ‘No one cares about the story’ Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen joins the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss his brand's fundraising journey — which included more than 160 investor meetings over the past two years — and his newest book, “The Guide To Becoming Alive,” available this week from Chronicle Books.