This week, I break down an influx of new industry data from Circana, Launchmetrics and Dash Hudson, which includes the categories and social media trends that led to 8% sales growth for prestige beauty in the first half of the year. Additionally, a new executive appointment to know at the...

Currently the No. 1 health and fitness app in the Apple App store, a growing number of Gen-Z and millennial shoppers use the Yuka product scanning app to quickly look up beauty and wellness products ingredient safety scores before purchasing. But industry insiders, including product safety advocates and cosmetic chemists,...

Nathalie Gerschtein, president of the consumer products division at L'Oréal North America, joins the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss her career growth and lessons learned, predictions for the future of the mass shopper, recent challenges and more. 

This week, I explore how beauty brands are successfully leaning into the "brat girl summer" pop culture trend with slime-green product launches and social campaigns. Additionally, Blake Lively enters the hair-care industry with a debut at Target, and Chanel scouts a new beauty and fragrance executive. 

This week, I report on the influx of new hot tool innovation on display at CosmoProf’s Las Vegas show last week, including infrared light, wire upgrades and the growing T-shaped dryer trend. Additionally, Estée Lauder Companies announces a new CFO and L’Oréal-backed biotech startup Debut launches a contract manufacturing business. 

AI-powered in-store fragrance sampling, powder shampoo and a return to old-world beauty rituals top category innovation seen at CosmoProf’s Las Vegas show last week.

When it comes to influential families in the beauty industry, Jami Morse Heidegger and daughter Hannah Heidegger are in a class all their own. Jami and Hannah join the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss the early days at Kiehl’s, the decision behind selling to L’Oréal, the ins and outs of...

As more beauty brands join Amazon — including Too Faced, Clinique, Kiehl's, Scarlett Johansson’s The Outset, Corpus body care and skin-care brand Pendrell, all this year — brands must become increasingly aware of changing consumer behaviors on the growing marketplace retailer. According to a report by Morgan Stanley, Amazon will...

When Charlotte Tansill and her team at Ogilvy marketing agency set out to create a viral, Superbowl-worthy campaign for CeraVe skin care, they started by developing a conspiracy theory. “We found some Reddit posts from over seven years ago where a couple of people were sort of surmising if there was...