The rise of the Gen-Z-loved Yuka app — and its growing cohort of critics 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,...
L’Oréal President Nathalie Gerschtein on intuition, trends and the mass beauty shopper: ‘There’s really only one consumer’ 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.
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: How beauty brands are having a ‘brat girl summer’ 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.
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: ‘The Dyson effect’ defined hair care at CosmoProf Las Vegas 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.
The beauty trends that dominated CosmoProf Las Vegas 2024 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.
After selling Kiehl’s to L’Oréal, the Heidegger family is ready to scale Retrouvé 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...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: How age impacts shopping behaviors on Amazon 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...
Glossy Storytellers 2024: Charlotte Tansill, WPP Onefluence, led by Ogilvy PR 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...
Inside Lush’s brick-and-mortar store remodel After leaving social media in 2021, the 30-year-old brand began to rethink how it educates its customers about its products and mission. Today, the 30-year-old brand is remodeling its 260 U.S. stores using old-school grocery store tactics to inform and entice customers. The mall bath-and-body brand’s strategy includes the streamlining...