This week, I checked in with analysts to better understand the strategy behind beauty brands “trading down” in retail toward more affordable wholesale partners. This can be seen in E.l.f. Cosmetics’ November expansion into Dollar General Stores and prestige fragrance and body-care brand By Rosie Jane’s October entry into Target....

Glossy Beauty Podcast hosts Lexy Lebsack and Sara Spruch-Feiner count down six can’t-miss moments from 2024 including clips that demonstrate the changing role of retail, the importance of live selling, the rise of Gen Alpha beauty shoppers and more.

This week I checked in with retail analysts to unpack the changes happening in American drugstores and how they could impact the beauty and wellness industries. This includes the "drugstore deserts” popping up across the country due to the closure of 586 CVS locations, 408 Rite Aid locations and 259...

For consumers, 2024 was the year of the scalp. But for executives like Christine Hall, the work to develop this category for the U.S. market started nearly a decade ago. Partially fueled by the growing attention on the scalp in Asian countries like Korea and Japan, Hall and her team...

Versed founder and serial entrepreneur Katherine Power and its longtime creative director Lola Gonzalez Marra join the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss Versed’s redesign, which was released this week and includes a significant rebrand of packaging, language and visuals.

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...

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...

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...

“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.