Beauty & Wellness Briefing: As Credo buys Follain, what is the state of clean beauty? This week, I dive into Credo's acquisition of Follain, and what it means for the larger clean beauty landscape.
NuFace co-founder Tera Peterson: ‘Don’t try to be everything’ Though deal flow continues to be hot, NuFace's founders Carol Cole and her daughters, Tera Peterson and Kim Morales, are focused on building their brand while keeping themselves at the helm for as long as possible.
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Urban Decay makes the case for digital reinvention With DTC holdouts like Glossier finally pushing into retail, omnichannel has become the only strategy to win in beauty. And for players that have existing wholesale and digital strategies in place, fine-tuning those playbooks is an always-on need. Case in point: L'Oréal-owned Urban Decay has been retooling its digital presence...
JLo Beauty’s Lisa Sequino: ‘A lot of people can talk the talk, but you need grit’ There is no telling if beauty has reached its peak celebrity brand moment. But Lisa Sequino, co-founder and CEO of JLo Beauty, said that doesn't matter; her company doesn't solely trade on Jennifer Lopez's famous persona. In fact, Sequino said JLo Beauty is as much about pro-living as it is...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: LVMH’s Les Journées Particulières is back with an eye on newness Later this month, LVMH brings back Les Journées Particulières, a behind-the-scenes look at its many luxury maisons. On hiatus since 2018, I take a dive into the company's plans with a focus on beauty and newness.
Oura’s Tom Hale and Karina Kogan: ‘Consumers are thinking about longevity’ While health tracking devices are not new, Ōura, best known for its $300 Oura Ring, has somehow seamlessly bridged the worlds of technology, wellness and design, so much so that Kim Kardashian, Jack Dorsey and Prince Harry are all fans. That unlock happened largely due to the ring's focus on...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Inside brand incubator The Center’s playbook Just as The Center was launching, incubators like SOS Beauty were becoming more forward facing and retailers like Target and QVC were making a go of creating their own owned brands alone. The private label beauty segment was becoming so very crowded. Flash forward three years and that crowding is...
How ‘rebelling’ against norms led Allison McNamara to found Mara Beauty "I thought of the idea for Mara and I didn't know what would become of it," Allison McNamara said, on the latest episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast. "I went on the journey of creating the business but had no true intention of like, 'I'm going to build this type...
Boy Smells’ Matthew Herman on throwing the old rules of fragrance out the window "We didn't have a ton of high aspirations for the brand when we first started it because we really wanted it to be a recreational little side hustle. It was in years two and three that we really started to get serious. We left our jobs. We were running the...