The Skinny Confidential’s Lauryn Bosstick: ‘I don’t claim to be an expert, I’m a practitioner of beauty’ Lauryn Bosstick, the blogger, podcast host and beauty brand executive -- she launched her Skinny Confidential-branded product line in April -- has had an unusual route to becoming a founder. But for Bosstick, being a disrupter has always been her M.O.
Modiface grows capabilities with Google’s Vertex AI On Tuesday, Google Cloud announced the wider availability of Vertex AI, a managed machine learning platform that allows outside companies to accelerate their own AI models. L’Oréal's ModiFace has already begun working with Google's Vertex AI to improve its own machine learning model by providing the beauty tech tool more...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: A year after Covid-19, Amazon remains a compelling proposition for beauty This week, I'm taking stock of the new beauty brands launching on Amazon and the partner making it possible.
Bybi co-founders Elsie Rutterford and Dominika Minarovic: ‘The term sustainable is a little bit problematic’ For British beauty brand Bybi, which came to market in 2017, its road to "sustainability" has been a work in progress. "The term sustainable is a little bit problematic in itself. It's not regulated, so what does it even mean?" said Elsie Rutterford, co-founder of Bybi, on this week's episode...
Make Beauty resets under new ownership After a two-year hiatus, Make Beauty relaunches this week under new ownership. Ben Bennett, founder and CEO of incubator and investment firm The Center, in partnership with Carrie Barber, formerly of Violet Grey and Sephora, purchased Make late last year. The brand was available for sale after founder Nikos Mouyiaris'...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: What is beauty’s audio opportunity? This week, I'm discussing the various ways beauty companies can engage with listeners, aka shoppers.
Ulta Beauty leans into the curly and textured hair category with first subscription box On Friday, the beauty retailer announced its partnership with monthly subscription box Curlbox, an Atlanta-based company founded by Myleik Teele. Together, Ulta Beauty and Curlbox have created three boxes that will be available on Curlbox.com. The boxes, which will be sold for $25 and have a $98 value, will be...
Trinny London’s Trinny Woodall on building ‘a brand she can live the rest of her life with’ The pandemic helped solidify Trinny Woodall's point of differentiation. Her brand remains digital-only -- a saving grace during Covid-19 -- and banks on its Match2Me technology that personalizes the makeup assortment a customer sees based on their hair, eye and skin color. Last year, Trinny London hit about $62 million...
Beauty & Wellness Briefing: Is L.A. becoming the new beauty capital of the world? This week, I head for L.A. (at least mentally) and check in on Twitter Spaces.