Olamide Olawe: Gen-Z name defining beauty Olamide Olowe is 24, and Topicals, the skin-care company she co-founded in 2020, is not even the first she’s launched. Prior to founding Topicals, Olowe co-founded SheaGIRL (an offshoot of SheaMoisture) while she was in college. The brand was acquired by Unilever when the conglomerate purchased its parent company, Sundial...
Plastique Tiara: Gen-Z name defining beauty “I’m just a Vietnamese, fluid boy, who’s living in L.A. and crossdresses for a living. It’s nothing crazier,” Duc Tran Nguyen said, by way of introduction. Though clearly humble, Nguyen — better known as Plastique Tiara — has earned quite the fanbase. That includes 6.2 million followers on TikTok and 2...
Loserfruit: Gen-Z name defining beauty “It’s interesting that both the gaming and beauty worlds have the same flaw,” in that both are tethered to antiquated gender stereotypes, but in “completely opposite” ways, Kathleen Belsten, aka Loserfruit, told Glossy. It’s an astute observation by the gaming influencer, who made her first push into beauty at the...
Goop’s sold-out vibrator is back On Valentine’s Day, Goop launched its first vibrator. It sold out within less than 24 hours.
Snif is reinventing perfume for young online shoppers Founded by Phil Riportella and Bryan Edwards, Snif calls itself a “direct to consumer solution to buying fragrance,” which the co-founders said no brand has mastered. “We consider ourselves to be a counter industry or counter-counter culture."
The #cheapestthing Chanel sells is going viral on TikTok Meet the latest trend on TikTok: buying the #cheapestthing from luxury brands like Chanel, Gucci, Prada, and Hermès.
Beauty brands are selling merch to foster community Wearing merch -- whether it’s repping a band, a restaurant or a brand -- has always been a quick and easy way to showcase one's allegiance. It serves as a public declaration of membership to an unofficial club. “People like to support brands that they believe in and that share...
Meet Muneeb Shah, the dermatology resident with 6 million TikTok followers While everyone’s lives changed in quarantine, not everyone became a TikTok sensation. Then there's Muneeb Shah, a dermatology resident at Campbell University in North Carolina, who's about a year shy of becoming officially board-certified. (In short, Shah has finished medical school, but has not yet finished his residency.) He posted...
Lizzo partners with Dove to ‘transform social media’ Lizzo was on a livestream with Dove to discuss her involvement in the brand’s ongoing Self Esteem Project, which first launched in 2004. Through this partnership, the two parties hope to “transform social media into a more positive and empowering place for the next generation."