For this week’s body-care conversation, Glossy sat down with Marianne Fonseca, the Brazilian model, lymphatic drainage expert and co-founder of body care brand Gente Beauty, which launched in September 2022. Gente Beauty pays homage to Fonseca's Brazlian roots by incorporating ingredients native to Brazil in its products. Since its inception, it has...

In August, Function of Beauty introduced a new hair-care range, Function of Beauty PRO, exclusively at 300 Sephora locations in North America and online. In step, the brand became the first custom hair-care line to debut at Sephora. The pro-tested line, consisting of 19 products, is fully customizable based on...

Live Tinted received $10 million in Series A funding in March and expanded into Sephora Canada in July. Already, the brand was available for purchase in Sephora U.S., Ulta Beauty and Target. But Deepica Mutyala, founder and CEO, said this is only the beginning for the brand.

In October, Nadya Okamoto, alongside a coalition of period care founders from brands including The Honey Pot, Saalt, Cora, Lola, Rael, Here We Flo and Diva, announced The Tampon Tax Back Coalition. According to Period Law, a group of lawyers who volunteer their time to advance state and federal period...

In February, Ulta Beauty rolled out a luxury assortment under the helm of svp of merchandising Maria Salcedo. Featuring prestige brands like Chanel, Hourglass, Dior and Natasha Denona, it is available online and in 200 stores nationwide. Before, Ulta carried some luxury fragrances, but this expansion into luxury beauty and...

Since receiving a $40 million growth equity investment in January from venture capital firm Provenance and Silas Capital, Makeup By Mario, founded by celebrity makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic in 2020, has been in growth and expansion mode. Dedivanovic got his start as a makeup artist at Sephora and rose to...

Few brands have managed to dominate a market like Dyson, with its Supersonic hair dryer launched April 2016. In its first year after launch, it became the bestselling hair dryer in the U.K. and greatly contributed to the company’s overall sales boost of 45%. The product, which now retails between...

Since taking over the reins of Australian skin-care brand Aesop in 2003, CEO Michael O’Keeffe has been on a mission to grow the brand from an indie, salon-driven company to a luxury skin-care giant. Twenty years in, Aesop is on the growth path O’Keeffe had always envisioned for the company....

While the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream catapulted the brand’s awareness, Sol de Janeiro’s expansion into the perfume mist category is what really boosted the brand’s bottom line, said Heela Yang, the brand’s co-founder and CEO. According to its parent company, L’Occitane, which bought the company at the end of 2021,...