Instead of rugged Brawny men, sexy Axe guys or salt-and-peppered Cialis Baby Boomers there are soft color schemes, branded “merch,” diverse models and sans-serif font. Call it Glossier for guys or the Goopication of men’s products, but it exhibits a changing attitude about men’s personal care toward integrating compassion, empathy...

Serving up fashion with a side of beauty and wellness is trending for retailers. Today, luxury online marketplace Orchard Mile pressed go on its first loyalty program, a multi-tier, point-based initiative granting regular customers complimentary services from a range of outside companies, largely in the beauty space. Co-founder and CEO...

With retail competition heating up, brands are upgrading their online shopping experience. After all, getting customers to an e-commerce site is one (increasingly costly) thing, but getting them to then spend is quite another. Sealing the deal requires a site that’s, at the very least, on par with the competition....

Gen Z is a distinctly different type of customer than millennials; they grew up online, eschew email and Facebook in favor of Instagram and YouTube, and consider brand transparency and diversity to be absolute necessities.

Trower gave Glossy a rundown of an average workday, which included meeting over french fries at Fred’s, shopping the Estée Lauder company store and hitting a hair salon at 7:30 a.m.

Notably, brick-and-mortar stores are not part of the offline plans. Instead, the brand is looking at establishing hotels, restaurants and spas in its home base of Sharon Springs in upstate New York.

In the early 2010s, the “Uber for” model expanded to include beauty services. Ever since, consumers have been using apps to book at-home appointments with makeup artists, hair stylists, and even masseuses and airbrush-tanning technicians. But salons aren't doomed, despite clients' shifting habits.

Follain founder Tara Foley walked us through a typical day in her life, which included a press preview event for a new store in Bethesda, meetings and phone calls with her staff, and dinner with her son.

When Dollar Shave Club was sold to Unilever in 2016 for $1 billion, the direct-to-consumer trend became a bonafide proof of concept. Now, as personalization and wellness have come to dominate the beauty conversation, DSC is looking at how it can continue to create proofs of concept in those areas.

Coty has moved quickly to refresh some of the brands it acquired after merging with Procter & Gamble in 2016. After its splashy Covergirl relaunch late last year, the beauty giant has moved on to the at-home hair-color brand Clairol.

These platforms seem to view cryptocurrency as the equivalent of a new type of rewards program that gets users to complete certain actions in return for a virtual currency.

Nylon has also turned to affiliate links, building out events like its annual Beauty Awards, creating more inclusive content, and potentially augmented reality to further bolster the business.