PARIS – L’Occitane Group has named Yves Blouin as its new executive director and managing director. The executive succeeds Sylvain Desjonquères at the natural beauty maker and seller. Desjonquères will remain on the board of directors of L’Occitane Groupe SA. Blouin, 56, formerly worked at Chanel as managing director and general manager in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Middle East […]
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Patrick Starrr and Patrick Ta are products of Instagram beauty's golden age. Like many influencers, both have promoted other brands for years. But they're now part of a new establishment buoyed by beauty-incubator companies and investors eager to share in the spoils of the industry. Turning content into commerce, as these two makeup artists have done with their up-and-coming brands, […]
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Computer and video game graphics these days are so high res, sometimes it's hard to believe you're looking at a digital rendering and not something caught in 4K. But with the 2020s already being, uh, wild, it makes sense that folks are feeling a sense of nostalgia and paying homage to simpler times — when the outside was fully open […]
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While 2020 proved to be a nail-biter of a year for the mass market, data from IRI shows that the nail category actually ended up on top. Data from IRI, ending the week of Dec. 27, showed nail products exhibiting double-digit growth for the year — but other categories were not so lucky. “If you were a beauty manufacturer in […]
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We're not even halfway through the first month of 2021, and I already know which foundation I'll exclusively be reaching for the next 11 months: the new Essence Pretty Natural Hydrating Foundation. As a beauty editor whose primary job responsibility is to test out copious amounts of new makeup, this isn't the most realistic New Years' resolution, but this illuminating, […]
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A Sephora-commissioned study illustrates the domino effect of racial bias in U.S. retail. “The Racial Bias in Retail Study” is a compilation of research conducted over the course of a year by Kelton Global and LRW in partnership with retail racism experts Dr. Cassi Pittman Claytor, Dr. David Crockett, Whitney Dunlap-Fowler and Dr. Patricia Raspberry. It draws both from academic […]
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Essie ended 2020 on a high note. As of the end of last year, the brand is only producing formulas that are vegan and free of eight potentially harmful ingredients traditionally found in nail polish, such as toluene, dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, formaldehyde resin, camphor, ethyl tosylamide, xylene, triphenyl and phosphate. Consumers can reach out to Essie customer care to see […]
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Is 2021 the year Coty Inc. finally turns around the business? The company has struggled since it bought 41 beauty brands from Procter & Gamble in 2016. Many of those brands showed up in rough shape, and Coty executives struggled to fix them. At the highest levels, Coty executives also struggled to keep their jobs — the company has had […]
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In the Before Times, my makeup routine could be described as "minimal at best." Before heading to work (or anywhere, for that matter), I'd dab on a touch of concealer, a wash of bronzer, two coats of mascara, and a pinky-nude lipstick — and call it a day. Now, though, after almost a full year of working from home, the […]
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The Ordinary’s cult-favorite Colours line is gaining a new category: concealers. Launching on The Ordinary’s web site on Jan. 19, the Colours concealers will be available in 36 shades for $5.80 and will later roll out to retail partner Ulta Beauty, where the Ordinary started offering its Colours foundation earlier this year. Industry sources estimate the concealers line will reach […]
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