Per new data from retailer SkinStore, which cross-referenced beauty trends on the platform with Google searches, TikTok users’ interests run the gamut from internal supplements to skin care tools and procedures. Topping the list was gua sha, with nearly 3 million Google searches, and over 250 million views on TikTok. Dermaplaning didn’t see the same search resonance, but had 1 […]
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The beauty of Instagram is you can be transported to a nail studio thousands of miles away with just a tap of your finger. As you scroll through the feeds of the likes of Seoul's Eunkyung Park, aka Unistella, or Barcelona's Violetta Kurilenko, who you may know better as @yeswhatnails, you get a peek into the nail art trends of […]
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Slug: News Feed It wasn’t just companies’ balance sheets that suffered in 2020. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of beauty’s top executives took significant pay cuts, often on a voluntary basis, for the year. In April last year, The Estée Lauder Cos. said that several levels of employees — including president and chief executive officer Fabrizio Freda […]
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An alliance of C-suite marketing executives from all industries seeks greater diversity in corporate leadership. Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s chief operating officer, is one of 26 executives who have formed the Black Executive CMO Alliance, which also counts former beauty executives Candace Matthews, Kimberly Paige and Ukonwa Ojo as members. The alliance was founded by Jerri DeVard, a marketing veteran […]
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PARIS – Puig’s profits and sales were down in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the Spanish family-owned beauty and fashion company expects its business to amp up, and aims for sales to double in three years and triple in five years. It was the first time in recent history that Puig closed a year with a loss. Due […]
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Iconic actor and Oscar nominee Glenn Close just walked the 2021 red carpet, and it seems she has something up her sleeve — or rather, something in her gloves. Ahead of the show, Close posted a photo of herself getting ready for the award show in which we got a sneak peek of a gorgeous yellow manicure. In the photo, she's wearing […]
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We have always wondered how a celebrity can go from undesirably fat to drop dead gorgeously slim just for a movie. Their ability to simply lose or gain the weight when they need to is quite remarkable. It seems they can just lose all the weight whenever the heck they want. More recently is the case of British sensational Grammy-winner […]
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Moon Juice is the latest brand to go refillable. The skin care and wellness brand is shaking up its packaging offerings as consumers negotiate less and less on sustainability. First, its capsule supplements — such as SuperYou, SuperHair and SuperBeauty — will be available in refills, sent in biodegradable pouches. The brand will also be introducing lids made of corn-based […]
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By the numbers, 2020 was a murky year. Analysts who normally look at figures and craft corporate predictions found that in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, numbers weren’t telling the whole story. Sales at many beauty companies, including major players like L’Oréal and the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc., slid downward. Shutdowns negatively impacted consumer spending in beauty, and […]
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Before launching Alpyn Beauty, Kendra Kolb Butler worked in beauty marketing and public relations in New York City for brands like Dr. Dennis Gross and Clarins. “I had no intentions of starting the skin care line,” she said. “If anything, it was the furthest thing from my mind, because I had been in the industry and knew how tough the […]
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