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For These Beauty Products, It’s What’s on the Outside That Counts
Brands are designing products and packaging meant to be clicked, tapped and touched. Actually using them is beside the point.

For These Beauty Products, It’s What’s on the Outside That Counts
Brands are designing products and packaging meant to be clicked, tapped and touched. Actually using them is beside the point.

2016’s Hottest Beauty Brands: Where Are They Now?
While social media is nostalgic for the year that birthed the cut crease and contouring, many of the brands that benefitted at the time are now behind the curve.

2016’s Hottest Beauty Brands: Where Are They Now?
While social media is nostalgic for the year that birthed the cut crease and contouring, many of the brands that benefitted at the time are now behind the curve.

The Brands Taking Boomers Back to Their Punk Roots
Older consumers are embracing ever more vibrant shades of hair dye, tempted by unique formulations and maturer marketing. Gen X founders say it’s a shift, not a trend.

The Brands Taking Boomers Back to Their Punk Roots
Older consumers are embracing ever more vibrant shades of hair dye, tempted by unique formulations and maturer marketing. Gen X founders say it’s a shift, not a trend.

This Valentine’s Day, Beauty Brands Look to the Single Shopper
As brands gear up for the Feb. 14 holiday, they must reckon with shoppers who are increasingly single, cynical and happier on their own than with a date. If sex (or even love) won’t sell, what will?

This Valentine’s Day, Beauty Brands Look to the Single Shopper
As brands gear up for the Feb. 14 holiday, they must reckon with shoppers who are increasingly single, cynical and happier on their own than with a date. If sex (or even love) won’t sell, what will?
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How to Sell the Same Lipstick Twice
Resurrecting hero products can be a lucrative beauty strategy — but change the formula too much, and risk a crash-and-burn.

How to Sell the Same Lipstick Twice
Resurrecting hero products can be a lucrative beauty strategy — but change the formula too much, and risk a crash-and-burn.

Beauty Brands Are Finding Their Next Customers on the Operating Table
As interest in surgical procedures and so-called “tweakments” builds, a new cottage industry is emerging. Brands are targeting patients looking to maximise, extend and protect the results.

Beauty Brands Are Finding Their Next Customers on the Operating Table
As interest in surgical procedures and so-called “tweakments” builds, a new cottage industry is emerging. Brands are targeting patients looking to maximise, extend and protect the results.

Why Are Barrette Sales Spiking? Thank Ozempic.
Hair loss is on the rise, in step with GLP-1 drug usage and general stress levels, and causing a measurable shift in clip preferences.

Why Are Barrette Sales Spiking? Thank Ozempic.
Hair loss is on the rise, in step with GLP-1 drug usage and general stress levels, and causing a measurable shift in clip preferences.

The Pumpkin Spice Shortage Is Here
How climate change and YouTube bakes made beauty brands panic — and pivot — from one of their favourite ingredients this year.

The Pumpkin Spice Shortage Is Here
How climate change and YouTube bakes made beauty brands panic — and pivot — from one of their favourite ingredients this year.
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Why Press-On Nails Might Overtake the Gel Market
Cheaper to buy and easier to apply, press-on nails are coming for the billion-dollar nail salon business. (And for Megan Fox’s manicure.)

Why Press-On Nails Might Overtake the Gel Market
Cheaper to buy and easier to apply, press-on nails are coming for the billion-dollar nail salon business. (And for Megan Fox’s manicure.)

At the CFDA Awards, Recession Beauty Hacks Get Real
Guests like Addison Rae, Chloe Malle and Angel Reese talked getting ready for the demi-Met Gala — and the blush shades, drugstore hairsprays and makeup counters that got them there.

At the CFDA Awards, Recession Beauty Hacks Get Real
Guests like Addison Rae, Chloe Malle and Angel Reese talked getting ready for the demi-Met Gala — and the blush shades, drugstore hairsprays and makeup counters that got them there.