Inkbox Co-Founders Explore Buyback As BIC Prepares To Shutter Brand
Co-founders Tyler and Braden Handley are exploring a buyback of Inkbox as BIC prepares to shutter the buzzy temporary tattoo brand this quarter and dismantle its skin-focused division. The potential buyback and closure come roughly...
New Report: Aesthetics Market Growth Cools With Maturation As GLP-1 Boom Tempers
The American aesthetics market is entering a more mature phase, marked by slower growth, greater category divergence and a shift toward operational efficiency rather than rapid expansion, according to a new report from med-spa data analytics...
6 Beauty Marketing Predictions For 2026: Anti-Ambition, Emotion-First Branding, Ownable Rituals And More
“People talk a lot about community, but nobody really knows how to build one,” says Naomi Emiko, co-founder of marketing agency TNGE Global. Even if the infrastructure behind it is a mystery, she predicts “community” will...
Beauty With A Mission: Osier Connects Addiction Recovery To Skincare
A prominent figure in the substance abuse treatment industry, Cheree Ashley opened three recovery and treatment centers—Bright Future Recovery, Avila Heights Recovery and Robles Ranch—shortly after becoming sober in 2015. “I used to be intravenously...
Why Purpose-Led Brands Need More Than Mission To Succeed Today
Missions haven’t been enough to salvage mission-based beauty brands lately. World of LLA, which was dedicated to self-care routines for mental health, Violets Are Blue, which was started by a breast cancer survivor and supported cancer programs,...
