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Beneath the Surface Beauty's New Value Equation: Price Sensitivity Shifts To Performance Sensitivity
How Sophisticated Are Beauty Shoppers About Price And Value?
To accompany a Feb. 12 article on Merit chronicling its rise to $200 million in retail sales last year, Business of Fashion created a chart comparing the price of Merit’s foundation stick with foundation sticks from...
Bite Beauty Founder Susanne Langmuir Returns To Sephora With Skin-First Makeup Brand Lixr
In May last year, Susanne Langmuir emailed Alison Hahn, then SVP of makeup and fragrance at Sephora, about a new project, cautiously testing her readiness to reenter the knife fight of beauty specialty retail. “These are my best...
Kline Identifies Likely Indie Beauty Acquisition Targets
Science, not sex appeal, is the beauty industry’s strongest selling point today. That’s the conclusion Kline & Company. is drawing in a new report listing 20 likely indie beauty acquisition targets across skincare,...
Inertia, Olive Young’s Top Period Care Brand, Launches In The U.S. With New Absorbent Technology
Inertia, a South Korean startup founded by scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, is applying new technology to a category whose core absorbent materials have changed little in decades: disposable period...
The Top 10 Brands Driving Fragrance Sales On TikTok Shop
Once upon a time, discovering a new fragrance meant wandering a department store, blotter strip in hand. Today, it happens mid-scroll. On TikTok, a creator can describe a scent as a “second skin” or “memory you...
