Erica La Sala
Sephora’s Spring Savings Event Sales Decline As Competitive And Economic Pressures Mount
Feverish beauty industry competition and consumer unease are among several factors contributing to sales during Sephora’s spring Savings Event sliding from last year. Data from market research firm YipitData shows...
Juice Beauty Runs Out Of Juice. Has Clean Beauty, Too?
Juice Beauty has run out of juice. The clean beauty pioneer—started by Karen Behnke in 2005, it filed for a trademark on the term “clean beauty” a decade ago and launched National Clean Beauty Day in...
Focused On Bigger Issues, Ulta Beauty And Target Step Back From Shop-In-Shop Expansion
As Ulta Beauty and Target face consumer caution, the slowing momentum of beauty industry growth, tariff impacts, fierce competition and more, the decision to pause further expansion of...
Science-Backed Skincare Brand Mark Los Angeles Launches Retail And Spa Distribution With Formula Fig
Mark Los Angeles, the luxury skincare brand rooted in the principles of pharmaceutical science, has made its brick-and-mortar debut at Formula Fig. The seven-unit high-tech facial chain has its $48 E.Q....
Estée Lauder’s Aggressive Tactics Drive Up Amazon’s Beauty Advertising Rates, According To Envision Horizons Report
Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.’s Amazon presence, which started last year after prolonged reluctance to join the e-commerce giant’s assortment, has skyrocketed advertising rates in the beauty category on it, according to a new report from Amazon growth agency...
Ciele Cosmetics And Remi Cachet On Building Thriving Expert-Led Brands
More than a century ago, Max Factor leveraged his makeup artistry with a brand, and ever since, beauty professionals have been following in his footsteps, although interest in their brands has waxed and waned. These days, professional expertise...
Celebrity Beauty Brands Are Bigger Than Ever—But Their Growth Is Slowing
Notwithstanding a few epic busts (Jared Leto’s lifestyle brand Twentynine Palms shuttering less than a year after launch and JLo Beauty’s Sephora eviction), celebrity beauty brands are bigger than ever. They surpassed $1 billion in sales for...
