French beauty companies can now apply to export to China without prior animal testing on their products.

Clean beauty, hair care, and long-wear color: where the mass market is hedging its bets in 2021.

The executive says the brand is getting back to growth.

As the lines between prestige and mass continue to blur, retailers are taking a multipronged approach to reinventing their beauty departments.

The company continues to partner with professionals at medical spas, beauty spas and salons as part of its strategy to reach consumers.

The online platform sells Black- and brown-owned beauty brands.

France is the first EU country where beauty-makers are able to apply for a certificate of “good manufacturing practices” and safety assessment needed for exporting such products.

Changes on the merchandising team come after strong headwinds in makeup sales.

The world’s largest beauty-maker joins almost 100 beauty brands in ceasing the manufacture of badger-hair brushes.

The agreement, dubbed Vertical Beauty Alliance, offers full services for brands going to market.

Shana Randhava, who was in the new business development role before Smith, has taken on a larger role leading Estée Lauder’s New Incubation Ventures.

The in-depth report aims to quantify the depths of bias in retail.

Cathay Capital has taken a stake in the 15-year-old, Paris-based niche fragrance brand.

Blanca Juti will also join the beauty group’s executive committee starting in April.

Reed’s fluid fashions have been worn by Harry Styles, Solange Knowles and Troye Sivan.

At $19 each, that would put the company at well over $10 million in product sales since launch. 

Ipsy is adding Pat McGrath Labs, Briogeo, Uoma and other Black-owned beauty brands into Glam Bags this year.

The beauty company announced that its on-demand custom lipstick will land at Yves Saint Laurent this spring.

A listing of some key venture capital and private equity players in the beauty space.

The executive now also heads up the French beauty maker’s corporate social responsibility.

A new report from Cosmetify outlines the cheapest — and most costly — markets for buying beauty.

Data from Spate shows growing search volume for different social media aesthetics.

The global brand president of Estée Lauder on cross-generational, cross-geographical relevance on the eve of Lauder’s 75th anniversary.

Green’s goal for the campaign, which benefits frontline workers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is $100,000.

As of the end of 2020, all formulas being produced and distributed by Essie are vegan and “eight-free.”

When it comes to 2021, is there anyone who isn’t planning for better days ahead? Here, New Year’s resolutions from some of beauty’s most forward-looking leaders.

Experts project for consumers to take more personal control of their individual health and wellness in the year ahead.

“Every tenet of our business has to do with breaking the rules,” Dineh Mohajer said.

E-commerce, curbside pickup, Ulta Beauty with Target and Sephora with Kohl’s. The beauty retailing shifts you should pay attention to for 2021.

The most successful indie brands are tapping into the evolving consumer zeitgeist of today.

“We want to ensure they are getting the products they need, want and desire.”

Hero’s sales grew 300 percent in 2020, according to founder Ju Rhyu.

“She arrived on the scene and went, ‘What have you guys been doing for the last five years?'”

The business filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and plans to liquidate.

Follain, which took Aurora James’ 15 Percent Pledge last year, will support five brand partners to start.

Goldman Sachs is backing the beauty technology company.

The Edgewell-Harry’s deal was also called off after an FTC complaint.

L’Occitane Group’s VC fund and accelerator Obratori, and Philosophy founder Cristina Carlino, have taken a minority stake in the direct-to-consumer, sustainable deodorant brand with paper packaging.

“We don’t take what we see happening and working in the U.S. market at face value.”

Coty plans to launch KKW Beauty into new categories, including skin care.

Herb + Flora is a skin-care brand rooted in exercise science.

Cocobaba is named after its hero ingredient, coconut oil, but it’s also an homage to “baba” — the nickname shared between Willis, her husband, actor Bruce Willis, and daughters Evelyn and Mabel.

The anticipated follow-up to the brand’s foundations will launch on Jan. 19.

The Queen’s 2021 Honors List highlighted McGrath’s contributions to fashion and beauty as well as diversity.

Arizona Muse is the brand’s first global advocate for sustainability.

Summit workshop session examines how brands can leverage social media and build community, too.

THG has paid $350 million in cash for the U.S. retailer of prestige skin-care and specialty beauty brands.

It is best known for its Skin Peel pre-serum, which is popular in Japan and China.

The consumer firm will use the Revlon brand on hair-care appliances and tools for a long, long, long time.