This week, I checked in with Denise De Baun, the CEO of Helight, a buzzy new sleep device, as well as experts in the sleep space, to better understand this growing wellness category. Additionally, The Body Shop reenters the U.S. market, Estée Lauder gets a new spokesperson, and Helen of Troy reports a sales tumble.| Glossy
The owner of personal care and beauty brands Olay and Gillette received a boost in sales thanks to double-digit growth from the likes of SK-II. But the company will cut 15% of its non-manufacturing jobs by fiscal year 2027.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
At Glossy’s AI Marketing Strategies virtual event, Beekman 1802’s David Baker shared how the skin-care brand is using AI to personalize marketing, uncover new customer insights and boost efficiency without losing its human touch.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
On the latest Glossy Beauty Podcast, Helen Steed of Steed & Friends takes listeners through mini case studies, examining her work on products like Rhode's iconic phone case, Glossier's first foray into body care and Merit's logo.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Fresh off its Kering Beauté acquisition announcement this weekend, L’Oréal Group reported a 3.4% like-for-like sales jump on Tuesday during its latest earrings meeting. L'Oréal Group CEO Nicolas Hieronimus credited hair-care and fragrance sales, and acceleration of the U.S. and Chinese markets, plus reported another quarter of blockbuster sales in the Middle East. Hieronimus also discussed the Kering deal, including the value of Creed’s high-net-worth clientele.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Despite endless launches in the hair-care and hair tools sectors, the wig market has remained relatively stagnant for decades. For entrepreneur Aasiyah Abdulsalam, that white space spelled opportunity.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
In two weeks, Bubble will launch its latest product, on its e-commerce site. But before that, it's trying something new: It's offering the product as a free add-on to Glamsquad's in-home makeup service. The service is dubbed "Bubble Skin Prep."| Beauty Archives - Glossy
This week, I checked in with two former L’Oréal Group execs to better understand what the L’Oreal and Kering deal means for the beauty and wellness industries. Additionally, Givauden’s sales jump, Ulta Beauty hires a new CFO, and Therabody taps Kendall Jenner as the new celebrity face of its beauty division.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
With more and more younger perfume consumers adopting a "fragrance wardrobe" over a single signature scent, niche brands are experimenting with mini versions of their bottles that offer a more accessible price without sacrificing the visual appeal of a full-sized bottle. But producing multiple size formats can be a costly endeavor.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Amy Kapolnek, founder of the Fwrd Group, sheds light on the marketing strategies she is advising clients to employ for the 2025 holiday season.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
The co-founder of Whole Foods is back with a holistic wellness concept that seeks to replace one’s primary care doctor, gym membership and wellness routine with a one-stop-shop membership. Love.Life, which opened its flagship location in Los Angeles in 2024, is quietly plotting its expansion.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
When brides think about their makeup, Lancôme wants to be the first brand on their mind. To do so, it's embarking on a multi-pronged strategy to show — or remind — brides that it has always been a purveyor of bridal elegance.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Since 2019, Olive & June has entered the at-home manicure space and prioritized innovation. It already offers two kinds of press-on nails: glue press-ons and tab press-ons. Now, it's launching Pressies — press-ons specifically made for kids and tweens.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Innersense, the 20-year-old California-based clean hair-care brand, is growing 32% year-over-year, thanks, in part, to the runaway success of its salon professional program. Glossy sat down with CEO Greg Starkman to learn how the brand is reaching and partnering with salons and pro stylists.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
With fragrance still booming, now is as good a time as ever to undertake a rebranding. But while fresh packaging and scent profiles can earn traction with new consumers, they can also alienate longtime fans.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
While the company’s total revenue for the first nine months of 2025 reached €58 billion ($63 billion), down 2% organically, Q3 returned to growth. The Perfumes & Cosmetics unit rose 2% organically during the quarter, and the Selective Retailing division, which houses Sephora and luxury travel retailer DFS, climbed 7%. Together, they became proof that consumer excitement can still beat macro gloom.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Ulta Beauty’s highly-anticipated digital marketplace, called the UB Marketplace, has officially launched. Ulta’s team hopes to supercharge its online business by offering thousands of new products from trending and emerging brands and categories without the consumer recognizing any difference in the online or app shopping experiences. Glossy sat down with Ulta Beauty execs to learn more about the new launch.| Beauty Archives - Glossy
Executive coach Angela Bennett spent more than two decades working across L’Oréal and Estee Lauder, but today, she’s part of a growing number of certified professional executive coaches who help individuals and organizations to build stronger teams. In today’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, she introduces us to the world of executive coaching and shares her top three universal tips for executives.| Glossy
On this week’s episode of “The Glossy Beauty Podcast,” co-hosts Sara Spruch-Feiner and Lexy Lebsack dive into one of beauty’s buzziest topics: Gen Alpha’s rapid emergence as consumers in their own right.| Podcasts Archives - Glossy
Discover Dove's latest "Beauty Never Gets Old" campaign, celebrating women over 60 by showcasing real-life users of Dove Beauty Bar.| Glossy
In recent years, celebrity-backed beauty brands have become a dime a dozen. But by 2025, as skin-care and cosmetics face a sales slump and wellness continues to rise, celebrities like Queen Latifah, Serena Williams and Vanessa Hudgens are now lending their star power to health and wellness companies.| Glossy
Gen Alpha has another new brand made just for them — and this time, it was formulated by Ron Robinson, founder of Beauty Stat and the cosmetic chemist behind Hailey Bieber's Rhode. Robinson worked with 13-year-old Coco Granderson and her mother, Danielle Granderson, to create the new collection.| Glossy
After starting as a brick-and-mortar nail salon in Los Angeles in 2013, Olive & June closed up shop in 2020, with founder and CEO Sarah Gibson Tuttle pivoting her focus to DIY manis. By November 2024, Helen of Troy had acquired the brand for $225 million in cash and a $15 million earnout subject to performance over three years. Now, nearly a year post-acquisition, Gibson Tuttle joins the Glossy Beauty Podcast to discuss life after selling her brand.| Podcasts Archives - Glossy
Over the past of couple years "community" has become a buzzword. Still, it's easy to forget that it really is important — not just for sales, but also for a brand's reputation. "You can buy impressions and you can buy reach, but engagement really shows the true value of a brand," said Malena Higuera, CEO of Noyz.| Glossy
Sincerely Yours will debut in Sephora, on September 6. While many Sephora brands have targeted Gen Z, Sincerely Yours appears to be the retailer's first clear bid directly for Gen Alpha's wallets.| Glossy
The U.S. Open has long attracted commercial attention as brands seek to capitalize on the star power of tennis players like two-time champion Naomi Osaka or emerging contender Ben Shelton. But with attendance steadily growing, new initiatives and activations are putting the focus not solely on the athletes, but also on the fans — whether they’re there for the tennis, or for the vibes.| Glossy
The emergence of the internet and social media revolutionized the fragrance industry in recent years, leading to an explosion in new launches and fostering a world of creators who make their living speaking and writing about perfume. But the next digital frontier — artificial intelligence — has sparked far more ambivalent feelings.| Glossy
L’Oréal is doubling down on AI-powered marketing, rolling out agentic tools and ramping up social commerce spend across Europe.| Glossy
Parke sells denim, including takes on the barrel trend and the dark-indigo straight-legged style, the latter of which is one of the most relevant of the season. But it is its mock neck sweatshirts ($125) that have nearly broken the internet time and time again.| Glossy
Jordan Samuel, a former ballet dancer, launched his eponymous brand in 2013, with just two products. He has grown, since then, but remained small, which he calls, a "badge of honor." The brand is beloved by leading skin care influencers like Caroline Hirons. It is primarily DTC but is carried at the fast facial bar, Formula Fig, as well as C.O. Bigelow, and available to international customers via Cult Beauty.| Glossy
While mega brands like E.l.f Cosmetics and Tarte Cosmetics have publicly discussed how successful TikTok Shop is, the guaranteed success of TikTok Shop is still in question.| Glossy
