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September 2022

26 Sep

Highest-selling U.S. Beauty Brands on China’s Tmall Global –

Tmall Global, the Chinese e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba, is a hot spot for U.S. beauty brands looking for to enter the market.  Latest data from marketing and technology company, WPIC, shows brands including Estée Lauder, Olay and La Mer have been longtime front-runners on the platform, while CeraVe is a more recent entrant, having only entered the highest 10 following a big push in the course of 2021.  Dr. Jart, which Lauder acquired in 2019 as one among the sweetness giant’s first acquisitions of Asia-based beauty brands, recently fell out of the highest 20 rating, while Lauder-owned Too Faced shut down its storefront on the platform in July.  In accordance with Jacob Cooke, chief executive officer and founder at WPIC, this list...
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26 Sep

How Chefs From St. Martin Brought ‘The ‘Melting Pot

2022 Essence Festival of Culture held in Recent Orleans, Louisiana- July 1-3, 2022 St.Martin natives Chef Kareem Brooks and Chef Kénila Hyman gave a culinary demonstration in the course of the first-ever ESSENCE Eats Food And Wine Festival on the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture. The chefs taught participants the way to make a number of tasty staple dishes from the Caribbean island, including traditional favorites like dumplings with crab, johnny cakes (or journey cakes) and saltfish. Those in attendance also got to taste these dishes that so many enjoy from the island that’s generally known as the culinary capital of the Caribbean.  For Chef Brooks, it was a singular opportunity to spotlight some dishes from his beloved island and connect individuals with the island’s...
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26 Sep

We have Finally Heard Ciara’s Prayer, But What About

Ciara has been and can all the time be the “it” girl, and he or she’s on a mission to make other young Black women and girls feel that very same confidence that she does. With the debut of her skincare brand, OAM (On a Mission), the “I Bet” songstress has introduced five skincare products filled with Vitamin C at a clinical skincare level. Complete with a foaming cleanser ($28), brightening pads ($28), a 20 percent vitamin C serum ($62), a watch cream ($35), and a moisturizer ($43), OAM is specially designed to bring the life back into your skin and brighten all skin tones without the harm of bleaching due to the energetic Tri-C Pro-Peptide Complex in all the products. “I’ve...
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