Sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and Millennials, Gen X has all the time been the proverbial middle child of beauty marketing: often missed and continuously undervalued. But what they lack in attention, they make up for in importance, growing their spend greater than every other generation on prestige beauty, in keeping with data from Circana.
And their power is simply growing.
“Gen X goes to be larger than the Boomers in the subsequent 4 years. It’s time for the wonder industry to concentrate on them,” said Larissa Jensen, senior vp and global beauty industry adviser at Circana. “Why? Because beauty is just not nearly youth.”
Jensen sees not only potential, but in addition a necessity. “As you age, your skin changes. Consumers have...
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