Insiders – Beautifaire

5 Mar

All the pieces’s coming up roses for the fragrance category. After years of decline, sales of scent are on the rise again, providing pandemic-weary consumers a much-needed shot of luxury and indulgence. Within the U.S, the category registered double-digit growth against each 2020 and 2019, in response to The NPD Group, with sales of perfumes, colognes and other juices up 61 percent. What higher time than to ask the individuals who know fragrance best — beauty industry insiders — to vote on the highest 100 fragrances of all time. In early January, we sent out greater than 300 ballots to industry insiders, comprised of founders, marketers, retailers, influencers, editors, perfumers, analysts and C-suite types, then tabulated their responses. (The total list of those...

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17 Nov

Meet the Latina Entrepreneur Behind the Go-To Nail Salon

by Beauty Tips

Beauty

On October 6, 2014, Andréa Vieira was 39, freshly relocated to Washington, D.C., and standing outside the doors of her soon-to-be-opened nail salon. Vieira knew nothing concerning the beauty business, but with $3 to her name, this thing just needed to work.The journalist-turned-speechwriter was residing in Seattle when a poor nail salon experience spurred a business idea — and a complete life change. “I quit my job — this shouldn't be an exaggeration — the subsequent day,” Vieira tells Allure. “I used to be like, guys, I’ve got to go open up a nail salon. And other people were like, ‘Wait, you’re going to do what?’” Vieira was still wearing the red polish from that manicure when she moved across...

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14 Oct

Industry Insiders and Executives Congratulate Linda Levy – WWD

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

The Fragrance Foundation has looked inward for its annual Circle of Champions honoree. The annual event will present the award to Linda G. Levy, the muse’s president. “The past six years on this role as president have allowed me to bring my depth of experience and deep love of this industry to raise our fragrance community,” Levy said of the glory. “It’s a celebration of strategic vision, intentional motion, passion and commitment.” Here, fragrance leaders on Levy’s impact on the fragrance business. “Linda is committed to creating the world of fragrance more accessible to everyone. Her passion for change, and dedication to inspiring and educating the subsequent generation of fragrance professionals, offers our industry so many exciting opportunities for the longer term.” — Sumit Bhasin,...

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3 Jul

The 20 Most Iconic Sunscreens in Beauty, as Voted

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

It’s sunny days ahead for SPF products. The category, which grew in the course of the pandemic despite housebound consumers, has develop into a drugs cabinet mainstay. Beauty shoppers see it now as a each day essential, not a seasonal one. To find the highest products within the category, WWD Beauty Inc polled shy of 400 executives, founders, editors, financiers, retailers, chemists and influencers on their favorite skincare products across each key category. Promised secrecy (the total list of those willing to be identified as electors appears on this story, though the content of their ballots stays confidential), the sunscreen results are bifurcated between skincare multitaskers and a slew of sheer, light, barely-there formulas. Amongst them, the primary chemical SPF to eschew...

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