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24 Apr

How Skin Care Is Impacting Jobs

There’s a skincare specialist boom. In beauty, the services sector is flourishing with the likes of fast facial bars Glowbar, Silver Mirror and Heyday expanding their footprint and corporations like laser facial specialists Skin Laundry doubling its clinic count. At the identical time, med spas offering injectables also proceed to achieve traction as these services develop into less taboo and more commonplace. The trend is translating into more jobs within the skin services sector, in line with official data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The federal government department expects skincare specialists to grow 9 percent from 2022 to 2032, much faster than the typical for all occupations. About 12,400 openings for skincare specialists are projected every year, on average.  While much of that...
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29 Mar

Gen Alpha Is Driving 49 Percent of Mass Skin

This text was updated on March 22 at 10:55 a.m. EST. Gen Alpha is fueling sizable growth in skincare. Despite only 26 percent of households counting a member of the cohort, tweens are driving 49 percent of mass skincare’s growth, in line with data from NIQ. “We’ve traced [momentum] back to this general phenomenon of youngsters moving into the skincare category more quickly,” said Anna Mayo, vice chairman of NIQ’s beauty vertical, adding that cleansers, serums and masks are among the many products young consumers are mainly reaching for. While average prices are up 8 percent in facial skincare in mass, inflation isn’t the one factor keeping sales afloat. “Beauty consumers are reallocating more of their dollars towards beauty at the...
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28 Mar

I keep having weird anxiety dreams about my skin

Thick scaly scabs, oozing pus, and extreme ageing – author Viola Levy investigates what the subconscious is attempting to tell us The opposite night I dreamt my skin was encrusted in thick scaly scabs. Not the conventional kind, more just like the ‘greyscale’ that plagued Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones. Within the dream, I picked away at them and dark pigmentation marks appeared underneath, everlasting. “No amount of SkinCeuticals Retinol 1.0% was going to shift that lot,” my dream-self thought (which made me realise I’ve been writing about beauty for far too long). In real life, I’ve recently broken out in mild rosacea since hitting my 30s and while I’ve been looking into...
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27 Mar

Meaningful Partners Invests $20M Into Allies of Skin

PARIS — Allies of Skin, the Singapore-based skincare brand, has raised $20 million from Meaningful Partners. The funds shall be used to speed up Allies of Skin’s U.S. push, online and offline, including more marketing, research and development, and team-building there. Nicolas Travis launched the science-led brand in 2016 with three products. The 1A All-Day Mask was the hero of the trio, which stemmed from Travis’ belief in double masking and combination treatments. The road has grown since and today features a full skincare range, with formulas containing clinically proven actives — comparable to retinoids, vitamin C and antioxidants — in high concentrations and biocompatible formulas to repair regenerate and train skin to perform at its best in minimum steps, in keeping with Allies...
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