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25 May

The Hoodwitch Teams With Smashbox on Crystal Collection

A recent collection from Smashbox carries witchy undertones. The cosmetics company’s latest collaborator is Bri Luna, founding father of popular modern mystics site The Hoodwitch. Today, Smashbox and Luna unveiled The Crystalized Collection, a seven-piece line of crystal-infused makeup products, inspired by Luna’s work with rituals, that adds to beauty’s increasing fixation with crystals. “We’re having this resurgence in spirituality with crystals and alternative types of healing, but when you concentrate on it, these are things which have at all times been relevant in the wonder industry,” Luna said. “You’re going back to the true origins of cosmetics being formed from minerals and crystals and using them as a form of decoration. I don’t find it to be trendy or recent.” The Crystalized...
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16 Dec

Smashbox Exits U.K. and Ireland – WWD

Smashbox, the Los Angeles-born cosmetics brand best known for its primers, is pulling out of the U.K. and Ireland, a key beauty market. “An accumulation of challenges has sadly been greater than our business can withstand and we’ve needed to make the heart-breaking decision to now not accept orders within the U.K. and Ireland starting September 29, 2022. We’ve loved being a component of your creativity and expression and we’re endlessly grateful,” it posted on Twitter Wednesday. A spokesperson for owner The Estée Lauder Cos. added that over recent years, Smashbox’s UK sales have been “impacted by changes within the brand’s retail space and placement, combined with competitive challenges,” but stressed that it would proceed to sell in various other markets world...
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6 Jul

Estée Lauder Layoffs at Smashbox, Too Faced, Glamglow –

Trouble in California? While the Estée Lauder Cos. has been grappling with much talked-about issues in China as its travel retail market did not bounce back after the coronavirus pandemic, it’s also been quietly coping with other struggles out West. Its California brands — Smashbox, Too Faced and Glamglow — have all initiated layoffs previously 12 months as those businesses face challenges, while international operations have also been scaled back for some. As a part of that, there shall be 22 employees laid off at Too Faced’s office in Irvine, in accordance with filings by the California Labor Department first reported by Retail Dive. The makeup brand founded by Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson within the ’90s was acquired by Lauder in 2016...
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16 Jan

Smashbox Cosmetics Releases The Perfect Red Lipstick For Black

Courtesy of Brand National Lipstick Day is officially at some point away (July twenty ninth) and Smashbox Cosmetics just announced the discharge of an addition to their “Be Legendary” Lipstick line. There are lots of elements that make finding the proper lipstick not really easy and it will probably be even tougher to seek out the proper red lipstick, but thankfully Smashbox has done the work to fastidiously develop the formula and shade to envision all of your boxes.  Smashbox Cosmetics introduced the most recent addition to the “Be Legendary” Lipstick line as “Be Seen” – a deep red shade that was intentionally created for melanin-rich skin. Although Smashbox has previously received praise for the creamy, peptide-infused formula utilized in the “Be...
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