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21 Oct

P&G Beauty’s Alex Keith Talks Corporate Purpose – WWD

A through-line of Alex Keith’s 34-year profession with P&G Beauty is the corporate’s involvement with Look Good Feel Higher. “For so long as I can remember, Look Good Feel Higher has been an element of this industry,” said Keith, who's now the chief executive officer of the division and was presented with the 2023 Corporate Champion Award on the BeautyCares DreamBall last week. “I joined P&G in 1989, one 12 months after Google was founded.” “The efforts Look Good Feel Higher have undertaken across these 30-plus years have made an actual difference in how they’ve supported literally hundreds of thousands of individuals facing cancer,” she continued. “Thirty years ago, P&G Beauty support helped fund Look Good Feel Higher’s first website. Truthfully, after...
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9 Oct

Exclusive: Bia Brings Beauty For Certain to Urban Outfitters

“I might see her rise up on a regular basis at five, prop up her little mirror on the kitchen table and beat her face,” Bia told WWD exclusively, explaining that her first-encounter with makeup was watching her grandmother paint her face every morning.  The Latin Grammy-award winning rapper just isn't only taking control of the music charts together with her singles “Whole Lotta Money” and “Thousands and thousands,” but the sweetness industry too, bringing her brand Beauty For Certain to Urban Outfitters online. Bia and her Beauty For Certain lip kits, available at urban outfitters.com on Oct. 9. Shaun Andru “My grandmother is super lady-like, she is just like the epitome of a ‘real woman to me.’ I’ve had that instilled in me,...
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7 Oct

Ulta Beauty’s Michelle Crossan-Matos Talks Wellness, Joy – WWD

Ulta Beauty’s wellness assortment isn’t just doing well — it’s convalescing. “We make wellness accessible and we democratize it. We’re in all 50 states across the country, we serve each beauty enthusiast on the market,” said Michelle Crossan-Matos, the retailer’s chief marketing officer, in conversation with Jenny B. Fantastic, executive editor, beauty, WWD and Beauty Inc. “Our mission is to take the guesswork out of wellness and to assist people understand their very own wellness journey.” Crossan-Matos outlined the retailer’s game plan for tackling wellness needs, which starts with the buyer. “The business is booming, the expansion has been incredible — hence why we keep expanding,” she said. “We take cues from the communities we serve. We see how they need this to be far...
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21 Sep

Hailey Bieber Talks Rhode’s Latest Category and European Expansion

LONDON — It’s been a busy nine months for Hailey Bieber’s beauty brand Rhode, which she went direct with in June 2022. This yr, she launched within the U.K. with an easy sell out collection of the serum, a moisturizer and a lip treatment all under 30 kilos; she introduced a facial essence to mark the anniversary of her brand, and brought out a limited-edition of the lip peptide treatment inspired by Krispy Kreme’s strawberry glazed donut. The 26-year-old is now able to enterprise right into a recent category — color — with 4 tinted versions of the peptide treatment to coincide with Rhode’s European expansion. “I really like correlating all the things to food and various things,” Bieber said in an interview...
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