Sephora North America has selected eight BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) brands for its 2025 Accelerate programme, which is designed to nurture and propel emerging beauty brands. The 2025 edition marks a decade of Sephora championing emerging talent and continues to be a vital launchpad for BIPOC-founded and -owned businesses,...
17 Dec 2024
Fashion retailer H&M is reimagining its H&M Beauty cosmetics range for autumn 2023 in partnership with renowned make-up artist Raoúl Alejandre. The relaunched own-branded H&M Beauty make-up line rolls out this month with a new range of mascaras, blush, and lipsticks, offering new high-quality vegan formulas that are “sleeker and better than ever...
24 Oct 2023
Beauty brand Look Fabulous Forever has acquired respected UK beauty manufacturer Creative Cosmetics to give the brand an “unprecedented opportunity to grow". In a statement, Look Fabulous Forever said that as most UK brands produce the majority of their colour cosmetics in Italy or China, and the acquisition of Ipswich-based Creative Cosmetics...
5 Jul 2023
Make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, the founder of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, has launched her first-ever mobile app, powered by AI deep learning to offer consumers personalised beauty solutions. The ‘Charlotte Tilbury: Easy Beauty For You’ app aims to democratise and simplify beauty for all, explains the brand in the press release, by harnessing...
14 Jun 2023
Make-up brand Revlon has confirmed a new board of directors featuring senior executives from Sephora, Walgreens, and Ebay as it emerges from bankruptcy. In a statement, Revlon said it will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in “the coming days” with a reorganised board of directors, which will be led by executive chair Elizabeth Smith, former...
2 May 2023
Luxury fragrance brand Kilian Paris has named Beyoncé’s make-up artist Sir John as its first make-up creative director. In a statement, Kilian Paris said that Sir John will work closely with founder Kilian Hennessy to help shape the brand’s “make-up vision, philosophy, artistry, and innovation” to take “make-up to the next level”. Hennessy said...
25 Apr 2023
Beauty brand E.l.f. Cosmetics tapped actress Jennifer Coolidge to star in its first-ever TV commercial, which debuted during the Super Bowl in the US. The TV advert, co-written by ‘The White Lotus’ creator Mike White, celebrated the beauty brand’s best-selling Power Grip Primer, which has become a viral hit on TikTok for its ability to grip...
13 Feb 2023
US-based minimalist beauty brand Merit, loved by celebrities including Bella Hadid and Cameron Diaz, is launching in the UK with a direct-to-consumer website. Merit was founded in 2021 by Katherine Power, an editor turned consumer-brand builder, chief executive, and investor focusing on creating products and businesses that connect to millennial...
7 Feb 2023
French luxury house Chanel is taking a new collaborative approach to its make-up creation with the launch of the ‘Cometes Collective’ featuring a group of emerging talents to shape “the future of beauty”. The first three global creative partners appointed to the ‘Cometes Collective’ are make-up artists Ammy Drammeh, Cécile Paravina and Valentina...
12 Oct 2022
British make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench is launching a pop-up experience in London to celebrate the launch of her eponymous beauty brand, Isamaya and its debut capsule collection. The pop-up, opening on July 1, will be located at 15 Bateman Street in Soho, London, and will feature the brand's high-anticipated debut ‘Industrial’ collection ahead...
22 Jun 2022
Revlon is to launch its first make-up collection with Megan Thee Stallion exclusively on StockX via DropX, the direct-to-consumer product release method powered by the global e-commerce marketplace for consumers of current culture. The collaboration marks the first-ever DropX release with a make-up brand, as well as Megan Thee Stallion’s debut...
28 Jul 2021
LVMH launched a very interesting series of short but very inspirational podcasts ‘Tips to the Top’. These are the testimonials of 12 very different and successful women from the LVMH group, their life stories with the focus on their career in the group. Karen Williams has been working as Global Academy and Education Director at MAKE UP FOR EVER...
27 Mar 2020
