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Leveraging Your Formulation With An AI-Powered Assistant

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How Brands Can Navigate Beauty AI with a Human Touch

The AI Beauty landscape is ripe with potential, and brands are using personalization to give it a human touch.

Cosmetic Droppers: inside Lumson's engineering approach

Cosmetic Droppers: inside Lumson's engineering approach

Behind every cosmetic dropper lies a complex engineering process. Discover Lumson's approach to designing dispensing systems that combine precision, aesthetics, manufacturing expertise and consistent, reliable performance.

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"Voices Behind the Data:" Global Cosmetic Industry x READY to BEAUTY Launch Mini-Series on Black Professionals in Beauty

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Stay Ahead of the Curve: Esko is Answering Questions on Scaling Businesses and Navigating Regulatory Challenges

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Submit Your AI Questions For Our Experts: Cosmetic R&D Webinar Featuring Ethical AI & Smart Data

Cosmetic Droppers: inside Lumson's engineering approach

Cosmetic Droppers: inside Lumson's engineering approach

Lighting, cropping and other techniques can, intentionally or not, manipulate the appearance of efficacy in clinical testing.

The Misleading Beauty Befores and Afters That Even the Pros Miss

There are many variables that can and should be controlled, and good studios will always provide both a full-face image and close crops.

Pictured here is a clinical test subject before/after captured by Visia skin analysis. This image was created during a clinical test of RoC Skincare RoC 35 protocol users. All tests were conducted at clinics in France, with participants aged 45-plus, who reported their skin looked an average of 9.6 years younger after 90 days.

Beauty Before-and-Afters: How Better Imagery, AI, Social Media and Testing Are Changing the Game

“A high-quality before and after image offers a huge range of benefits. It pushes transparency. You’re no longer stating a claim, you’re demonstrating it."

Kromboost™: Provital's Upcycled Protein Bioactive for Stronger, True Color

Kromboost™: Provital's Upcycled Protein Bioactive for Stronger, True Color

Upcycled barley protein bioactive that strengthens hair, deepens hydration and protects dyed color from heat damage. Up to 152% less breakage, 166% better color retention in rinse-off vs placebo. Halal, Cosmos approved, vegan. 2% dose.

From global leaders like L’Oreal, Estée Lauder and Supergoop! to innovative disruptors like Olaplex, KORA Organics, and Danessa Myricks Beauty, the best in the industry will be there.

Guestlist Sneak Peek: Who's Coming to Beauty Accelerate? 👀

From global leaders like L’Oreal, Estée Lauder and Supergoop! to innovative disruptors like Olaplex, KORA Organics, and Danessa Myricks Beauty, the best in the industry will be there.

Ba25 Lucree Editorial

Lorne Lucree Joins Beauty Accelerate 2025 Lineup to Take on Beauty's Innovation Slump

Lorne Lucree, founder of Quiet Coyote, is bringing his experience in combining strong brand marketing acumen, creativity, constant curiosity to the BA2025 conference with his session: Innovation that Screams.

Helen of Troy to Acquire Olive & June, Extending its Reach Beyond Hair Care

Helen of Troy has acquired Olive & June, a popular nail care brand, for $240 million. The acquisition is expected to boost Helen of Troy's financial performance and strengthen its position in the beauty and personal care market beyond hair care.

Analysts have noted that 2024 is set to be the sixth worst year for the luxury sector in the past two decades.

Authenticity & UGC Keep Luxury Beauty Brands Relevant Amid Uncertainty

Analysts have noted that 2024 is set to be the sixth worst year for the luxury sector in the past two decades, highlighting the challenges faced across the industry.

Ulta Beauty Teams Up with Rokt to Enhance the Shopping Experience for the 2024 Holiday Season.

Ulta Beauty x Rokt Partner on Non-endemic Advertising

Ulta Beauty teams up with Rokt, a leader in global ecommerce technology to implement new advertising strategies amid the 2024 holiday season.

From Gen Alpha to longevity and (p)rejuvenation to elevated efficacy and obsession-worthy packaging, Beauty Accelerate 2025 will deliver insights from beauty's leading R&D, marketing and innovation voices.

Beauty Accelerate 2025: Future-proofing Beauty [Join the Waitlist!]

Returning to the East Coast, 2025's edition will highlight the technologies, trends and strategies propelling the most innovative brands.

Three MaquillAR projects: 1. AR effect for Valde Beauty; 2. AR effect for Val Garland, model: Fallon Havanna; 3. AR effect for Submission Beauty, model and founder: Zenia Jaeger.

Beauty’s Augmented Reality Future

The AR renaissance is delivering real brand value and increasingly complex and imaginative projects.

Consumers are testing the limits of beauty innovation like never before, demanding elevated value, efficacy, sustainability and experiences, from product to branding and packaging to marketing and social engagement.

Global Cosmetic Industry Reveals 2025 Beauty Themes

From skin and hair health to emerging technologies and manufacturing trends to the latest packaging and ingredient innovations, 2025's information agenda will equip brands to compete in a dynamic, competitive marketplace.

Taken together, brands of every size will leave this year's event with the knowledge and insights needed to innovate nimbly and mindfully and to elevate their brands to the next level.

Let's Connect the Dots Between Beauty Marketing and R&D: Beauty Accelerate Los Angeles 2024

Join Beauty Accelerate in Los Angeles to set the 2024-2025 innovation agenda!