Global Cosmetic Industry September 2024 Issue | Global Cosmetic Industry

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While influencers drive consumer excitement and feed AI recommendations, online sources that lead include Reddit, Who What Wear, Wikipedia, Sephora and Allure.

The Top Sites ChatGPT is Using for Beauty Recommendations

Reddit dominates as editorial and retail sites shape AI visibility. But that's not the whole story.

MOON: mascara in glass by Lumson and Ponzini

MOON: mascara in glass by Lumson and Ponzini

MOON is the first glass mascara created by Lumson in collaboration with Ponzini. This Made in Italy design elevates the formula, transforming the mascara into a luxury object. The bottle comes with three applicators for a tailored, premium performance

The positioning is familiar e.l.f. logic—high perceived value, aggressively accessible pricing, and a strong cultural halo built from its cosmetics and skin care businesses.

e.l.f. Dives Into Hair with Mass Entry, Prestige Play and a $6–$10 Disruption Bet in a Split Hair Market

Early hair test-and-learn drops reportedly saw 96% positive sentiment and high new-to-brand conversion

Luxury beauty brands desperately need new points of distribution, as traditional department stores increasingly fail to deliver true luxury experiences. The solution lies in infiltrating high-end, membership-based wellness spaces.

The New Alchemy: Why Longevity is Beauty’s Next Billion-Dollar Battleground

Brands must transition from being simple product providers to becoming indispensable, lifelong partners in a consumer’s personal growth and vitality.

TikTok has cemented its role as a discovery channel, and its influence on Amazon search rankings means that virality on one platform now directly monetizes on another.

Beauty’s Digital Reordering: TikTok Shop Surges as Amazon Holds, But No Longer Dominates Growth

With the launch of Beauty Crush Skincare, Karen Behnke appears to be betting that beauty consumers want something more than clean—they want clinically driven regenerative biotechnology.

From 'Juice In, Junk Out' to Exosomes: Karen Behnke's Beauty Crush Signals Clean Beauty's Next Chapter

If Juice Beauty helped establish clean beauty's first era, Beauty Crush offers a glimpse of what the category's next chapter may look like.

The retailer also demonstrated improving profitability, with gross margin expanding to 40.1% from 39.1% a year ago, reflecting stronger merchandise margins and lower inventory shrink.

9 Drivers of Ulta’s Q1 Growth (and a Times Square Flagship Teaser)

Growth was broad-based across channels and categories, with gains driven by both higher spending per visit and increased shopper traffic.

The Pasadena store includes dedicated skin care testing zones, water-basin cleansing stations, skin scanning technology, scalp analysis services, and “The Beauty Lab,' where shoppers can receive personalized skin care lessons based on diagnostic insights.

Olive Young Plants Its Flag in the US as K-Beauty’s Retail Expansion Accelerates

The opening comes amid a wave of aggressive K-beauty retail expansion across the U.S. market in 2026.

ELC will refocus on its ongoing initiatives following the end of talks with Puig.

What Happened with Estée Lauder-Puig?

Despite the setback, Estée Lauder remains open to future acquisitions that satisfy its financial requirements.

L'Oréal Luxe is extending fragrance beyond traditional product formats through a new partnership with DataLand, the AI-driven cultural institution co-founded by Refik Anadol (pictured) and Efsun Erkılıç.

L’Oréal Luxe Brings Responsive Scent Technology to AI Art Institution DataLand

The scents were created in collaboration with Refik Anadol Studio using the studio’s proprietary Large Nature Model, an AI system trained on nature-derived datasets.

The views generated on TikTok are translating into meaningful revenue lifts across DTC sites, Amazon, and brick-and-mortar retail through powerful halo effects.

The 15 Most-Viewed Beauty Brands on TikTok Shop

Why it matters: a correlation analysis using Charm’s TikTok Shop data revealed a clear alignment between TikTok engagement and performance across other retail channels.