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Consumers are increasingly gravitating toward niche scent profiles, limited launches and storytelling-led olfactive identities—moving away from mass-recognizable designer fragrances.

Indies Set the Pace, Conglomerates Hold the Shelf—2026 Lessons for Beauty

Conglomerates defend share, while indies drive upside.

From groundbreaking cosmetic ingredients to cutting-edge beauty devices, this year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision in cosmetics R&D.

Meet the 2026 C&T Allē Awards Finalists – Trailblazers in Beauty Innovation

Successful brands demonstrated durability beyond initial launch windows through repeat purchase and cross-category adjacency.

The New Rules of Winning at Sephora—Category by Category

The demand is clear. Hybrid makeup that puts skin first is key, allowing users a clearer base that enhances color cosmetics.

Makeup + More: Hybrids that Have it All

Makeup hybrids are here to stay. Meet the brands making waves in makeup that does more with less.

As we head out of the holidays and step into 2026, the time has come to make our New Year's beauty resolutions, big and small.

Beauty Resolutions: What to Manifest in 2026

Global Cosmetic Industry's first edition of the year is covering everything from packaging, skin care, sun care and makeup, reporting the latest trends in hybrid-everything and hyper-personalization across categories.

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Target Unveils Its Largest-Ever Spring Beauty Reset, Doubling Down on Prestige-at-Mass, K-Beauty and Skin Health

Target is reinforcing its role as a volume-driven beauty incubator—scaling prestige cues, dermatologist credibility and global trends at mass prices, while investing heavily in physical retail as a discovery engine.

The Future of Beauty Is Now: Download Accupac’s 2026 Trend Report

The Future of Beauty Is Now: Download Accupac’s 2026 Trend Report

Accupac’s 2026 Trend Report highlights a new era of beauty—where proof is experienced, sustainability drives real impact, bioinnovation supports long-term vitality, and adaptive beauty responds to changing skin, life stages, and environments.

The collection reimagines three e.l.f. hero products—Power Grip Primer, Halo Glow and Camo—through H&M’s fashion-forward lens, turning high-equity makeup IP into emotionally driven, wearable fragrance.

H&M x e.l.f. Enter Fragrance at Peak Momentum—Turning Hero Makeup into Scented IP

For the first nine months of 2025, fragrance emerged as one of the strongest categories across the mass and prestige channels.

'Fragrance has been benefiting from deep changes in consumer trends, including frequency of use, appetite for more premium, luxury scents and new habits to “collect” various scents and brands,' says Alexandre Terseleer, a partner in the private equity practice at global strategy and management consulting firm, Kearney. 'However, at this stage the offering has become so vast that most consumers start feeling overwhelmed–lending itself well for consolidation at the level of brands (and portfolios thereof).'

Megadeals, Fragrance Frenzies and the Gen Z Wallet: Your 2026 Beauty M&A Playbook

Alexandre Terseleer, a partner at Kearney, unpacks the latest beauty M&A trends.

“Dupes,” minis, and discovery sets are thriving alongside true luxury.

U.S. Beauty Market Outlook 2026: Value, Wellness, and Technology Power a Category That Keeps Growing

Consumers are still buying beauty—carefully, strategically and with a sharper eye on value.

Give Me Grip is a salmon PDRN–infused grip primer.

KimChiChic Beauty Releases Salmon PDRN–Infused Grip Primer

This formula fuses cutting-edge K-Beauty skin care with high-performance makeup wear, delivering both skin benefits and long-lasting hold.

The award-winning device is the first of its kind, offering an all-in-one solution that combines scar treatment with cosmetic coverage.

Kolmar Korea's AI Scar Beauty Device Wins CES 2026 'Best of Innovation' Award

The device was praised for its user-friendly design, allowing real-time monitoring and control through a smartphone, making advanced treatment accessible to consumers.

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Advance Your Expertise with UC’s Online Master’s in Cosmetic Science

From business practices to consumer exploration, AI is permanently embedded into Beauty's everyday language as sophistication levels grow and consumers come to expect greater levels of AI expertise and personalization from their favorite brands.

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.