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K-beauty brands like Medicube are dominating many top skin care trends in 2025.

How K-Beauty Trends Have Taken Over Skin Care: from Acne Care to PDRN

This report explores how each brand, product and trend addresses certain skin concerns.

Lip products and prestige hair care were key sales drivers in the first half of 2025.

1H 2025 Beauty Sales Point to Boom Times for Value and Efficacy

While prestige led hair care and makeup, mass growth dominated fragrance and skin care.

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From Warehouse to Makeup Bag: How Fulfillment Builds Customer Loyalty

A new industry audit by 3PL provider Shipfusion Inc. reveals significant fulfillment challenges facing direct-to-consumer (DTC) beauty brands.

Platforms like Amazon provide unmatched reach and convenience for early momentum.

From TikTok to Checkout, Viral Beauty Brands Are Transforming the Market

From 2023 to 2025, Amazon’s share of spend among viral beauty shoppers is projected to grow from under 70% to over 75%, while traditional retailers like Ulta and Sephora experience a gradual decline.

SPF-infused makeup, multifunctional K-beauty and more are lighting up consumers' feeds this summer.

SummerTok's Hottest Beauty Trends Include SPF Glow-Ups, TikTok-Famous Eyebrows and Skin-Loving Makeup Magic

Brands that tap into seasonal and longer-term consumer engagement can gain ground on even the most entrenched establishments.

While stress starts in the mind, it doesn’t stay there. Chronic stress can trigger an overproduction of cortisol—the body’s stress hormone—which compromises the skin barrier, increases inflammation and leads to visible concerns like acne, dullness and premature aging.

Built for Burnout: How Potion Tackles Stress-Smart Skin Care

In an age of overstimulation and chronic stress, people need skin care that keeps up with real life. The founder of Potion Skincare explains how she did just that.

Which brands are likely to become M&A targets in 2025? A new report has some answers.

10 Realities of Beauty M&A in 2025: Sector Overlap, Portfolio Growth, Results-driven and More

Major players like L’Oreal and Unilever are expanding their portfolios through acquisitions of innovative beauty and personal care brands.

Celebrity's recent flaunting of their cosmetic treatments is potentially credited to the introduction of GLP-1 medications. Transformations suddenly became accessible, empowering and personalized. It introduced control over the way many wish to present themselves.

Perfect Is Out, Personal Is In: Celebrity Transparency Shaping Aesthetics—But Body Image Pressures Still Linger

Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Megan Fox, and other celebrities are now openly discussing their cosmetic treatments, breaking the long-held taboo around transparency in beauty. Their influence has helped normalize aesthetic procedures, shaping consumer decisions.

'Latinas in Beauty is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing Latina representation and equity across the beauty industry—from founders to C-suite professionals,' says Perez.

Latinas in Beauty: Advancing Equity and Representation in the Beauty Industry

"Despite spending over $12 billion in 2024 and outspending peers by 30% on beauty products, Latinas represent less than 1% of C-suite leadership in beauty and founders receive less than 0.04% in funding," Perez explains.

Consumers remain aligned with clean beauty principles of transparency and safety. But they want stronger proof of efficacy and expert-backed recommendations.

Can Clean Brands Survive the Rise of Clinical Beauty?

While clinical brands focus on concrete claims, benefits and evidence, clean beauty has always struggled from a lack of universal definitions, per a new Circana analysis.

Influencer and doctor beauty brands are among the top prospects for investments in 2025.

The Next 12-18 Months in Beauty and Personal Care Transactions: a Critical Window for Action

With portfolio realignments accelerating and valuations resetting, the next 12 to 18 months present a critical window for action, per Kearney.

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.

The desire for skin care-makeup hybrids has been gaining steam in recent years, with SPF claims no exception

Beautifying Sun Protection in 2025: Top Innovation Targets

From emerging ingredient technologies and testing methods to unique formats, SPF-powered beauty is leveling up.

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."

'Gen-Z are a lot more spontaneous than older generations, favoring instant gratification and taking part in trends as opposed to being loyal to brands they have previously used.'

The European Gen Z Beauty Consumer: 4 Questions with Euromonitor's Emilie Hood

Gen Z are socially conscious consumers who value ethical and sustainable practices.

Several factors are fueling this trend towards minimalism in beauty. At the forefront is the growing fatigue with cluttered bathroom cabinets, paired with an increased awareness of sustainability and ethical consumption.

Think Slow, Move Fast: Beauty Needs Less Clutter, More Impact

How is the trend toward "fewer, better products" shaping consumer behavior in the beauty industry?

NielsenIQ data shows that Gen Z is prone to shopping at Sephora, Ulta, Target and TikTok, but not at department stores, while millennials tend toward Sephora, Target and Amazon.

TikTok & Amazon Are Rapidly Reshaping Beauty Retail. Brands Need to Be Ready.

Within specialty stores, Ulta has been hit by growth at Sephora, including its Kohl’s shop-in-shops, per NielsenIQ data.

Three of the top 10 most cited confidence boosters are hair related, including good hair days and new hairstyles, as well as successful covering of gray hairs.

Hair Care 2025: Scalp Health & Category Blur

Pro and pro-inspired hair care is increasingly going mainstream. Salon-grade brands now make up about 10% of Target's hair assortment, while Sephora offers more than 1,000 products from professional and salon brands.

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