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The Hero Playbook: How Beauty Leaders Balance Iconic Staples with High-Impact Innovation

Fourteen conversations with beauty leaders reveal how to protect and renovate core bestsellers, engineer clinical efficacy, build genuine cultural equity, and turn single-product hits into enduring multi-category franchises.

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Estée Lauder’s Fiscal 2026 Results: Fragrance Leads a Broader Beauty Recovery

"Our One ELC operating model is increasingly enabling the entire organization to move at speed and with discipline.”

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Color Cosmetics at a Crossroads: the Categories and Strategies Set to Restart Growth

Industry innovators are exploring new ways to bring energy back to the makeup aisle.

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The Innovations Tackling the SPF Confidence Gap

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The Performance Pivot: Stains, Serums and the Science of Life-Proof Beauty

The makeup sector's 2026 outlook centers on advanced lip technologies, mature skin solutions, high-performance tubing mascaras and all-things hybrid.

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Grant Industries Brings Real-Time Formulation to the West Coast

"Real-time co-creation environments allow for faster decision making, stronger partnerships, and more differentiated products."

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Accessible Wellness and Life-Proof Performance Take Center Stage in Latest Beauty Retail Expansions

What the latest retail moves reveal about retailers' (and consumers') priorities.

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Estée Lauder’s Turnaround Takes Hold: Margin Repair, Category Momentum and a Clearer Path Back to Growth

Net sales rose 6% to $4.2B (organic +4%), with strength across prestige skin care, fragrance and hair care offsetting near-term makeup disruption.

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

The 2026 C&T Allē Awards are just around the corner, celebrating the trailblazers of beauty innovation on May 18, 2026, in NYC. This year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision. Meet this year's contenders.

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The Beauty Contract: What's Fueling the Top 10 Gen Z Brands and Products?

Insight platform [cafeteria] listened to 2,100+ of its teen and Gen Z users to curate 335 hours of insights about 270+ beauty brands and behaviors to find what's driving these next-gen shoppers.

[Interview] Ajay Salpekar, TikTok Shop's Head of Beauty, On Online Shopping, K-Beauty Trends and Small Businesses

TikTok Shop is transforming the beauty landscape through personalized exploration and discovery. Global Cosmetic Industry spoke with Ajay Salpekar, TikTok Shop's head of beauty, for more insights.

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Beyond Hybrids: the New Era of Skin-Care-First Makeup

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Glow, Nourish and Shine: MPlus Cosmetics Launches Resonance Vegan Skin Care-Makeup Hybrids

"With every texture designed to melt, transform, and illuminate, we invite everyone to discover their inner frequency and express their unique identity."

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Stick to It: Makeup’s Growth Agenda for 2025-2026

Convenience and skin-loving ingredients define many of makeup's top-performing categories.

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.

Is Rhode Headed for a $1B Sale?

Per Reuters, "Bieber is exploring a sale of her makeup brand Rhode that could be worth more than $1 billion."

Bliss is tackling aging with a playful twist. Known for its self-care products, Bliss is reconnecting with its original audience—elder millennials and Gen X—with a new campaign featuring comedian Iliza Shlesinger.

How Bliss and Laura Geller Beauty Are Redefining Beauty Standards for Women Over 40

These iconic brands are not only reshaping the narrative around aging, but also making beauty more inclusive and empowering for women 40 and beyond.

Peptides are powering everything from lip-shaping color cosmetics to aesthetic neurotoxin treatment alternatives. Suppliers are also working to enhance performance and penetration of these key materials.

Peptide Beauty is Leveling Up in 2025

Peptides are everywhere; why is that?