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With Sincerely Yours and Pour Tous, the Gen Alpha Beauty Blitz Reaches Sephora and Amazon

Two recent brand launches turn up the heat on the competition in responsible skin care.

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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.

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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.

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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.

By optimizing packaging decisions and manufacturing, The Rootist managed to drastically grow its serum's size without passing costs to shoppers.

The Rootist is Relaunching a Serum at Sephora with 80% More Product—and No Price Increase. Here’s How.

The Rootist prioritized delivering more value to its loyal users by increasing the product size without passing on additional costs.

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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Navigating Amazon’s New Compliance Guidelines for Skin-Lightening and Ophthalmic Products

Amazon requires additional testing to sell ophthalmic and skin-lightening products on its platform. Partner with Certified Laboratories, an Amazon-approved Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) organization, for consistent, compliant testing!

The Social Media Secrets of Gen Z’s Favorite Hair Care Brands

Hair care brands that cater to Gen Z have launched into the market with great success by turning their social media strategy into both an art and a science.

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Top 15 Beauty Predictions for 2025: Insider Insights

We prompted a variety of leaders within the beauty industry to share their thoughts on the oncoming trend forecast for 2025.

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These Are the Top 15 TikTok Shops in Beauty

Revenue trends, top-selling products and more are revealed in Charm.IO's latest report.

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.

'For a subjective claim such as 'my skin felt smoother and more moisturized,' a well-conducted consumer survey can suffice as substantiation,' says Jennifer Santos of NAD.

What Beauty Brands & Influencers Need to Know about Truth in Marketing

The rise of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube bred a new form of advertising—dominated by influencers—that is more visual, engaging, seemingly organic and influential in a consumer’s beauty decisions. Here's what that means for brands.

Everyone Wants to Be Omnichannel: Here’s How to Succeed

Beauty brands need to ask themselves key questions and ensure they’re ready to go on-shelf amid shifting market realities.

According to NielsenIQ data, the categories with the largest U.S. in-store growth were candles/fragrance oils, fragrances and deodorant, while online growth leaders were slightly reshuffled, led by deodorant, candles/fragrance and hair care.

Beauty Retail 2024 & Beyond: Shoppers, Inflation & Promotions

According to Circana’s Larissa Jensen, promotion in mass and prestige beauty is relatively low compared to accessories, footwear and apparel.

As digital natives unaware of a life without swiping and interfaces, Generation Alpha views virtual and real experiences as interchangeable—putting pressure on marketers to ensure that virtual experiences are as cutting-edge yet genuine as possible.

Now is the Time to Market Beauty to Generation Alpha

This young, tech-savvy demographic wields brand influence and purchasing power that beauty brands need to tap into sooner rather than later.

Thanks to this combination of effortless content discovery and the channel’s easily digestible, short-form video format, TikTok has become an incredibly useful tool for brands seeking to capture new market share, and the cosmetic industry, specifically, has a lot to capitalize on here.

3 Ways Beauty Brands Can Shine on Tik Tok

With its combination of effortless content discovery and easily digestible, short-form video format, Tik Tok has become an incredibly useful tool for brands seeking to capture new market share.