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Through its new partnerships with Walmart and Facebook, Shopify is expanding its reach and moving in to compete with Amazon's Marketplace, the online giant's own third-party e-commerce platform.

Shopify Moves in On Amazon With New Walmart, Facebook Deals

Through its new partnerships with Walmart and Facebook, Shopify is expanding its reach and moving in to compete with Amazon's Marketplace, the online giant's own third-party e-commerce platform.

The relationship between brands' growth in self-care and brands' growth in beauty is incredibly linear, suggesting growth in self-care equates to growth in beauty.

Sustainability, Sun Care and Self-care on the Rise Amid COVID-19

Social Standards analyzed social data points into benchmarked insights about every brand, product, feature and trend consumers talk about, and presented the data in a new report, “COVID-19 Insights: Beauty - May 2020.”

Many consumers are turning their attention and support toward Black-owned businesses.

10 Trending Black-owned Beauty Brands

Spate analyzed more than 300 beauty brands’ U.S. Google Search data and found 10 brands that showed “strong growth.”

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Violet Grey Explores Potential Sale

The business is expected to do around $15 million in sales for 2020.

Seventy-five percent of respondents agreed that buying beauty products involves a personal, one-to-one relationship.

How Consumers Really Feel About Post-pandemic Beauty Retail

“For any new product, I will still buy in-store because I find makeup color matching difficult online and always use the beauty staff in-store for advice and trial.”

Wang Mingqiang, general manager of AliExpress, says “shoppertainment” is reshaping the way people shop online.

Alibaba's Online Market to Sponsor 100K Influencers Worldwide

Wang Mingqiang, general manager of AliExpress, says “shoppertainment” is reshaping the way people shop online.

Mass vs. Indie Beauty: Visual Trends on Instagram

Is there a difference between what mass beauty brands are sharing compared to smaller indie brands? Do the ethics of a brand’s audience play a role in how they consume content?

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ASOS Wants You to be Skin Proud

The ASOS-exclusive collection includes a jelly moisturizer, a multiuse skin balm and an exfoliating tonic.

Facebook Shops allow brands to sell products through Facebook and Instagram, while maximizing features of the platforms like livestreams and direct messaging.

Facebook Shops Offers Social Media E-commerce Opportunity

Facebook Shops allows brands to sell products through Facebook and Instagram, while maximizing features of the platforms like livestreams and direct messaging.

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The 2020 Beauty Influencer Rich List

Beauty influencers aren’t just maintaining their followers, views and likes, the social media darlings are also raking in the cash.

The Sephora Tmall Global Flagship Store offers hair care, skin care, fragrance and makeup, with brands like Fenty Beauty, Dermalogica and Bon Parfumeur on its platform.

Sephora x Tmall Global Launch Cross-border E-commerce Flagship

The Sephora Tmall Global Flagship Store offers hair care, skin care, fragrance and makeup, with brands like Fenty Beauty, Dermalogica and Bon Parfumeur on its platform.

Klarna and similar services are booming as e-commerce beauty sales skyrocket.

Buy Now, Pay Later Beauty Booms

An e-commerce boom and economic crisis have created the perfect storm for accelerated adoption of Afterpay, Klarna and similar services.

The coronavirus pandemic accentuated the declines in consumer conversation around luxury and prestige beauty.

Beauty Conversations Decline 16% on Instagram

Masks, specifically sheet masks and clay masks, are the only beauty products to witness a rise in conversation volume.

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Is This the Future of Beauty Retail Sampling?

The technology is reportedly accurate enough to know how a certain foundation color will change once absorbed into the skin—and even oxidizes.

Violet Grey has some new financial fuel to scale up.

Violet Grey Secures $1.35 Million Credit Facility

Neil Kee, CFO and COO at Violet Grey, said, “We’re thrilled to team up with two partners who share and support our vision to take Violet Grey to the next level."

Online skin care search volumes have grown by 51% over the past three years.

Online Skin Care Shoppers Opt for Brand-centric Keywords

While brands like Drunk Elephant and Glossier earned the top spots for search growth over the past three years, brands belonging to conglomerates like Estée Lauder and L’Oréal are still leading the way in terms of search volume.

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The Top 3 Aesthetic Skin Care Trends on Instagram

Skin care brands were broken down by ethos: clean, vegan and cruelty-free. Each subset of brands revealed its own visual approach, but they all reinforce the notion of skin care as a sensory experience.

Building a Cult Brand in a Pandemic-stricken Influencer Economy

Key metrics that can help brands build meaningful relationships during a global crisis.