Retail
Sephora and Urban Decay catch controversy due to the AfterDark palette’s “Druggie” shade
HeatSt.com
A look at The Body Shop’s new green innovation lab
GreenBiz.com
Real Techniques by Sam and Nic launch new brushes based on consumer feedback
PRNewswire.com
A preview of Too Faced’s Melted Matte Lipsticks and Unicorn makeup
TeenVogue.com
Skincare tool from Dermalogica and BreezoMeter shares local air pollution levels in real-time
Forbes.com
Jaclyn Hill shares sneak preview of her new Morphe collaboration
Glamour.com
Rocky Mountain Soap Company has Has $11 Million in annual sales while putting the environment first
Forbes.com
Makeup artists Diane Kendal, James Kaliardos, and Kabuki collaborate with MAC Cosmetics
Refinery29.com
The coolest beauty products and tools to come out of Los Angeles this year
Refinery29.com
ZO Skin Health launches Rozatrol, a one-step rosacea product
WWD.com
Businesses like salons and barbers can now apply for liquor licenses in British Columbia
TheGlobeandMail.com
Storybook Cosmetics to launch official Hunger Games collaboration this Summer
Allure.com
A review of Stila’s Glitterati Lip Top Coats
Refinery29.com
LUSH launches new Valentine’s Day campaign showing more than a white male and white female couple
Bustle.com
L’Oreal and Founders Factory unveil their chosen five beauty startups
Forbes.com
A review of Drunk Elephant’s skincare range
NYMag.com
Birchbox to open second store in Paris
Yahoo.com
Smashbox to open a store in Birmingham, England
BirminghamMail.co.uk
A review of Storybook Cosmetics’ Harry Potter brushes
Popsugar.com
Scentinvent launches Linger, a fragrance primer
PRNewswire.com
These three women from Facebook and Bloomberg left to start Oars + Alps, a male skincare line
CNBC.com
Dove launches DermaCare Scalp range for dandruff prevention
PRNewswire.com
Bluemercury store to open in Tulsa
TulsaWorld.com
Repechage appeals for “help” in “dupe” product retailed by Glow Recipe. Does not file lawsuit
Facebook.com, WWD.com
Skin Laundry launches at Sephora
PRNewswire.com
Dr. David Colbert to launch second skincare brand NYDG
WWD.com
A look inside the Glamour Beauty Festival 2017 goodie bag
GlamourMagazine.co.uk
Chicago man named Wahl ‘Man of the Year’
PRNewswire.com
Bite Beauty opens custom lipstick Lip Labs in California
Persian.moda
A review of Indie Lee’s Blemish Lotion
TeenVogue.com
Ulta Beauty to open store in Bellevue, Tennessee
Tennessean.com
Celebrities and Interviews
Melania Trump’s makeup look for the inauguration
USMagazine.com
Angelina Jolie becomes new face of Guerlain fragrance
HarpersBazaar.com
An interview with Holly Siegel Sephora’s editorial director and the beauty products she uses
WellandGood.com
Hailey Baldwin uses Dr. Sturm MC1 Blood Moisturizer
TeenVogue.com
Iris Law by Jude Law signed as new face of Burberry Beauty
VanityFair.com
An interview with Alicia Keys on makeup, motherhood, and her music
Allure.com
“Why Manny Gutierrez & James Charles’ Generation Beauty appearance is as important as it is awesome”
Bustle.com
Hari Nef debuts as L’Oreal Paris’ first transgender model
Allure.com
Kylie Jenner to open pop-up shop in New York City
Bustle.com
An interview with Bobbi Brown, post-Estee Lauder. She plans to renovate her hotel and may launch a future beauty line
LATimes.com
An interview with spa expert Abi Wright on her views on the industry
Forbes.com
Celebrity perfume sales dropped 22% according to the NDP Group
RetailTimes.co.uk
Wynn Hotel (owned by Steven Wynn, friend of Donald Trump) stops selling Tom Ford products after the designer refused to dress Melani Trump
Racked.com, Refinery29.com
An interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on “Why you can be a feminist and love makeup”
Allure.com
Kylie Jenner shares images from makeup artist Vlada Haggerty, after claims she copied them for her branding
TheFashionLaw.com, HarpesBazaar.com
Laser hair removal is Teyana Taylor’s skincare secret
Self.com
Kardashian sisters lose arbitration against Kroma
Law.com
An interview with Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial
Forbes – Cached
An interview with Jon Hamm about grooming, his hair, and makeup
Glamour.com
An interview with Erin Maynard co-founder of Storybook Cosmetics
Bustle.com
An interview with Dr. Kidd, Kendall Jenner’s dermatologist
HelloMagazine.com
Daughter of Napoleon Perdis, Lianna Perdis, launches her own skincare range
DailyTelegraph.com.au
An interview with Instagrammer Georgie Aldous and his push to have more men included in makeup ads
Mic.com
Beauty Pie founder Marcia Kilgore: “I’m liberating women – we’re finally taking the power back”
Standard.co.uk
An interview with Surfer Stephanie Gilmore on fashion and beauty
HeraldSun.com.au
“Meet the entrepreneurs who are breaking beauty boundaries”
HelloMagazine.com
Nigerian actress Angela Okorie slams men who wear cosmetics
News24.com.ng
Asia
Korea’s nationwide Grand Sale starts on January 20th to February 28th, 2017
KoreaGrandSale.co.kr.com
EXO shares is beauty secrets at a Nature Republic event
KoreaTimes.co.kr
LG H&H to launch customized cosmetics brand ReMede by CNP with first store in Seoul
PulseNews.co.kr
New K-Beauty retailer Ulzzang launched by Anna Wang and her business partner, Dookyo Chung joins the fray
Refinery29.uk
China ups THAAD retaliation against Korean products
KoreaTimes.co.kr
A preview of Japan’s Creer Beauty Sailor Moon palette
Refinery29.com
Sovo, a Korean shoemaking brand, branches out into skincare with Nuca Beauty
Wallpaper.com
Hair volume reducing products popular among Asian men, discovers Mintel
Mintel.com
Korean University and Seoul National University professors develop “skin avatar” that could replace animal and clinical testing
Donga.com
A tour of K-Beauty in Los Angeles’ Korea Town
Refinery29.com
China’s Jala Group 3D prints skin to test cosmetics for the Asian market
#Ders.org
Shiseido acquires MatchCo, a startup app that scans your skin and makes a custom foundation
Fortune.com
Shiseido appoints Kentaro Fujiwara to President of Shiseido China
ShiseidoGroup.com
SK Telecom and AmorePacific partner to develop IoT processes to encourage new product developments
BusinessKorea.co.kr
Cosme Tokyo 2017 convention opens its doors
KyodoNews.jp
Amorepacific opens Research & Innovation Laboratory in Singapore
AmorePacific.com
“Anti-Korean sentiment worsening in China”
HuffingtonPost.com
Target to begin selling K-Beauty products in collaboration with Peach & Lily
Target.com
Cosmetics sales surge as Korean duty free market rockets +33.5% to $10.5 billion USD
MoodieDavittReport.com
AmorePacific plans to expand stores in South Asia
Pulsenews.co.kr
Korean shopkeepers favouring Chinese student employees due to Chinese tourism
Chosun.com
Hindustan Unilever says India’s note ban effect fading
DNAIndia.com
Ramdev faces a test in economics: Patanjali nears inflection point
IndiaTimes.com
Market
“Behind the business of beauty dupes”
BusinessofFashion.com
“Millennials are tapping into mysticism and ancient wisdom, a trend now being seen in beauty products”
WWD.com
“Sephora’s brand balancing act”
Pymnts.com
E-Ink partners with Texen to bring e-ink to cosmetic packaging
GoodEReader.com
UK’s Debenhams department store sales boosted by beauty sales
Telegraph.co.uk
This year’s hot hair colour is ‘Blorange’
Popsugar.co.uk
Nordstrom’s national beauty director explains its naturals expansion
Forbes.com
Inside Vice’s fashion and beauty strategy
BusinessofFashion.com
P&G revitalises Olay, Herbal Essences, Head & Shoulders, and Pantene after COTY deal
WWD.com
Unilever’s Dove defends its self-empowerment campaigns inside schools, “Not about selling product”
MarketingWeek.com
Outreach
L’Oreal’s NYX Cosmetics “instructed retail employees to collect unnecessary personal information from First Nations customers who pay with a status card” in Canada
Buzzfeed.com
Researchers in Madrid create 3D skin printer
UC3M.es
New technique IDs micropollutants in New York waterways
Cornell.edu
Swiss ban on animal-tested cosmetics enters into force
ChemicalWatch.com
Unilever commits to 100% recyclable plastic packaging by 2025
Unilever.com
UK charity Give and Makeup seeks cosmetics donations for domestic abuse survivors
ElleUJ.com
Use of dried elephant skin used to treat eczema threatening Myanmar’s elephants
MmTimes.com
Olay and 23andMe release finding, “Women who wore sunscreen were more likely to be exceptional skin agers”
Businesswire.com
Consumers launch class-action lawsuit against Sunday Riley’s Bionic product for “drug-like claims”
TopClassActions.com, TruthinAdvertising.org – PDF, Racked.com
Lush to host ethical-themed event in East London in February
EventMagazaine.co.uk
P&G’s Head & Shoulders launches recyclable shampoo bottle
PG.com
Scottish politicians complain about the length of The Body Shop’s receipts
TheTimes.co.uk
Burt’s Bees uproots and transports its founder’s Maine cabin to North Carolina then turns it into a museum to honour his ethos of living off the grid
PRNewswire.com
Hawaiian state senate propose laws to ban the sale and use of oxybenzone, to help protect coral reefs
CivilBeat.org
Physician’s Formula lawsuit settled with $5.6 million USD for investors
Law360.com
USDA seeks public input on proposed a new organic industry-funded research and promotion program
USDA.gov
Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety says preservative poly-aminopropyl biguanide is safe for use at a concentration of 0.1%
ChemicalWatch.com
Kylie Jenner raised $500 000 USD through sales of her charity lip kit
Inquisitr.com
P&G aims for zero (<0.5%) waste to landfill manufacturing by 2020
PG.com
Corporate
Revlon aims for $5 billion USD in sales with revitalised brands
Bloomberg.com
Social-retailer Modere announces agreement to acquire nutraceutical producer Jusuru International
PRNewswire.com
James Murphy sells Viviscal hair restoration brand to Church & Dwight for around €150 million
IrishTimes.com
Camille McDonald, president of brand merchandising at Bath & Body Works, to retire
WWD.com
Vermont cosmetic manufacturer Autumn Harp receives Vermont Economic Development Authority funding
VermontBiz.com
J&J opens Life Science Research Incubator in NYC
CommercialObserver.com
Rituals tops list of fastest growing Dutch companies
DutchNews.nl
IMAGE Skincare files lawsuit against unauthorised online retailers
PRNewswire.com
Avon to webcast 4th quarter earnings on February 16th, 2017
PRNewswire.com
Nu Skin to announce 4th quarter and 2016 results on February 16th, 2017
PRNewswire.com
HLD Group and Didier Tabary acquire Le Couvent des Minimes from L’Occitane
GroupeHLD.com
Interesting Reads
Canadian cosmetic surgeon wins $20.6 million CAD jackpot and retires
CBC.ca
Dr. Amy Alderman performed live breast augmentation surgery at the Breast Surgery Symposium in Atlanta
PRNewswire.com
“My mom’s skincare secrets made me the man I am today” by David Yi
Refinery29.com
“How to treat dry skin when you’re breaking out, according to experts”
Bustle.com
A look at Central Asian “Gypsies” who sell their hair to China
NationalGeographic.org
“My skin stole my happiness” by Patricia on her chronic acne
Seventeen.com
“Not waiting for your products to dry before smearing them on a pillow may be ruining your skin” – Nay, your life and the world.
StyleCaster.com
“Do exfoliating scrubs do your skin more harm than good? – There is no scientific evidence of irreversible, long-term damage.”
SMH.com.au
“Why you actually do not want to wear BB cream — ever again!” It’s pale and cakey
Popsugar.com
Historical beauty tricks; Like using soot as eyeliner and petroleum jelly to thicken eyelashes
Bustle.com
“How ‘alt-beauty’ became the hottest trend in men’s fashion”
TheGuardian.com
