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Why health, fitness and beauty brands are getting real (and funny)

Inside Retail

Health, fitness and beauty. A simple image search for health and fitness reveals screeds of bronzed, impossibly-toned bodies, paired with motivational slogans encouraging people to try harder, reach further, strive, dominate, or ‘just do it’. However, times are changing. He was raw, honest and brilliantly witty. “If

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How beauty brand Glossier went from social media darling to social outcast

Inside Retail

Beauty’s first unicorn, a digital pioneer, the first Millennial-focused brand…five years ago, these were all buzzwords associated with the beauty lifestyle brand Glossier. The brand began as a spinoff from founder Emily Weiss’s notable beauty blog ‘Into The Gloss’. Social media darling no more. Mass layoffs.

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Bankrupt beauty: Lessons from Revlon’s supply chain failures

Inside Retail

For the 90-year-old beauty giant, the filing represents a final lifeline, as it attempts to rectify debt with creditors by borrowing over $370million. In 1970, it was the first American cosmetics company to feature an African American model, icon Naomi Sims, in their advertising. The democratisation of beauty.

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Keeping up appearances in Thailand’s booming beauty market

Inside Retail

So it follows that, along with all the face re-arrangements and botoxing (which, by the way, is also turning Thailand into a medical tourism hub) is a post-Covid boom in the retail beauty product sector. Lotions, serums, sunscreens and other skincare products typically advertise whitening on the label. billion last year.

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Is Jim’s Beauty set to flop like Harley-Davidson perfume – or could it be branding genius?

Inside Retail

It’s Jim’s Beauty , offering “professional beauty treatments in the comfort of your chosen space”. These services are usually offered in the client’s home, and are provided by franchisees, as will the beauty services – which will include facial, lash and brow and nail treatments, as well as waxing and teeth whitening.

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What does the TGA’s health influencer ‘ban’ mean for business?

Inside Retail

From July 1, under new guidelines from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), social media influencers will no longer be paid to promote health and beauty products using their own personal experience. The post What does the TGA’s health influencer ‘ban’ mean for business? Short-term pain for long-term gain.

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“Incredibly smart”: Kmart targets Gen Z with updated beauty offering

Inside Retail

The face of beauty is shifting, with younger generations leading a step change in the way the industry approaches marketing and retail. They’re] the ones driving change across the industry,” Kmart’s beauty buyer Nicola Farrell told Inside Retail.