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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’. The pandemic mindset-shift for fitness. He was raw, honest and brilliantly witty. “If

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

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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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How accessories brand Hello Updo is challenging traditional beauty standards

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Inside Retail connected with Hurtado to learn more about how Hello Updo fills a white space in the haircare market, how her brand honored Hispanic Heritage Month and her dream of creating a world where every hair type has its rightful place in beauty. We are empowering them to embrace their own beauty.

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

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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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Keeping up appearances in Thailand’s booming beauty market

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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. Part of the strategy is to expand its reach beyond the everyday mid-market Thai consumer by offering more prestige department-store brands.

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Wellness booms and so does the share price of pharmaceutical retailers

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Wellness has become a priority for people in the wake of the pandemic as evidenced by the surge in demand for health and well-being products, which is projected to reach $5.2 Priceline is another Australian pharmacy that has increased its foothold in the beauty and wellness space under the ownership of retail conglomerate Wesfarmers.

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Bankrupt beauty: Lessons from Revlon’s supply chain failures

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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. When business was booming, Revlon’s strategy was to expand sales through mass market department stores, as well as buying expensive advertising. The democratisation of beauty.