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How accessories brand Hello Updo is challenging traditional beauty standards

Inside Retail

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. I questioned why there weren’t hair ties for textured, fuller hair.

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How online retailer Style Story is riding the K-beauty wave

Inside Retail

Style Story founder Lauren Lee discovered her love of Korean beauty products as an exchange student in 2011, which inspired her to launch her own e-commerce business back home in Brisbane, Australia. “On I knew that they would love the ingredients, formulas, approach and purpose of K-Beauty as well.”.

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Q&A: How Rationale is taking Australian luxury beauty to the world

Inside Retail

Last month, Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale launched its first two international boutiques in Singapore, under the wing of South Korean beauty giant Amorepacific, which invested in the company in 2020. The complete focus from Richard has always been on optimal skin health. We’ve still stayed true to ourselves.

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“Asia is a key region for us”: Kypris’ CEO Chase Polan

Inside Retail

After expanding in North America, high-end beauty brand Kypris is now turning its attention to the Asian market, starting with its debut in Japan. Japan’s deep cultural appreciation for beauty, ritual, and craftsmanship closely aligns with Kypris’ ethos,” Chase Polan , founder and CEO of Kypris, told Inside Retail.

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The next Vera Wang: Steven Khalil Interieur and Designer Rugs’ floor couture

Inside Retail

If this goes well, I feel like the world is my oyster with anything I would go into; beautiful homewares; like cutlery, plates anything to do with the home. So one day it was just a conversation and the next Owen connected me with Designer Rugs; that snowballed, and here we are.

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How fashionista Trinny Woodall created her own beauty empire

Inside Retail

Now the entrepreneur is at the helm of her own beauty brand, Trinny London, focused on making cosmetics easy to wear and accessible to everyone. We chat with Woodall about how her brand fills a gap in the beauty sector and connecting with customers through content.

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Dr Sam’s to open pop up at London’s Westfield White City to celebrate launch in Sephora UK

Retail Focus

The updated Routine Finder tool also includes a NEW skin coach to track and measure the progress in the 7 key areas of skin concerns, including radiance, texture, wrinkles and redness and will be on show for its first reveal to consumers at the Dr Sam’s pop up.