Archive | Health/beauty

Candy Kisses

With the current popularity of food brands, especially those of the sweet variety, across all consumer products, and the current power of the beauty category as a center of collaboration activity, it is no wonder that partnerships pairing candy, cookies, and other sweets with color cosmetics, lip balms, skincare, and the like have been a […]

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Technology + Beauty = Opportunity

A notable trend in the beauty industry in recent years has been the rise of technology-powered devices that are billed as advantageous for beauty and wellness, especially in the skin-, nail-, and haircare categories.  Some examples include tools featuring red- and blue-light therapy, dermaplaning, smart cleaning technology, microcurrent and microneedling, intense pulsed light (IPL), and […]

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Characters Clean Up in Personal Care Category

Skincare, haircare, bodycare, and other personal care products have been an active category for licensing in recent years, across a wide variety of property types. One subsegment that has been a hot spot in the past 12 months is personal care items tied to children’s entertainment and character properties, mostly of the classic or nostalgic […]

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Hair Stylists Head Into New Opportunities

Hair stylists are very frequent collaborators on signature collections with brands that offer hair care-related products and services. As these celebrities become more well known professionally and personally, through reality shows and social media, they have occasionally had opportunities to step into sectors outside of hair care as well, especially within the beauty space. Some […]

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At First Blush, An Unexpected Pairing

NYX Professional Makeup announced this month that it was working with chef Gordon Ramsay and his daughter, beauty and lifestyle influencer Holly Ramsay, to create a cake recipe inspired by NYX’s new introduction, Buttermelt Blush. The exclusive recipe—which includes ingredients found in the beauty product, such as shea and almond butters, and results in a […]

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New Players in Fashion-Licensed Beauty

Fragrance and, increasingly, other categories of beauty such as cosmetics and skincare, are staples of most fashion licensors’ businesses. Conversely, fashion labels are a foundational component of the portfolios of most of the largest players in fragrance and beauty. Yet there are still a few established fashion labels that have just recently signed their first […]

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The Skinny on Celebrities and Men’s Skincare

Last week it was announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was launching a skincare brand, adding his name to the fast-growing list of skincare lines tied to male actors, musicians, and other celebrities known for their accomplishments outside the beauty and wellness industry. The landscape is varied. Most of the celeb-connected lines, which range from […]

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Picture-Perfect Beauty

Art museums, and the fine artists whose work appears in those institutions, have increasingly been forging licensing and collaboration deals in the beauty category—especially in fragrances—resulting in creative interpretations of key works of art, not just on packaging but in the formulation of the scents and color palettes themselves. Products range from exceedingly limited and […]

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