DIBS Beauty's Jeff Lee and Courtney Shields: 'The customer is smarter than ever'
Growing up in communities of color, Jeff Lee and Courtney Shields were both early to understanding the importance of diversity and inclusion in beauty. When they met virtually through peers during the...
23 Feb 202344min
Ourself co-founders Lauren Otsuki and Vimla Black-Gupta: 'Clinical skin care is back'
When Lauren Otsuki and Vimla Black-Gupta launched skin-care brand Ourself in February 2022, their main goal was to provide beauty consumers with cosmetic enhancement options other than injections and ...
16 Feb 202339min
Mario Badescu’s Joseph Cabasso on Martha Stewart, inflation and TikTok’s skin-care cancel culture
From Kylie Jenner to Martha Stewart, 51-year-old skin-care brand Mario Badescu has been cited as a go-to by a wide range of celebrities known for their strong thirst trap game. What started as a small...
9 Feb 202339min
John Legend on his new skin-care brand, life with a newborn, toxic masculinity and backlash politics
One of only 17 artists to ever achieve EGOT status, singer-songwriter John Legend is also a man of many business ventures, such as wine, fashion and now skin care. On this week’s episode of the Glossy...
2 Feb 202343min
Unilever CEO of Health & Wellbeing Jostein Solheim on the new definition of health
Formerly the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s, Jostein Solheim took the helm of Unilever’s Health & Wellbeing division in June 2021. He’s drawing on over 30 years of experience at Unilever to guide the 4-year-old...
26 Jan 202341min
MOB Beauty and Pure Culture Beauty's Victor Casale on fighting the ‘purchase, consume, and discard’ mentality
A beauty industry veteran, Victor Casale knows a thing or two about building brands. After serving as the chief chemist at MAC Cosmetics from its inception through its acquisition, he later went on to...
19 Jan 202342min
Rationale's Richard Parker on building a trusted skin-care brand
From an early age, Richard Parker was aware of his skin. When Parker was a teenager, he was diagnosed with a skin condition caused by sun damage called ochronosis. And in his early 20s, he suffered fr...
12 Jan 202329min
Thirteen Lune’s Nyakio Grieco: ‘People buy into people before they buy into products’
After selling her skin-care brand Nyakio Beauty to Unilever in 2017, Nyakio Grieco set her sights on beauty retail with the launch of Thirteen Lune in 2020. As multiple beauty retailers were pledging ...
5 Jan 202340min
