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1 week ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
Hudson’s Bay, the storied Canadian department store retailer often referred to as “The Bay,” is closing by June 15 after 350-plus years in operation, prompting sadness and frustration from homegrown beauty brands that looked to it as a champion of indie beauty.
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1 week ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
In just two years, TikTok Shop has generated $2 billion in beauty sales, but Emily Rhodes, interim head of personal care for it, emphasized during a Beauty Independent In Conversation webinar last week that it takes much more than hopping on the platform for a beauty brand to do business on it.
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1 week ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
In an algorithm-driven digital world where fortunes can change overnight, going viral often seems like a dream come true for beauty brands. However, bridging an instant pop and prolonged sales requires clever strategies.
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1 week ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
J.C. Penney has ended a partnership with inclusive retailer Thirteen Lune that brought minority-owned brands to over 600 of its stores, but was challenged by Thirteen Lune’s financial difficulties that led to participating brands not getting compensated. Thirteen Lune’s shop-in-shop branding disappeared from J.C. Penney’s beauty departments about a month ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
As it wrestles with the effects of heightened tariffs on goods entering the United States, Space NK informed customers Wednesday that it’s temporarily halting online purchases for customers in the country. In a brief email, the British beauty specialty retailer explained, “We’re making some changes to how we serve our U.S. customers.
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2 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
Ranger Station has traveled north to set up shop in the Big Apple—and is looking to spread elsewhere. Opening May 17 on Bleecker Street in New York City’s West Village neighborhood, the Nashville-based brand’s 500-square-foot store will sell unisex perfumes, candles, hand and body care, diffusers, room sprays, car scents and limited-edition items from its Features line that’s struck collaborations with country and folk musicians Noah Kahan, Dan + Shay, Ernest and Shooter Jennings.
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2 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
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2 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
“This is our moment,” says Maly Bernstein, CEO of Macy’s Inc.-owned Bluemercury. “This is our time to create confidence through sticking to our core strengths. The personalized service with the focus on product efficacy in the comfort of your neighborhood couldn’t be more in demand.”Bluemercury, which has registered 16 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth, has had pretty good moments leading up to now, but this particular moment could certainly prove—or disprove—its resilience.
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3 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
Feverish beauty industry competition and consumer unease are among several factors contributing to sales during Sephora’s spring Savings Event sliding from last year. Data from market research firm YipitData shows that makeup and haircare sales for the event, which ran from April 4 to 14, were each down around 15% in stores and online, and skincare sales slipped more than 25%. A bright spot, sales in the fragrance category rose a high single-digit percentage from last year.
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3 weeks ago | 
beautyindependent.com | Erica La Sala
Juice Beauty has run out of juice. The clean beauty pioneer—started by Karen Behnke in 2005, it filed for a trademark on the term “clean beauty” a decade ago and launched National Clean Beauty Day in 2021—is liquidating its assets as part of a bankruptcy alternative called assignment for the benefit of creditors that publication Women’s Wear Daily, which discovered its staff was let go in February, covered first.
