Jane Carlson

2 weeks ago | beautyindependent.com | Jane Carlson

Lawless Beauty’s Forget the Filler franchise, which started with the clean cosmetics brand’s hero plumping lip gloss in 2021, has another hit. A test of Lawless’s ability to extend Forget the Filler across categories, Skin-Plumping Line-Smoothing Foundation, a full-coverage foundation that boasts blurring properties and builds on the brand’s positioning in plumping, beat its first-month sales target by 33% in the two weeks after its February debut.

1 month ago | beautyindependent.com | Jane Carlson

Beauty Independent is introducing C-Suite Summit, a two-day executive retreat designed exclusively for leaders scaling the beauty industry’s most ambitious brands. Taking place April 7 to 8 at the Durango Resort in Las Vegas, the invitation-only summit will serve as a strategic “base camp” for executives from brands with $20 million to $100 million in annual revenues and laser-focused on the nuanced challenges—and immense opportunities—facing both founder-led and operator-run companies.

1 month ago | beautyindependent.com | Jane Carlson

Nominations are open for Beauty Independent’s Beacon Awards, the annual program honoring the brightest lights in the emerging beauty space. Now in its sixth year, the Beacon Awards celebrate companies and people reshaping the beauty industry across 28 categories spanning brands, products, retailers, investors and executives. New this year is the addition of a treatment category highlighting the practitioners and modalities redefining the future of aesthetics and wellness.

Jan 20, 2025 | beautyindependent.com | Jane Carlson

In response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, Beauty Independent has changed planned for its highly anticipated BITE LA event and is instead hosting Beauty [loves] LA: Summit for Recovery, a one-day event focused on uniting and uplifting the LA beauty community during this challenging time. “Holding a large trade event in Los Angeles right now is not feasible,” says Nader Naeymi-Rad, founder and publisher of Beauty Independent.

Jan 8, 2025 | beautyindependent.com | Jane Carlson

KJH Brand, Sahajan and Educated Mess have been chosen for the first 2025 cohort of Bridge Mentorship, a program from True Beauty Ventures and Beauty Independent to equip emerging beauty brands with strategies for fundraising and scaling.