Beauty Retail

Beauty services specialist Fancy Face eyes retail expansion

22-Dec-2022 By Kirsty Doolan

Canadian beauty services brand Fancy Face saw success with its signature product line and flagship store and is now focusing on expanding reach and finding specific retail partners.

‘Retailers have got more involved' in ethical beauty – Ecovia Intelligence

07-Dec-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Retailers are getting more involved in ethical standards and certifications, with many creating in-house schemes for beauty brands stocked in-store and online, and this trend will continue to rise in importance, says the founder of Ecovia Intelligence.

Pop-up power: Beauty brands can use ‘uniquely designed spaces’ to build hype and community, says Mintel

04-Oct-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Temporary retail spaces offer beauty brands opportunity to build hype and drive community post-pandemic – both key in an increasingly competitive UK market, says Mintel.

Unconventional faces: ‘Stereotypical depictions of beauty are shifting,’ says expert

31-Aug-2022 By Shane Starling

Shaved heads, no eyebrows and messy makeup are some of the latest visuals popping up in beauty as Generation Z emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic looking to flip the lid on dated, traditional narratives.

Experience-first beauty: A.S. Watson bolsters engagement with AI-powered skin advisor tool

22-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Retail major A.S. Watson has grown digital beauty engagement across Superdrug and ICI PARIS XL with an AI-powered skin advisor tool co-developed with Finnish beauty tech firm Revieve – an innovation it plans to rollout across Asia next year.

The rise of Amazon beauty: A fast-paced world where consumers want ‘everything yesterday’

13-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Amazon has long been an e-commerce goliath but as it edges deeper into beauty, brands should take note, especially given its model offers a lot of what today’s consumer wants, an expert says.

Retail expert: Unified commerce, data connectivity and the metaverse to be future for beauty

06-Dec-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Unified commerce where online and offline are intrinsically linked, a sharper and smarter focus on data, and investment in the metaverse must be the future focus for beauty brands and retailers, says a retail expert.

Beautiful bounce back? Online to fuel 50% of global health and beauty sales growth by 2026

24-Aug-2021 By Kacey Culliney

E-commerce will continue its insatiable rise over the next five years in beauty, with pureplay online retailers like Alibaba, Amazon and JD.com set to bolster significant growth and brand-retailer collaborations to prove key, says an expert.

Young beauty: Sephora clearly on a mission to capture British millennials and Gen Z, says expert

28-Jul-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Sephora’s acquisition of British beauty e-commerce major Feelunique and tie-up with German online fashion retailer Zalando are clearly part of a move to capture younger beauty consumers, notably millennials and Gen Z, says an analyst.

The Hut Group needs own-brand and premium beauty edge to stay ‘ahead of rivals’: GlobalData

14-Jan-2021 By Kacey Culliney

UK e-commerce major The Hut Group has aggressively expanded in recent months, propelling it way ahead of competitors in health and beauty, but it must now deepen its customer base to continue leading in such a crowded market, says GlobalData.

Testers are over, but can the ‘touch-and-try’ cosmetics business rely on virtual testing post-pandemic?

14-Jul-2020 By Amanda Lim

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has marked the end of in-store cosmetic testers, but one firm doubts the abilities of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and similar technology to completely replace them.

What beauty retail brought us in 2019

18-Dec-2019 By Simon Pitman

Beauty retail has come full evolved beyond all recognition in the past few years, with digital retailers, social media and the growth of dedicated high street chains such as Ulta and Sephora all playing a part.