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Why health, fitness and beauty brands are getting real (and funny)

Inside Retail

Health, fitness and beauty. A simple image search for health and fitness reveals screeds of bronzed, impossibly-toned bodies, paired with motivational slogans encouraging people to try harder, reach further, strive, dominate, or ‘just do it’. However, times are changing.

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Chemist Warehouse is eying the beauty sector. Should Priceline be worried?

Inside Retail

Additionally, Chemist Warehouse unveiled its store-within-a-store luxe beauty concept Ultra Beauty in June, indicating a much larger focus on the beauty sector and potentially a more competitive environment for both retailers in the future. . Priceline is very much centred around beauty,” Mortimer told Inside Retail.

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Luxe-for-less leader MCoBeauty talks international expansion

Inside Retail

Founded in 2016, luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty has seen massive growth over the past several years, and is expecting revenue growth of up to 90 per cent in 2023. Our brand awareness is driven through social media, and really that’s our number one form of advertising: TikTok and Instagram, and Facebook digital advertising.

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Farewell, filters: Why brands aren’t worried about new photo editing laws

Inside Retail

But the industry is increasingly under scrutiny, due to the impact content can have on the mental health of young people, with many influencers criticised for misleading consumers about products and their appearance through the use of editing tools. billion this year, up from US$9.7 Importance of authenticity.

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As millennials embrace natural skincare, Jurlique sees an opportunity to grow

Inside Retail

Ask any beauty insider and they’ll tell you that natural skincare – where products are infused with ingredients found in nature rather than a lab – is trending. But it’s not enough to communicate on social media alone, especially as the advertising around natural skincare becomes increasingly noisy.

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Analysis: Inside the murky business of skin whitening

Inside Retail

June 2020 marked a major turning point for some of the world’s biggest beauty brands. After years of growing criticism about the sale of skin-whitening products in Asia and overt advertising campaigns equating lighter skin with greater beauty and desirability, global companies finally started to change their offerings.

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Skin deep: Why Camilla and Marc, H&M and Jurlique are embracing ageing

Inside Retail

High end beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands have been some of the slowest categories to really embrace the use of mature models for genuine marketing purposes (not just for a quick PR stunt). Beauty faces up to ageing. And with Australia’s burgeoning beauty market expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 3.87

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