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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. He was raw, honest and brilliantly witty. “If

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How beauty brand Glossier went from social media darling to social outcast

Inside Retail

Beauty’s first unicorn, a digital pioneer, the first Millennial-focused brand…five years ago, these were all buzzwords associated with the beauty lifestyle brand Glossier. The brand began as a spinoff from founder Emily Weiss’s notable beauty blog ‘Into The Gloss’. Social media darling no more. Mass layoffs.

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Is Jim’s Beauty set to flop like Harley-Davidson perfume – or could it be branding genius?

Inside Retail

It’s Jim’s Beauty , offering “professional beauty treatments in the comfort of your chosen space”. These services are usually offered in the client’s home, and are provided by franchisees, as will the beauty services – which will include facial, lash and brow and nail treatments, as well as waxing and teeth whitening.

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How Hue’s Nicole Clay is making the beauty industry more inclusive

Inside Retail

However, even though Black women, and the BIPOC community more broadly, are the largest driver of sales across multiple beauty product categories, they are often the least represented in the multibillion-dollar industry. per cent of total beauty industry ventures. per cent of total beauty industry ventures.

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What does the TGA’s health influencer ‘ban’ mean for business?

Inside Retail

From July 1, under new guidelines from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), social media influencers will no longer be paid to promote health and beauty products using their own personal experience. The post What does the TGA’s health influencer ‘ban’ mean for business? Short-term pain for long-term gain.

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“Incredibly smart”: Kmart targets Gen Z with updated beauty offering

Inside Retail

The face of beauty is shifting, with younger generations leading a step change in the way the industry approaches marketing and retail. They’re] the ones driving change across the industry,” Kmart’s beauty buyer Nicola Farrell told Inside Retail.

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Behind the push to phase out photoshop and show “real skin” in beauty ads

Inside Retail

But while a growing number of fashion brands are now advertising in a more body-positive way the same shift hasn’t occurred in the beauty industry, which still largely depicts flawless skin to sell products. However, the beauty industry still has a way to go. People want clear skin, we all know and understand that.