Breaking the Boys’ Club: How Five Women Are Redefining Beauty and Business
In honor of Women’s History Month, CEW spotlight five up and coming female entrepreneurs on how they’re creating beauty brands that are reshaping the industry.
CEW Product Watch February 2025
This month’s beauty landscape brings a wave of new products that guarantee a transformative season. Among the standout launches are makeup stick formats that simplify application and luxury fragrances that rethink the art and science of perfumery.
CEW Product Watch December 2024
As the year draws to a close, the beauty industry is saving the best for last with new collections that are perfect for gifting and indulging. Whether you’re searching for a supremely decadent holiday gift or treating yourself (you really do deserve it), these products embody the season’s spirit of luxury and self-care. Here, the standout beauty products that are making a debut this month.
Christina Oster-Daum: How I Became the Founder of Cosnova Beauty
Christina Oster Daum, co-owner of the German beauty company Cosnova, has turned it into a billion-dollar business over two decades, with popular brands Catrice and Essence. With a passion for making beauty accessible to all, she talks to CEW about self-funding, shunning advertising, and how to succeed in the U.S. mass market.
Revealed: The 2024 CEW Beauty Award Winners
What are the best new beauty products of 2024? This year’s CEW Beauty Award Winners were announced today at a luncheon at The Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
Five Minutes with Mary Van Praag, Global CEO, Milani Cosmetics
With three decades of global omnichannel experience, Mary van Praag knows how to transform companies. Her resume includes roles at firms including Revlon, Johnson & Johnson, Perricone MD, and Coty Inc. Since joining Milani Cosmetics in 2020, she’s energized the 23-year-old brand, boosting sales more than 50% to $200 million-plus. Here, van Praag talks about how she’s fusing Milani’s core products with innovative launches to be “the newest legacy brand” in the mass business.
Makeup Users Everywhere: Why a Good Makeup Brush Can Make All the Difference
The founder of Anisa International has been in the brush biz for more than 30 years. Here’s how Anisa created a kinder, cleaner, more sustainable beauty brush firm.
CEW Product Watch October 2024
As October unfolds, the beauty industry is doing its part to keep the epidermis in tip-top shape with a slew of new moisturizers and treatments designed for the scalp, face, neck, body – even buttocks. Meanwhile, holiday season is starting to simmer with the rollout of giftable sets and exclusive retail partnerships. Here, the launches that everybody’s talking about this month.
CEW Product Watch September 2024
Cult revivals, collector’s editions, and a cream that costs more per ounce than platinum (yes, we did the math), September is spoiling us all, and we’ve found the goods to prove it. Here, the newest investment pieces that merit a coveted spot on the vanity.
Beauty’s Top Headlines: September 18, 2024
Nutrafol’s Giorgos Tsetis Video Interview, Skinification Levels Up, DKC Gets Majority Investment From ACC, Amazon Prime Day’s Early Bird Beauty Deals, Estée Lauder Hosting Climate Week Event, JP Morgan Names Marcia Kilgore’s Beauty Pie Among UK’s Top ‘Women-Powered’ Firms
Beauty’s Top Headlines: September 17, 2024
Beauty Brushes Up Its Act, Pathology’s New Invisible Face Mask, Cassandra Grey Buys Back Violet Grey, Lancôme Taps Nico Parker As Youngest Face, Nina Ricci Unveils Vénus Scent, Ulta Beauty Announces 2024 MUSE Accelerator Cohort
Beauty’s Top Headlines: September 12, 2024
Multi-Use Makeup Gains Momentum, Margot Robbie Announced New Face Of Chanel No.5, L’Oréal Paris Taps Cara Delevingne As New Global Ambassador, Sephora North America Appoints Delphine Herve CFO, Fekkai Styling Crème Makes Comeback, Is Glossier Play Coming Back?