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Skincare

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Rachel Strugatz • July 10, 2024

Midnight in the Garden of Goop and Evil

News and notes on the latest beauty industry chatter: Goop’s brick-and-mortar expansion, and the executive shuffle at Pat McGrath Labs.
Rachel Strugatz • May 29, 2024
Sephora Wars & Glossier’s Balm Drama
Heela Yang Sol de Janeiro
News and notes on the latest intrigue consuming beauty insiders: Sol de Janeiro leapfrogging Rare Beauty at Sephora and Glossier’s Balm Dotcom pivot.
Rachel Strugatz • March 13, 2024
Profit & Glossier
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Glossier, perhaps the most iconic consumer beauty brand of its generation, felt all the feels of startup life: boffo fundraising, a market correction, and recalibrated post-wunderkind success. Now it may finally be ready for its exit.
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Rachel Strugatz • March 6, 2024
Summer Fridays Deal Heat & Sephoracon
News and notes on the drama du jour in the beauty salt mines: Summer Fridays’ new banker and Sephora’s new set of “darlings.”
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Rachel Strugatz • February 14, 2024
Sturm und Drang
All the murmurs and feels surrounding the $240 million Sturm-Puig deal.
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Lauren Sherman • February 1, 2024
Zit for Tat
A candid conversation with Julie Schott and Brian Bordainick, the serial beauty entrepreneurs, on the financing and brand strategy behind their zeitgeist-shifting, $90-million-a-year, pimple patch empire.