Category Archives: Brands

Purple Lab NYC – A Social Beauty Phenomenon at HSN

Karen Rabinovitz, creatrix of Purple Lab NY debuted her line on HSN last Thursday, Feb 18th with 5 new products. Last December, she shared the news with her Huffington Post readers: "I have the biggest news of a lifetime … HSN! HSN! HSN! Purple Lab and I are coming to HSN! The dream! I cannot even begin to [...]
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Events: Beauty Bloggers Mingle at NYFW Media Mixer

Meet ups, Tweet ups – huh? Events now come in many different shapes and names and have become a popular format for connecting bloggers that interact on a regular basis through social media tools. "The Bi-Annual NYFW Media Mixer is the premiere event for bloggers and online media to connect and network to connect with [...]
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The Beauty of Social Commerce: The Nhuch interviews Ted Rubin, CMO, e.l.f Cosmetics

thenhuch.com hosted an interview with Ted Rubin, CMO of e.l.f Cosmetics as part of Social Media Week in NYC. In an intimate event, that took place at the new e.l.f showroom and headquarters, Ted spoke to us about social media, social commerce, relationship with bloggers, askelf, tips about tweeting and managing different social media tools, [...]
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Bobbi Brown #prettypowerful Tuesdays Tweetstake

  Great social marketing campaign by Bobbi Brown reported by the The Beauty Chick blog. Asking their community why Bobbi Brown Cosmetics makes them feel "pretty powerful" is a clever way to gather huge amounts of insights and sentiment about the brand. This is a good example of using giveaways/sampling as currency in exchange for a [...]
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Mark Girl Selling on Facebook. Is this the beggining of a new era?

Mark, is on its way to change forever direct selling for the next generation. According to WWD, this was Andrea Jung’s request to Claudia Puccia, when she was appointed as Mark’s Global president in 2005. First was the iPhone app launched in August  to help sellers replace their old catalogs. Now Facebook users can [...]
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Lancome: Declaring Indigo iPhone App

After Facebook, iPhone apps seem to be getting traction in the beauty industry. This past October, Lancome launched an app to promote its Declaring Indigo Fall 09 Color collection by make up artist Aaron De Mey (one of the most talented make-up artists of his generation according to the app intro and brandall77 a Total [...]
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Bliss: From Kilgore to LVMH to Starwood to Steiner

Interesting trajectory for a brand that was dreamed up by  celebrity facialist Marcia Kilgore (check out her house in London) in the early 90s. Seventy percent of the brand was sold by Kilgore to LVMH in 1999 for an estimated $30 million. In 2004, LVMH sold its share to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., which [...]
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Harajuku Lovers Innovative Strategy

Insight by Leah It’s clear that since the economic downturn, fragrance sales have taken a nose dive.  Combined with the fact that the market is saturated with new fragrance launches every week, this sector is in desperate need of some help – and soon.  As consumers decide either to not purchase or to stick with dependable [...]
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L’Oreal Paris Packaging Innovation: New Roll’on Accord Parfait

Insight by Andrea Product developers are always asked to look at other industries for inspiration. Most products are a variation sur le même thème presented in stock packaging (mostly because tooling costs are prohibitive for most small and medium companies). So we have mostly relied in larger companies to lead the way in breaking the rules [...]
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Korres partners with J&J in the US

Korres partners with J&J in the US Insight by Andrea Korres, an Athens  based, natural skin care line, distributed in 400 Sephora and Whole Food doors plus 2 stand-alone stores signed a licensing deal with J&J. Korres global sales are $85 million with 80% generated in Greece. Co-Founder George Korres believes J&J can take Korres to the next [...]
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