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

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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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“It’s the next frontier”: Creating Australia’s fastest-growing hair care brand

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Hair care, previously the step-sister to makeup and skincare, is starting to take centre stage as a major beauty category. Efficacious formulas for educated and savvy consumer sit at the heart of Hairification’s strategy across its two product categories and six SKUs.

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How the beauty and sexual wellness industries became so intertwined

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When you walk into a beauty store, you expect to find a wide array of makeup powders, hair curlers, and setting sprays. In recent years, these and other sexual wellness products have been popping up on the physical and virtual shelves of many mainstream beauty retailers, such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty.

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Wellness booms and so does the share price of pharmaceutical retailers

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Wellness has become a priority for people in the wake of the pandemic as evidenced by the surge in demand for health and well-being products, which is projected to reach $5.2 The business is reportedly valued at £7 billion and its parent company Walgreens was looking for up to £10 billion, to allegedly focus on its US-based businesses.

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Let’s talk about sex: Why beauty giant Sephora is embracing sexual wellness

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Global beauty retailer Sephora is the latest retail giant to enter the sexual wellness category, following in the footsteps of Tesco, David Jones, Priceline, Walmart and others around the world. “Like in beauty, we believe in taking an integrated and holistic approach, not a compartmentalised view of sex. billion by 2026.

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Tween beauty: Are brands crossing the line?

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She loved it so much she told me she couldn’t wait and opened all of the little doors at once. She explains that she wants to keep the beautiful skin she has, well into her teens. And is it ethical for businesses to capitalise on the trend of tween beauty? The topic of discussion? Not one retailer agreed to comment. Deliberate?

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

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The global market for Black haircare products was estimated at around $9.56 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.