Olive & June's Sarah Gibson Tuttle on life after acquisition: You have to 'focus on the consumer obsessively'
After starting as a brick-and-mortar nail salon in Los Angeles in 2013, Olive & June closed up shop in 2020, with founder and CEO Sarah Gibson Tuttle pivoting her focus to DIY manis. By November 2024,...
18 Sep 202552min
L’Oréal tech leader Guive Balooch on what’s driving beauty innovation today, plus industry news
When it comes to innovation in the beauty industry, few wield more power and influence than Guive Balooch, L’Oréal Group’s longtime tech leader. “In the last three or four years, [we’ve seen] this i...
11 Sep 202547min
Reinventing a heritage beauty brand with Borghese COO Dawn Hilarczyk — plus, industry news
What does it take to successfully reinvent a heritage beauty brand? Industry veteran Dawn Hilarczyk is on a mission to completely transform Borghese, the 68-year-old heritage brand famous for its Ita...
4 Sep 202551min
Summer recap: The investments, strategies and revenue tumbles that defined the beauty industry
The beauty industry had an eventful summer marked by changing retailer strategies, stark revenue tumbles and a flurry of pricey acquisitions. In this special episode of The Glossy Beauty Podcast, re...
28 Aug 202545min
Target and Ulta break up, foam sunscreen is recalled — plus, what makes a successful pop-up?
Host Lexy Lebsack is joined by reporter Melissa Daniels from Glossy’s sister publication Modern Retail and co-host of the Modern Retail Podcast, to walk through this week’s biggest beauty news stories...
21 Aug 20251h 9min
What's new in beauty brick-and-mortar, why E.l.f. is getting backlash — Dr. Thomas Sterry on plastic surgery trends
co-hosts Lexy Lebsack and Emily Jensen discuss industry news of the week, including changes to beauty brick-and-mortar retail, from Nordstrom's NYC flagship's approach to Mecca's new 40,000-square-foo...
14 Aug 202547min
An insider’s guide to K-beauty’s US renaissance, plus industry news
On this week’s episode of the Glossy Beauty Podcast, co-host Lexy Lebsack interviews co-host Sara Spruch-Feiner about her recent reporting on the topic, diving into what’s fueling K-beauty’s renewed p...
7 Aug 202544min
Rare Beauty's fragrance, C-suite hires, L'Oréal earnings — and K-beauty brand Krave Beauty’s Liah Yoo
Krave Beauty isn’t your average K-Beauty brand. “[Our mission] resonates with a lot of people who are really tired of the beauty industry's narrative of ‘more is more,’” CEO and co-founder Liah Yoo t...
31 Juli 202555min
