As the beauty business shifts towards boutique brands and upstarts, traditional titans of the industry like L'Oreal and Esteé Lauder are struggling to maintain a foothold. At the center of this cultural shift are beauty influencers, who are reaching a new wave of savvy, socially conscious consumers. For more on how they’re reshaping the landscape, we speak w ... Show More
Mar 2021
Late Night Wars | The Dawn of Tonight | 2
The late night saga begins in the uncharted wilderness of after-hours programming. In the early 1950s, an era when television broadcasting literally stops at 11:00 p.m., NBC dares to push the envelope with something called the Tonight Show. It works.It seems insane, but American ... Show More
24m 58s
Nov 2022
Beauty costs: Beauty disruptor brands
The beauty industry was once a world dominated by a handful of names, but quickly and quietly, hundreds of smaller brands have managed to make a name for themselves in an incredibly competitive sector.We speak to beauty business founders who have built their brands from scratch, ... Show More
17m 29s
Oct 2025
Industry Review: Cosmetics & Skincare
From homegrown skincare to high-end makeup, Irish brands are making serious waves both at home and abroad.Joining Bobby to discuss the sector are three of the driving forces behind that success:Nicola Connelly from Nunaia Niamh Ryan, Co-Founder of Ella & Jo Amy Cahill, Owner of O ... Show More
20m 11s
Oct 2025
Can Gen-Z Beauty Brands Grow Up?
Brands like Bubble, Starface and Byoma rode TikTok-native aesthetics to win Gen-Z hearts and Sephora shelf space with plush mascots, playful stickers and sensorial jelly textures. Founders close in age to their audience moved fast, crowd-sourced ideas and mastered algorithms. Now ... Show More
23m 5s
Nov 2021
EP82. The beauty industry has a problem with transparency
<p>Welcome to this Green Beauty Opinion in which Formula Botanica CEO Lorraine Dallmeier shares her main takeouts from the previous episode interviewing Jessi Baker, MBE, Founder and CEO, of Provenance, a software solution helping brands build trust and enabling change through tr ... Show More
6m 17s
<p><em>BoF’s Imran Amed sits down with Priya Rao, executive editor of The Business of Beauty, to go inside the findings of our new report ‘The State of Fashion: Beauty.’</em></p><br><p><strong>Background</strong>:</p><br><p>The global beauty industry is booming. </p><br><p>“ ... Show More