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⏰ Regular pricing ends May 22. Carol Hamilton reflects on being named BeautyMatter’s 2023 Person of the Year. The BeautyMatter Awards celebrate the leaders, brands, and ideas driving beauty and wellness forward. 👉 beautymatter.visitlink.me/rC1lYr

🌏 Join BeautyMatter for China’s Comeback: What it Means for Global Beauty, a strategic conversation unpacking the realities, risks, and opportunities shaping China’s next chapter. 🗓 Thursday, May 21 ⏰ 2:00pm ET 👉 Register here: beautymatter.visitlink.me/geyecJ

🧴 No Fluff, No Filters: Christophe Laudamiel’s Olfactory Countermovement Christophe Laudamiel revisits Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Baccarat Rouge 540 and Guerlain’s Shalimar, questioning reformulation, AI, and luxury fragrance narratives. Read more: beautymatter.com/articles/naked…

🧴 Smells Familiar: Inside BORNTOSTANDOUT’S Dupe Battle When imitation moves from product to full brand identity, who owns the narrative? Read more: beautymatter.com/articles/bornt… #FragranceIndustry #BeautyBusiness #BrandStrategy

⭐ Building Lean High Performing Teams At the BeautyMatter MBA Program, Scott Oshry, President of Modernity, will break down what it takes to build lean, high-performing teams designed for long-term growth. 🎟️ Join the conversation and be in the room: beautymatter.visitlink.me/y0-_QM

⚙️ Beauty’s Race to Build the AI-Powered Factory of the Future As demand cycles compress, beauty manufacturers are investing in AI-powered robotics and digital twin technology to keep pace. Read more: beautymatter.com/articles/beaut…

🛍️ Beauty Retail Watch: Who Launched Where in April 2026 From mass to prestige, beauty, wellness, and healthcare are increasingly converging, with brands balancing accessibility and innovation to meet shifting consumer expectations. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/s_-h44

💊 Healthy Extracts Acquires Sommer Ray’s Imaraïs Beauty Healthy Extracts, an emerging nutraceutical technology and precision-dose delivery company, acquired Imaraïs Beauty. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/NCqDxv #BeautyBusiness #Wellness #Skincare #MandA #Innovation

🎨 Precision Over Hype: The K-Beauty Brand Building a Global Artistry Business Founded by legendary makeup artist Jung Saem Mool, the brand has built its global presence around complexion artistry and skin expression. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/h4zqgj

🛍️ The Top 10 Trending Legacy Beauty Brands on Amazon rom Clinique to Lancôme, legacy brands are finding new growth where discovery meets purchase. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/tQAXkI

Here's what caught our editorial team's attention this week: BeautyMatter's Olivia Condell and Sophie Pitt explores this week's launches: beautymatter.visitlink.me/S_m-Lz #BeautyIndustry #ProductLaunch #EmergingBrands #NewInBeauty #NowTrending

⚖️ Ownership Versus Acquisition: When a Name Stops Belonging to You In beauty, a founder’s name can become a trademark asset once commercialized, transferable, restrictable, and often sold at exit. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/M44fIp

💇‍♀️ Blow-Dry, but Make It Scalable: L’Oréal’s Play for the Pro Economy Stylists are no longer a sales channel. They're the growth engine. At L’Oréal, the shift is clear: the stylist is an upstream growth multiplier. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/gowORA

✈️ Beauty Under Pressure—But Powers Heinemann to €4.7 Billion in 2025 At Gebr. Heinemann, value and luxury are outperforming while the middle continues to lag, forcing a rethink on assortment and strategy. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/BTsUvW

🇰🇷 EXCLUSIVE: K-Beauty Showdown: Amorepacific CEO Reveals Steady Strategy Rather than chasing rapid product cycles, the company is doubling down on scale and long-term strategy, while adapting lessons from indie brands to stay competitive. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/SBIJSh

🌏 Reminder: China’s Comeback: What it Means for Global Beauty Join BeautyMatter for a strategic conversation unpacking the signals shaping China’s next chapter and what they mean for global beauty brands. 🗓 Thursday, May 21, 2:00pm ET Register here: beautymatter.visitlink.me/8IEXfI

🎨 Blush Rush: Inside the Global Makeup Survey Reframing Beauty as Art “Today, makeup feels less about transformation and more about expression, creation, and artistic instinct,” says featured artist Julie Cusson in Phaidon’s Blush. Read more: beautymatter.com/articles/phaid…

📊 US Beauty Market Delivers Steady First-Quarter Growth For the first time in five years, mass and prestige beauty are growing at nearly the same rate, signaling a more balanced competitive landscape. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/ByD86R

💼 Q1 2026: A Strong Start for Beauty Dealmaking Q1 2026 signals a shift, with the BeautyMatter Deal Index tracking 83 deals in the first quarter, up over 40% year over year, and growth investments more than doubling. Read more: beautymatter.visitlink.me/G4zNMg #BeautyBusiness #MandA

📊 Beauty Deals: Investment + M&A Transactions Q1 2026 The 171-page Beauty Deals: Investment + M&A Transactions Q1 2026 report breaks down the signals shaping the next phase of beauty and wellness deal flow. 👉 Purchase the report now: beautymatter.visitlink.me/8fPx0a