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  • Essie launches wild nudes collection

    NEW YORK — Nail polish company essie has unveiled its latest line of colors. Essie’s wild nudes collection include nine colors that range from light tan to a shadowy blue.

    The collection contains neutral sheer and saturated cream nail colors that the company says include a nude polish for every skin tone. The line includes:

  • Essie partners with bridal designer on gel couture bridal collection

    NEW YORK — Essie is teaming up with couture bridal designer Monique Lhuillier on its essie gel couture bridal collection. The collection adds to the company’s two-step gel manicure product line, which it launched last year, and is essie’s first collaboration with a bridal designer. 
     

  • Essie launches treat, love and color line

    NEW YORK — Essie on Wednesday introduced its new line of products that combine color and nail care. Essie treat, love & color brings together its sheer nail color and such nourishing ingredients as infused collagen and camellia leaf extracts. 
     

  • Ulta’s growth to continue with 100 stores in 2017

    There is no denying it: Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance is on a roll.
     
    The retailer will open 100 stores this year, including its first-ever location in Manhattan.
     
    Shares of Ulta rose 38% last year, about four times higher than the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s gain, Bloomberg reported, and its annual revenue has quadrupled to $3.9 billion since it went public 10 years ago.
     

  • Beauty app-splosion

    Beauty brands are rushing to add apps as a ploy to allow shoppers to experiment with beauty more often, while also eliminating the need for consumers to return products because of disappointment in shades. If a brand doesn’t have an app now, it probably will this year.

    (To view the full Beauty Trends Report, click here.)

    L’Oréal kicked off the trend two years ago with Makeup Genius, but many others have been quick on its heels.

  • Up and coming: Beauty formats — new and old — to continue expansion in 2017

    Rather than watch the nail category continue to evaporate, retailers and brands are bonding together with innovative launches and impactful in-store presentations.

    (To view the full Beauty Trends Report, click here.)

    For the 52-week period ended Oct. 30, nail color sales were down 11.4% across multi-outlets, according to IRI. That’s prompting action.

  • These beauty products may be flying off shelves this winter

    NBC's Today show spoke with some of Hollywood's top celebrity beauty experts to get the scoop on the best drug store beauty products to help battle the winter elements.

    The network also highlighted the beauty products in one of its beauty segments and in a feature online.

    The majority of the products can be found at drug and mass retailers.

    To see the list, click here.

     

     

  • Priyanka Chopra is the new ambassador of this beauty brand

    CINCINNATI — Actress, film producer and philanthropist Priyanka Chopra is joining a roster of women around the globe as Pantene’s newest Global Brand Ambassador.

    Chopra will be the face of Pantene’s new campaign celebrating the Brand’s biggest shampoo launch in 30 years: Pantene Pro-V’s new Shampoo formulas that go beyond washing to fuel hair from within. Pantene’s new shampoos claim to fuel hair with the nutrients it needs to be strong from the core to endure the stressors it faces day in and day out.

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