The Glossy Beauty Podcast

Mary van Praag doubled Milani Cosmetics annual sales to $250 million in five years. Now she’s ready to double them again. 

Helmed for the past six years by veteran beauty executive Mary van Praag, 25-year-old mass beauty mainstay Milani Cosmetics is in the midst of meteoric growth. In today’s

How Lorne Lucree used a beauty playbook to disrupt the allergy aisle with Wizard Wellness

CPG disruptors have entered just about every legacy category over the past few years in hopes of capturing bored consumers looking for more interesting everyday products.

Is makeup back? Celeb makeup artist Jamie Greenberg unpacks what’s next

There’s an interesting tension happening in the beauty industry today around makeup.  Last year, consumer beauty publications and industry executives heralded 2026 as th

Why Midi Health is expanding into 'hormone-informed skin care' with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kathleen Jordan, MD

Midi Health is betting on topical skin care and body care as it diversifies its telehealth offerings to capture more women. “Women in midlife go through amazing changes

The ‘ins and outs’ of branded events with Bilal Kaiser

Behind every great in-person beauty or wellness event is an invisible team of insiders that has engineered the gathering for maximum impact.  Bilal Kaiser, the founder a

How awards show beauty partnerships between artists, brands and celebs come together, with PRTNRS’ Marissa Alfe and Lauren FitzGerald

Have you ever wondered how awards show beauty partnerships come together to create big, splashy red carpet moments that seem to reverberate across social media for weeks

How Ulta Beauty is reaching Gen Zalpha teen boys through first men’s masstige fragrance launch

Teen boys have become an increasingly important consumer demographic over the past few years thanks, primarily, to their insatiable appetite for fragrance.  This include

Tower 28 spent $200k on an interactive billboard. Was it worth it?

As competition in the beauty industry heats up, leaders are looking for new ways to stand out.  “I've worked in beauty for 24 years now, and I don't think I've ever seen

Gregg Renfrew is courting Gen Z with Beecee, but do young people care about clean beauty?

The beauty industry disruptor that brought clean beauty into the mainstream is back with a shiny new brand concept.  Gregg Renfrew, the entrepreneur behind Beautycounter

What makes a successful pop-up? (RERUN)

To discuss what makes a successful retail pop-up, Glossy is joined by three powerhouse executives in today’s roundtable episode: Jacquelin Barrett, Patrick Ta Beauty svp

How Supergoop CMO Lauren Weinberg is tackling Amazon and TikTokShop amid channel mix expansion

It’s tough to compete with Supergoop, the sunscreen startup that entered the market in 2006 and quickly became the industry darling before selling to private equity firm

How Nutrafol CEO Cindy Gustafson is reaching men, growing retention with tech and plotting expansion

Cindy Gustafson has checked off a laundry list of accomplishments during her first 18 months as CEO of Nutrafol.  This includes an app launch designed to improve retenti

Inside Revlon’s comeback bet on fragrance with president Amber Garrison

How execs from Ulta Beauty, Tarte and Beekman 1802 are implementing AI into workflows

How are beauty and wellness business leaders actually using AI today?  That was the question posed to three longtime industry executives on stage during Glossy’s annual

UTA's Daniel Landver knows what makes an influencer brand work

Daniel Landver is the head of UTA's creators product group — a role most people may not even realize exists. While his job keeps him behind the scenes, Landver is behind

Is agentic shopping the next big thing in beauty? Sephora and Ulta are betting yes

Artificial intelligence is the undisputed main character of 2026, showing up everywhere from the wedding industry to perfume creation. But even while AI’s place in societ

L'Oréal-owned Lancôme is leveraging longevity in prestige skin care under veteran exec Vania Lacascade

Over the past three years, L'Oréal Group has been quietly assembling the perfect team, ingredient, product and marketing rollout for its next big skin-care category: long

Amazon wants to be a beauty powerhouse. Is a big beauty sale the answer?

On Sunday, Amazon wrapped up its fourth-annual Summer Beauty Event. Over two weeks, Amazon tempted shoppers with discounts of up to 50% on everything from makeup to vitam

Why are people flying to Korea to inject salmon sperm in their faces?

What is PDRN? You've probably seen the four letters on serum bottles, sheet masks and even lip balms — or heard them on TikTok. PDRN stands for polydeoxyribonucleotide a

L’Oréal's product placement strategy for "The Devil Wears Prada 2" with exec Laura Branik

L’Oréal Paris is betting on “The Devil Wears Prada 2” through an official partnership that spans TV ads, OOH advertising, social campaigns, consumer eventing and product