The Beauty Standard

By day, Dujon Smith is a corporate venture capitalist at Accenture. But one Instagram DM turned his sun care brand, My Block Skin, into the first Black-owned sun care brand in Boots' 175-year history. Now, with a patent-pending clear mineral SPF, he's coming for the whole category.

Voices to Know profiles Larry Stansbury, the beauty and lifestyle writer turned content creator whose bylines run in Vogue, Elle and Essence. A Black Beauty Founders feature on his journey from a $500 move to New York to becoming one of the industry's most trusted voices, told through his own words.

Funmi Monet turned a lifelong love of fragrance into Influxious.

Bask & Lather and Canvas Beauty accounted for nearly $50 million of the $512.8 million generated by the platform’s 25 top-selling indie brands. Both founders have appeared on the cover of Black Beauty Founders.

At 29, Darrell Spencer has built Crowned Skin into an eight-figure men’s grooming brand, climbed to No. 2 in men’s personal care on TikTok Shop, and walked away from Shark Tank with a deal. Now, BBF’s first male cover star is expanding the category with fragrance-led rituals designed to make men feel confident, magnetic, and seen.

She grew her natural hair to waist length. Twice. But Rosemarie Cunningham’s platform is about far more than impressive length. Through thoughtful education, honest product reviews, and evidence-based hair care, she’s become one of the most trusted voices in the textured hair space. In this edition of BBF Creators to Watch, she shares the lessons, routines, and perspective behind the content that’s helping thousands of women rethink their hair journeys.

Beauty brands are built every day. Enduring businesses are built differently. In this exclusive Black Beauty Founders interview, Lyric Christian, Founder and CEO of Mind Candy Beauty, shares how authenticity, community, and bold decision making have shaped her journey as a founder and the vision behind her growing brand.

Two-time Emmy winner Julie Jules went from the audience of The Real to the stage that show built—and now shapes artistry and events at e.l.f. Beauty. She talks Haitian roots, the pivot from freelance artist to leader, and why real influence lives behind the scenes.

AFROTECH journalist Samantha Dorisca on 3,000+ stories, purpose over validation, and why a single headline can change a founder's trajectory.

National Sunscreen Day with Shontay Lundy and Black Girl Sunscreen

She spent decades making us feel seen. Now Tia Mowry is doing something even braver — choosing herself. The actress turned founder opens up about healing, motherhood, and building 4U by Tia from the ground up.

Years later, with bylines in ESSENCE, HuffPost, and HelloBeautiful — and a resume that reads like a blueprint for modern beauty journalism — Duffs has built exactly the career she envisioned. But her work goes beyond editorial. She is a strategist, an advocate, and a cultural archivist, someone who understands that the stories we tell about Black beauty are, at their core, stories about power. "I was drawn to journalism by my love of writing and a curiosity about people's 'wh

Stormi Steele shares how she built Canvas Beauty into a multi-million dollar brand, generating over $1 million in a single TikTok Shop live

The Doux secures minority investment from VMG Partners, marking its next phase of growth.

At 24, Isan Elba is building a new model for beauty, turning excess into access through Beauty Access and Beauty Forward.

Body care is no longer basic. It’s evolving into a high-performance, wellness-driven category redefining beauty.

April Showers turned vision into a nationally licensed brand. But the real story goes far beyond retail.

For decades, sunscreen sat on store shelves as a product designed with someone else in mind. The marketing showed beach vacations and sunburn prevention. The formulas often left behind a white cast. And for many Black consumers, the category felt irrelevant, if not entirely dismissive of their skin. For millions of people with melanated skin, sunscreen wasn’t just inconvenient. It was something the industry had never truly considered. Shontay Lundy noticed the gap before the

the wellness industry shifts toward personalized, solution-driven supplements, Anna Palomino is helping lead that change at Black Girl Vita

Olivia Hancock is redefining what visibility looks like in beauty. As Senior Beauty Editor at Byrdie and founder of The Hue Report, she has