The Beauty Standard

With GloVerse, the Grammy-nominated artist is turning the hardest part of life on the road into a beauty-tech company built to get the professionals behind the look discovered, booked and paid.

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.

Funmi Monet turned a lifelong love of fragrance into Influxious.

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.

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.

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

COVER STORY How Shontay Lundy turned Black Girl Sunscreen into a nationally stocked brand at Target, Ulta, CVS and Walgreens, and reshaped SPF for melanin-rich skin. 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

Tisha Thompson didn’t wait for perfect timing. After years of learning the business from the inside, she took a leap that most founders woul

Shaina Rainford does not fit the beauty founder archetype the industry likes to reward. She didn’t raise venture capital. She didn’t chase celebrity endorsements. She didn’t rush into national retail to validate the brand. And yet, in just over five years, she built Bask & Lather into a nine-figure business, largely on her own terms.

Cynthia Bailey has always been iconic, but this chapter is different. On the December 2025 cover of Black Beauty Founders, the model, beauty founder, and wellness advocate opens up about Glowissima, CB Vior, aging with intention, motherhood, and why beauty is a lifestyle, not a moment.