The Beauty Standard

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.

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.

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

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

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

Beauty industry veteran Ylorie Taylor has spent more than two decades helping brands grow and founders navigate the ever-changing beauty lan

Karonda Cook has spent decades shaping the textured hair industry from behind the scenes. From helping bring brands like Carol’s Daughter, T

The retailer becomes one of the first U.S. specialty beauty chains to integrate directly with TikTok Shop, signaling a major shift in how co

In an exclusive interview with Black Beauty Founders, Dr. Jamal Bryant explains why the Target boycott has ended, what demands were met, and

With DEI initiatives declining in major retailers, shifts in consumer purchasing behaviors, and an increasing emphasis on direct-to-consumer

At Black Beauty Founders, we celebrate the Black entrepreneurs who are revolutionizing the beauty industry. The body care market, projected

The global beauty and personal care industry is heading into a revolutionary year in 2025, with exciting trends that every entrepreneur shou