The Beauty Standard

On August 27, Mind Candy Beauty founder Lyric Christian brought Beauty, Unfiltered featuring Billie Gene + Friends to WTF Dumbo Studio for a standing-room-only night built around the conversations beauty professionals are usually left to navigate on their own. What followed was a candid exchange on career pivots, burnout, boundaries and what it really takes to build a career that lasts.

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.

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

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

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

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

After pushback from beauty brands worried about fulfillment costs and reduced control, TikTok Shop has reversed its planned mandate requirin