The Beauty Standard

Black Beauty Founders can exclusively report that LINA LENNOX, the organic silk hair bonnet brand founded by Angela D. Muth, launches on Ulta.com October 1 and Target Beauty Studio October 25.

The Blueprint profiles Angela Muth, founder of LINA LENNOX, on growing up in Germany, discovering the bonnet in North Carolina, bootstrapping a premium organic silk brand and turning hair protection into a category of its own.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

After five years building My Happy Flo, Necole Kane is reassessing the economics of independent growth. Her transparency around debt, cash f

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

With $30 million in new capital secured and founder Pat McGrath retaining significant ownership, the brand moves forward under a strengthene

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