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The 2022 Holiday Season Retail Forecasts – Shop Early

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Even though it’s only very early fall, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in many of the stores that we go. Santa must be anticipating a mad rush on limited supplies as multiple major retail chains already have their trees and trimmings out for sale. 

Typically, late summer and early fall is when all the retail holiday predictions are published. The key words that are bubbling up in this year’s cloudy crystal ball are early, inflation, recession, discounts, and the continuing battle between physical and digital retail. Timing of the economic cycle will potentially lead to more winners than losers. 

COVID has moved to the rear-view mirror and it has been replaced by financial headwinds. “In fact, concerns related to COVID have decreased significantly, from 52% (in 2021) to 16% this year, while the financial concerns have surged 153%.” It is now time for my annual summary

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Contessa Zumalt by — October 26, 2022 in Van Jones Wife
How I Shop (Beauty Edition): Crown Affair’s Dianna Cohen

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Our “How I Shop” series documents how prominent figures buy clothes. It can be a social experience, and a deeply personal one; at times, it can be impulsive and entertaining, at others, purpose-driven, a chore. The same goes for beauty — and there’s a whole lot to unpack in the way we discover, test and purchase hair, skin, makeup, fragrance and wellness products. Now, we’re delving into all of it with “How I Shop: Beauty Edition.”

When your whole career is in the consumer goods space, you’re bound to become someone who knows how to suss out the very best products on the market. 

Dianna Cohen got her start in beauty as an intern and in editorial production at Into The Gloss in 2012. “That experience opened my eyes to the power of beauty to connect us in a deeper way online,” she tells Fashionista.

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Contessa Zumalt by — August 14, 2021 in Juice Beauty
How I Shop (Beauty Edition): Golde’s Trinity Mouzon Wofford

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Trinity Mouzon Wofford.

Our “How I Shop” series documents how prominent figures buy clothes. It can be a social experience, and a deeply personal one; at times, it can be impulsive and entertaining, at others, purpose-driven, a chore. The same goes for beauty — and there’s a whole lot to unpack in the way we discover, test and purchase hair, skin, makeup, fragrance and wellness products. Now, we’re delving into all of it with “How I Shop: Beauty Edition.”

Through her company, Golde, Trinity Mouzon Wofford has made it a personal (and professional) mission to bring inclusivity and accessibility to the wellness industry. With major product and retail expansions in the past year alone — including launching at Target in January — that goal is well within reach for Wofford. But as someone so entrenched in the beauty and wellness world, how does she approach her

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 31, 2021 in Juice Beauty
The Finest Sustainable Make-up Brands To Shop In Australia

To start with matter is to start with: sustainable is an unregulated phrase. Considering the fact that getting to be ever more preferred among shoppers in current years—as properly as urgent for the planet—nailing down what “sustainability” truly is can be a challenge.

When it comes to sustainable splendor and the attractiveness business in typical, there are also a myriad of labels which can be layered on top. Phrases like “clean”, “eco-friendly”, “purely natural”, and “cruelty-no cost” are all descriptors makes can slap on without the need of acquiring always performed the do the job to certainly receive the title.

This is also not to mention the truth that several of us are wondering increasingly a lot more critically and questioning the prospective sustainability of any business whose basis is a patriarchal and Eurocentric aesthetic regular (that can damage us even as we try to determine acceptance within it).

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Contessa Zumalt by — July 21, 2021 in Rms Beauty