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Ellen Thomas

Beauty Editor, Mass Market

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Elemis Maps U.S. Growth

The upscale British skin-care brand is targeting Millennials with its lower-priced Superfood product range.

Cover Girl Teams With Allure on YouTube Series

The Allure Incubator, a six-episode series, will identify the next member of the Cover Girl Collective, the…

Kate Somerville Enters the U.K., China and Ulta Beauty

The Unilever-owned brand is exiting Neiman Marcus doors to focus on new distribution channels.

Amorepacific Group Broadens U.S. Portfolio With Mamonde Launch at Ulta Beauty

The floral-inspired line is the fourth of Amorepacific's "global champion brands" to enter the U.S.

Captain Blankenship to Unveil Lower-Priced Line at Target

Unisex, plant-based skin and hair brand Sailor will enter almost all Target doors.

Drew Barrymore’s Flower Beauty Blooms in Ulta

The retailer will be Flower's second distribution partner after Wal-Mart.

Stat Department: The Kardashian Effect

Call it a Kim Kardashian-inspired makeover: makeup in both the mass and prestige markets has seen sales of…

Launch Pad: Mass Market Makeover

As mass retailers reconfigure planograms this month, an unprecedented slew of newness and innovation is…

RMS Beauty Expands Into Supplements With Free People

A probiotic and digestive enzymes will be launched at Free People this month.

EXCLUSIVE: Winona Ryder Named L’Oréal Paris Brand Ambassador

The Nineties-era style icon and actress will star in the brand's "Comeback" campaign for its relaunched U.S…

What to Watch: Mass Makeup Gets a Makeover

Legacy brands like Cover Girl and Almay are reinventing themselves in the face of heightened competition from…

For Straight Males, Body Contouring Is the Gateway to Botox

Men are visiting cosmetic dermatologists to rid themselves of love handles — and discovering Botox along the…

What to Watch: Retailers Reinvent the Beauty Floor

The renovated beauty floor at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship is expected to open in 2018, while specialty…

Wet ‘n’ Wild’s Fast-Paced Growth Trajectory

The Markwins-owned brand is rolling out to two-thirds of Ulta doors in February.

Korres Gets 50 Million Euro Investment

The cash infusion comes from a Morgan Stanley-backed private equity firm and a Chinese cosmetics distributor…