Kevin.Murphy USA Inc. has named Lisa Marx President of its North American Business Unit, as well as a member of the Kevin.Murphy Executive Committee, effective immediately. Most recently, Lisa served as the company’s Executive Vice President of North America.

Tracee Ellis Ross’s company Pattern Beauty is expanding its global reach with availability in the U.K. beauty retailer Boots beginning June 29. Since its launch in 2019, Pattern Beauty’s mission has been to serve the needs of those with curly, coily, and tight-textured hair, as well as to celebrate the natural beauty of its multi-cultural community. Today Pattern is available in Canada as well as in U.S. retailers Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Walmart, Target, and patternbeauty.com.

Louis Licari, one of the world’s premier hair colorists, is launching a hair and skin care line, as well as a new salon planned for Tokyo. Spanning his decades-long career in the salon industry, Louis—known as the King of Color—has maintained his iconic status by paying close attention to trends and by providing excellent customer service. CEW Beauty News spoke with Louis, a 2022 Beauty Creators Awards ambassador, to discuss his post-Covid salon experience and his new business ventures.

Makeup and skin care service destination, Blushington, is expanding into new categories, namely hair services. Launching September 9 are blowouts and dry styling, alongside its makeup and skin care services, to be available at Blushington’s new Columbus Circle flagship in Manhattan.

Everyone’s beauty routine is an extremely personal process, one that is becoming more customized with the rise of the personalized beauty market. According to Research and Markets, the personalized beauty market is expected to grow from $29.25 billion in 2021 to $37.72 billion in 2022 at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.87 percent. The market is expected to reach $51.64 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 12.08 percent. A personalization concept can range from a company questionnaire determining a consumer’s individual needs and tailoring products according to the gathered info, to scanning a consumer’s hair type and analyzing strands to determine a customized hair product set. Beauty News approached three personalized beauty brands, including Proven Skincare, Function of Beauty, and newly-launched The Hair Lab, to explore why this specific section of the beauty market is expanding so quickly.

August marks National Black Business Month, a recognition that was created in 2004 by historian John William Templeton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan to highlight and uplift millions of Black-owned businesses across the nation. Here, Beauty News presents a selection of Black-owned beauty brands making their mark in the world of beauty.

Clean hair care brand Adwoa Beauty has secured a $4 million investment from Pendulum, an inclusive and strategic growth investing and advisory platform that seeks to accelerate business opportunities for founders and leaders of color. Since Julian Addo, Adwoa Beauty’s founder and 2022 Beauty Cosmetics Award Ambassador, launched the brand in 2017 with $80,000 of her own capital, this round of funding marks the brand’s first outside investment.

BYROE skin care was founded in 2019 as a clean, salad-inspired line. Since its launch, founder Amy Roe has grown the brand into several distribution points all while navigating the challenges COVID presented to small, independent brands. Here, CEW caught up with Amy to discuss how she grew her brand over the past several years, what salad-inspired skin care actually means, and an exclusive peek into BYROE’s late summer product launch.

Recently, makeup industry legend Toni Ko hosted a dinner at La Mercerie in Soho to celebrate Jason Wu Beauty’s new Tinted Moisturizer Meets CC Cream. The fashion designer’s brand sits within Toni’s brand incubator Bespoke Beauty Brands, one of four she has helped nurture and deliver to the masses since she founded it in 2019. Here, Beauty News dishes on Toni’s career after creating, operating, and selling NYX Cosmetics to L’Oréal in 2014, the art of selecting brands for her incubator, and delivering accessible beauty.