[podcast] Indie Beauty Expo Founders on Success, Stress and Originality (Part 1)

Oct 17th, 2017

Jeb Gleason-Allured

Jillian Wright and Nader Naeymi-Rad, co-founders of the Indie Beauty Expo, have big plans for their event in 2018 and 2019, and a positive outlook for the future of beauty startups and small, unique brands.

Jillian Wright and Nader Naeymi-Rad, co-founders of the Indie Beauty Expo, have big plans for their event in 2018 and 2019, and a positive outlook for the future of beauty startups and small, unique brands.

Indie beauty brand founders must be comfortable being uncomfortable seven days a week. In the first part of this two-part episode of The Business of Beautiful, Jillian Wright and Nader Naeymi-Rad, co-founders of the Indie Beauty Expo, discuss founder grit and this year's New York event, in addition to:

Savvy indie brands
Redefining success
Indie beauty's ascension
The power of originality

Read our exclusive coverage of unique indie brands: The Beauty of Food.

Consumer expectations have surged for hair care and repair products, driven by concerns over compromised hair and scalp health, hair loss and more.

K18's Chief Science Officer Talks Emerging Hair Health Innovation

Consumer expectations have surged for hair care and repair products, driven by concerns over compromised hair and scalp health, hair loss and more.

Staying Ahead of the Trends: TaikiUSA Bridges Science & Beauty

Staying Ahead of the Trends: TaikiUSA Bridges Science & Beauty

TaikiUSA offers access to a vast assortment of validated base formulas, turnkey solutions, and beauty tools so you can go to market quickly- with custom, science-backed products- including masks, patches, beauty tools and waterless solutions.

Consumers increasingly demand proof of efficacy; here's what that means for beauty brands.

Elevated Efficacy: Science-driven, Clinically Proven Beauty

Symrise's Jennifer King will discuss how consumers are increasingly seeking personal care products that not only make them look and feel good but also have scientific evidence to support their claims.

Beauty Accelerate will tap into emerging ingredients and claims, with a focus on efficacy and substantiation.

💧Beauty Ingredients & Claims in the Spotlight: Experts Speak Out🧪

Validated Claim Support will be on hand to assist brands in making their marketing claims stick. The clinical research company helps to back marketing claims through scientific data collection and custom tailored studies.

To put the trends and market/consumer insights presented at Beauty Accelerate into action, the event is hosting a boutique exhibition of contract manufacturers, as well as packaging and ingredient specialists.

🏭🧴💄Find Your New Contract/Turnkey Manufacturing Partner

Beauty Accelerate attendees will have an opportunity to scope out concepts from key manufacturers and to speak directly with producers to identify ideal collaborative partnerships.

The company's in vivo experiments reportedly revealed that the administration of large-size HA into the superficial skin resulted in a substantial increase in both collagen deposition and the proliferation of skin cells down into the dermis.

New Skin Rejuvenation Tech Coming to Beauty Accelerate Los Angeles

Mineed Technology has developed detachable microneedles (DMNs) that can enable the rapid self-administration of HA filler into the skin in 30 seconds.

The emerging science of the microbiome is still in its infancy, yet it is the driving force behind a transformative scientific revolution in beauty and beyond. What lies ahead will have broad implications for scientists, marketing and R&D professionals, academic institutions, our health, and perhaps our survival.

Coming Soon: 'Evolutionary Biology & the Future of Skin Microbiome Innovation'

Speaker Larry Weiss, M.D., is CEO and founder of Weiss Bioscience, Inc., a San Francisco-based microbiome biotechnology company and manufacturer of Symbiome skin care.

The Benchmarking Company's Denise Herich will present insights from exclusive consumer surveys, highlighting key opportunities for brands to tap for future innovation and marketing.

K18 & The Benchmarking Co. Decode the Hair Health Revolution at Beauty Accelerate

This session will feature fresh shopper insights into hair wellness, as well as insights from one of the hottest brands of the last few years.

Selfmade Founder Brings 'Mind-Beauty Axis' to Beauty Accelerate

By tapping the emerging field of psychodermatology and leveraging ingestible and neurocosmetic product formats, today’s brands have an opportunity to deliver holistic, multidimensional benefits that address the emotional and aesthetic needs of consumers.

Rie Maiden, VP of marketing and e-commerce, Credo Beauty, and Jennifer Famiano, an executive director and beauty industry analyst at Circana, will discuss the state of beauty retail and provide insights for brands seeking retail success.

Circana and Credo: Beauty Retail 2024-2025 @ Beauty Accelerate

Notably, beauty was one of the few discretionary consumer product categories to grow in 2023, pointing to resilient shopper demand, even amid inflation concerns.

An essentialist approach to beauty innovation can address consumers' desire to focus on what is truly necessary for their wellness goals.

Goop, Dermalogica & Dr. Elsa Jungman Speak out on 'New Minimalism in Beauty'

Mintel's 2024 Sophisticated Simplicity trend reflects rising demands for transparency in the service of ensuring that products are effective and that ingredients are both necessary and safe.