Cosmetic Formulation & Beauty Branding Journal

Before Nicola Kilner was the CEO of a billion-dollar beauty industry empire, she was a young girl in Nottingham, a silent witness to the domestic liturgy of the vanity table. There was a specific, sensory cadence to her mother’s routine: the rhythmic click of a gold L’Oréal Elnett can, the tactile heat of rollers, and the meditative application of Clinique’s three-step. It was the quiet precision of a woman assembling herself for the world. It was beautiful. It was also, as Kilner would eventually realize, a performance staged on a foundation of incomplete information. The Great Asymmetry For decades, the continue reading ->