Tag: cosmetics

  • Word Worthy Woman: Madame C. J. Walker, bath and beauty pioneer

    I’m currently writing a post about minority women who have become prominent social figures through their cosmetics entrepreneurship. I feel I could hardly do them justice without talking first about one of America’s first female or black millionaires, an early advocate for civil rights and women’s rights, and patron of the arts. Madame C.J. Walker,…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back to our Magazine of the Week! This week’s magazine is HAPPI (Household and Personal Products Industry), a trade publication for the cosmetics industry. It was founded in 1963, and is published 10x/year by Rodman Media Company, in Ramsay, New Jersey. FIT subscribed to it in 1976-79, then picked it up again in 1986.…

  • At your finger tips

    There are a lot of aspects to fashion beyond the clothing. Accessories, grooming, skin enhancement, and gestures are all visual choices. We carry Inked magazine because tattoo art has been so important in the last 10 years. Allure covers cosmetics marketing and development. But we’ve ignored something that a lot of people have been getting…