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How Beauty Brands Can Take Advantage of TikTok Trends

The app, known for tutorials, hacks, dupes and drama, has become a major beauty destination. Thinking big picture and focusing on education can help brands keep up with a rapid trend cycle.
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TikTok trends. (BoF Collage, TikTok: @gillianxgrace, @meredithduxbury, @_sophmartine, @aysha_harun, @hyram, @kendrathemom_)

When Futurewise — a new beauty brand from the founders of Starface and Plus — launches Wednesday, its TikTok-addicted customers will already be familiar with “slugging,” the skin care technique that inspired the brand’s initial slate of products.

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Joan Kennedy
Joan Kennedy

Joan Kennedy is Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers beauty and marketing.

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