
Skin-First Summer at Sephora
Sephora's Sephoria festival dedicated a whole floor to 'skin-as-makeup' brands, with Glossier, Rhode and Merit hosting no-mirror application booths.
The dewy, skin-first look Glossier helped define a decade ago is resurfacing, this time as a reaction to heavy contouring and filtered perfection rather than as a debut. For a brand that already owns this territory, the opportunity isn't discovery, it's reclaiming it with an audience too young to remember the original wave.

Check out the latest events people in the No-Makeup Makeup Community have been up to in the last 6 months.

Sephora's Sephoria festival dedicated a whole floor to 'skin-as-makeup' brands, with Glossier, Rhode and Merit hosting no-mirror application booths.

Rhode's pop-up in Brooklyn drew 4-hour lines and 38M TikTok views under #glazedskin, cementing dewy minimalism as the summer default.

Creators shifted from 15-step routines to 3-product 'skin diets,' racking up 1.2B views and driving a 22% spike in tinted-moisturizer sales.
French makeup artist and former Chanel/Byredo creative director, known as one of the originators of the modern 'no-makeup makeup' look and signature French-girl minimalism.
Beauty creator who built a following on soft-glam, skin-focused, natural tutorials that blend skincare with minimal makeup.

Celebrity makeup artist whose brand Westman Atelier is built entirely around the skin-like, 'your skin but better' no-makeup aesthetic.


Glowy Super Gel is the easiest way to glow and your forever first step under makeup for an effortless radiance.

Balm, gloss and shimmer in one swipe — the cushiony shine that keeps showing up on FYPs.
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