Beauty and Style at Your Doorstep
Birchbox gives those who are new to the sphere of beauty the opportunity to try out different products.
October 17, 2016
Shopping is getting easier by the minute. There’s no need to even step foot outside to try on clothes or refill your favorite perfume. Everything is a mouse click away, with free shipping to boot.
A classic, but tried and true. Birchbox was founded in 2010 as a beauty subscription service that sends four to five sample beauty products to your door for $10 per month. Since 2010, it has come to sell the full-size versions of the products in its boxes online and opened its first brick-and-mortar store in SoHo. On its site, you can discover the latest new beauty brands and trends.
Looking for under-the-radar designers? Of a Kind has got you covered. It constantly selects new and upcoming designers and features their products and stories on its website.
This brand is all about transparency — in both its products and its enterprise. On their site, new designers launch their collections and host a 19-day pre-sale. The designers then manufacture all the presale products and ship them out to consumers. If you miss the presale, no worries. You can still buy after the presale but at retail price.
Glossier believes skincare comes before makeup and stands for perfect, glowy, dewy skin. All of its products promise to deliver a fresh, unwithered glow while improving the skin. The simple packaging keeps all the focus on the product inside.
Need a men’s dress shirt with the perfect fit? Here’s your new favorite place. All of Stantt’s shirts are tailored to fit you just right and are made of 100 percent Egyptian cotton. It has more than 75 sizes to get you your perfect fit and put-together look.
Get connected to hip fashion in one platform. COOLS acts as the middleman between the consumer and department stores. The team at COOLS has compiled all the latest pieces in one place and at the best price. Yeah, I know, pretty cool.
Always wanted your own personal stylist? Keaton Row has you fill out a fashion profile and connects you to a personal stylist. The personal stylist curates a portfolio of five to seven looks with 15 to 20 pieces. The best part? Your style expert is always with you. If you download its app, you can constantly be connected to your style expert whenever you need on-the-spot personal shopping recommendations. And it ensures there’s never any pressure to buy.
Two words: sustainable fashion. Modavanti, founded in Brooklyn, prides itself on bringing its customers trendy and timeless eco-friendly fashion pieces. It offers both women’s and men’s clothing, along with beauty products and home decor that live up to the same standard.
A version of this article appeared in the Monday, Oct. 17 print edition. Email Pamela Jew at [email protected].
