NPD Forecast: Makeup Highs, Millennials Should Stay Covered
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Market research firm NPD Group predicts that makeup will continue to dominate the prestige beauty market in 2017, reflecting “the selfie-obsessed, image-driven, influencer-made culture of our time.”
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