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The Best of BoF 2025: The Next Big Beauty Boom?

Skinified routines and premium stylers drove most of the category’s growth in 2025, as consumers became more value conscious in their hair care purchases overall.
Hair buttons at the Blazé Fall 2025 presentation.
(Faran Krentcil)

There’s been plenty of talk about the fragrance boom, but hair care was beauty’s dark horse in 2025. Sales growth of prestige hair care outpaced similarly priced perfumes in the months leading up to the holidays, according to Circana. The “skinification” of hair care routines saw people trading up for their stylers and treatments — but not their shampoos, the category’s biggest moneymaker.

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