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On TikTok Shop, Any Beauty Product Can Be a Viral Star

The platform’s freewheeling approach to e-commerce has opened the floodgates for established labels, grey-market sellers and influencers to entice beauty shoppers to buy. But with little oversight over fake product listings, brands must negotiate how much control they want to give over to the app.
TikTok Shop listings for a dupe of Dior Beauty's lip oil, an unauthorized third-party seller of Olaplex's bonding oil and beauty listings on Revolve's TikTok shop.
TikTok Shop beauty products going viral range from Dior lip oil dupes and unauthorised Olaplex listings to items sold in Revolve's official store. (TikTok)

TikTok has become a beauty shopper’s playground.

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Can TikTok’s Addictive Algorithm Get US Shoppers Buying?

The company, which rolled out its Shop feature to all US users this week, is banking on its powerful algorithm to help it succeed where Instagram and others have failed by delivering a constant stream of products along with its targeted content into users’ feeds.

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Liz Flora
Liz Flora

Liz Flora is a Beauty Correspondent at Business of Fashion. She is based in Los Angeles and covers beauty and wellness.

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