Brands and retailers need to evolve their digital strategies to match these new needs of consumers, which means putting an emphasis on KPIs like engagement and time spent in order to drive conversion and brand loyalty,” Lerner states. To date, over 250 virtual stores have been created, visited by over 110 million shoppers. Furthermore, these digital spaces can also be published to other platforms such as Roblox, with the AVA by Obsess 3D editing technology making management of the virtual storefront easy regardless of design expertise level. The experiential e-commerce platforms allow brands and retailers to create immersive, branded virtual stores on their websites, with clients including Charlotte Tilbury, Armani Beauty, Maybelline, Laura Mercier, Neostrata, and Olaplex. The company was founded in 2017 by Neha Singh, a former software engineer at Google and Head of Product at Vogue, who saw a difficulty in translating the interactive nature of physical retail environments into the physical space.
A breakthrough oil-hydrator hybrid built to prevent dry, dehydrated skin. Eleanor Vousden is the beauty editor of Who What Wear UK. She was previously deputy editor at Hairdressers Journal, health writer at Woman & Home and junior beauty editor at beauty website Powder. She has also contributed to Wallpaper and Elle Collections with written and styling work.
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Participants in the study rated Asian and Latina women as more attractive than White and Black women, and it was found that Asian and Latina women had more of the attributes that were considered attractive for women. Exposure to Western media did not influence or improve the Asian men’s ratings of White women. A feature of beautiful women which has been explored by researchers is a waist–hip ratio of approximately 0.70. As of 2004, physiologists had shown that women with hourglass figures were more fertile than other women because of higher levels of certain female hormones, a fact that may subconsciously condition males choosing mates.
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