About Us

B. Kim Taylor has been an editor/writer for the New Yorker's Culture Studio, Bustle, Time Inc.'s Strategic Communications, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Newsweek International, and other media. She was a columnist for Gotham magazine and the NCI chain, contributed to The Yale Press Encyclopedia of NYC, taught advertising copywriting, delivered corporate seminars on strategic copy across all platforms to Random House/Crown, the Media Brix agency, Mediabistro, etc. and co-founded The Copy Lab NYC and The Pop Bag NYC. She garnered a screenwriting honorable mention award at the Tribeca Film Festival, and has an M.A. in media studies. She loves to travel, is married with two sons, and thinks NYC is one of the most vibrant and fun places in the world.

A long time electronics geek, Chris has been working with computers at most all levels for nearly 40 years. His background includes being a network administrator for two major associations and one law firm. He is a self-taught programmer, while also handling nearly all aspects of the computer world, from PC builds to consulting with clients, large and small, to being a true hobbyist of the craft.

An online user for over 35 years, he coded his first web site in 1997. In 2002, he started his web design site, Charlemagne Web Designs due to his love of learning new things and felt that this was to be his next big step in his life.

In 2003, he co-founded the first online beauty magazine, Beauty News NYC, with the famed jewelry designer Kimberly McDonald. He has guided the site through numerous iterations, layouts, platform and site migrations, as well as interacting with the many numerous and talented writers the site has featured over the past 20+ years.

Among his other clients over the years are/were CaFleureBon – A top five global fragrance site, famed jewelry designer Kimberly McDonald, the uber-hip Millennium Magazine and Elton John’s personal fashion designer, Kenneth King. He also runs several personal project sites on the side.

Gemma Lolos is a fiercely proud native New Yorker who is devoted to the arts in all its many forms. She loves to sing and listen to music, read great literature, experience inspiring theatre and film, and stream addictive television. She works full-time as a Marketing professional in New York City and does freelance writing on the side. In her free time, Gemma tries to immerse herself in the NYC Arts scene as much as possible, eat great food, and travel whenever she is able.

Sophia is a native Brooklynite with a deep love for food, drink and solo-travel. Previously a techie in the agency world, she has now swan-dived into more creative endeavors. She has a strong taste for whiskey with a growing spreadsheet of past affairs and can be seen eating anything from dollar pizza to Michelin star restaurants meals. Sophia is also a cat-lover holding a TNR certification and can be found taking care of community cats or professionally pet-sitting someone’s fur baby.

Sharon Gomes is obsessed with her rescue dog and all things home related -- organizing, cooking and decorating. Her family has raised dogs for almost 3 decades, and director Ron Howard owns one of their dogs! She works in television and has won multiple Emmys, working for channels such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, PBS and BBC. She has also appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Sharon was handpicked to be the first News Anchor for MTV Networks Asia. After her tenure in Asia, she moved to New York where she produced daily news segments for MTV’s top-rated Total Request Live. Sharon won a Peabody Award as part of the team that produced Rebirth, a full-length documentary that screens at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. She presently produces children's animation and runs her own company Snow Rose Media. Contact her at editorbeautynews@gmail.com.

Not bland at all. Gesha-Marie Bland is an essayist, Vanity Fair-published film and television writer, and unrepentant beauty junkie who jumpstarted her career at NYU’s Master’s Program in Cinema Studies. In homage to her beauty icons Jeanne Moreau, Dolly Parton, and Grace Jones, she is forever in search of the perfect cat-eye liner, a killer pair of heels, and unforgettable statement accessories. Currently NYC-based, this dual American-French citizen still wears all-black and has a soft spot for clean beauty, pharmaceutical-grade actives, and most ingredients sourced from vineyards in the south of France. She loves New Wave cinema, Mary Gaitskill’s fiction, Spain, and matcha double-shots. After selling "The Ripper," her Alexander McQueen-Issie Blow biopic to the Cannes-winning production company Maven Pictures, she remains convinced fashion and couture are the next frontiers for edgy cinematic stories.

Rock n roll. MAC Smolder black eye liner. Lip gloss. Baseball. Football. Bettie Page. Mila Kunis. Moroccan Oil. Writing. Vanilla-scented things. Target. My bulldog Higgins. Those are things I love.

Also: Journalist, publicist, blogger, traveler, serial long distance relationshipper, coconut water drinker, movie buff, believer that you can mix Gap with Balenciaga, yard sale traipser, real estate follower who needs a second bathroom to house my beauty products. I've attended 2000 concerts in my life. 17 years of bylines in rock and lifestyle mags. Blogging happily at PopCrush + more.

Susan Romero is an employment law attorney who also does freelance writing. Susan attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism after practicing law for 15 years and becoming disenchanted with her career. Although she still practices law to pay the bills, Susan's first love is writing about fashion, beauty and health. Her work with BN fulfills her desire to write and have fun at the same time. She lives in Manhattan with her teenage son who is a professional actor.

Danielle Cappolla is a writer who loves finding new beauty and fashion trends. She was born in New York and spent most childhood weekends exploring the city's hidden gems. She attended college and graduate school in the Big Apple. In her spare time, she enjoys scouting New York's dining, hospitality, cultural, and entertainment offerings.

PK Greenfield began his career as a copywriter at AC&R Advertising in NYC. Since then he has written several plays for the theater, corporate communications, marketing collateral and reviews on travel, entertainment, fashion and the arts.

While employed at The Wall Street Journal he worked in the editorial department for the Latin America edition and was promoted to Copy Manager creating content for all WSJ products. He was later promoted to WSJ Special Editions Editor for partner newspapers in Canada, Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands.

Telina Cuppari is a graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, and holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. Originally from San Diego California, Telina speaks three languages and has lived and worked in seven different countries and traveled extensively around the globe. After receiving her Masters, Telina worked in Scotland for three more years writing for the weekly women’s section in Scotland’s national newspaper Daily Record. Since then she has written for various publications all over the world. She has also been an ESL, French, Spanish, and German teacher for over 15 years and currently is the Editor and Publisher of TAPinto Kenilworth in New Jersey. She loves anything beauty related, cooking foreign food, and meeting new people daily. Telina is the current Guinness World Record Holder for the Largest Collection of Pizza-Related Items and has turned her garage into a permanent pizza exhibition. She is the founder of Pizza Kindness, which is an independent, nonprofit dedicated to spreading kindness throughout the community with pizza-related events and campaigns to support college scholarships for students and other charitable organizations. Telina resides in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and dog Hoochie.

As a Venus-ruled Taurus, Sonjirose Chin feels at home with beauty and the finer experiences of life. She knows the best red lipsticks to put on for a pretty pout, what scents can put you in the autumnal spirit, and how slowing down and smelling the roses can truly elevate your psyche. On her off days, you can find her at festivals - losing her voice from singing or hiking barefoot to a waterfall in the tropics and swimming with the current. She graduated from Borough of Manhattan Community College with a major in psychology. She’s currently focusing on her writing endeavors, creative pursuits and being twenty-something with a book in her hands. She’s open to collaborations and coverage, always.

Rachelle Nones was born in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn. She’s written product and service reviews, feature articles, profiles and news articles and once co-wrote the dialogue for an indie film. Rachelle studied fashion marketing and color and design at a private school in Manhattan, New York, before moving on to complete a bachelor’s degree in English literature.

Hannah Kadyrov is a native New Yorker and first generation American. You can most often find her scouring a flea market in search .925 silver and vintage denim, visiting Brighton Beach to get a taste of nostalgic Russian delicacies, taking her cat on a walk in Central Park, or at the MET. She is an adventurous foodie and will never say no to a new taste. Hannah studied Fine Arts at The Fashion Institute of Technology before spending the next few years working different roles in Print Publishing and Advertising. Her current focus is reading as much as possible and writing about anything and everything.

Annika is a Manila-born, California-raised, and NYC-transplanted Filipino-Spanish-American storyteller. Her writing career has spanned from content design to journalism to social media, so she can craft seamless product copy, compelling articles, and killer captions with ease. She’s a techie by day but a creative always, and she loves all things wellness, lifestyle, food, travel, fashion, arts, and culture. Because she’s a Virgo rising and eldest daughter who doesn’t understand the concept of rest, she’s obsessed with perfecting the lazy girl routine and perhaps—one day—achieving that all-elusive leisure. Her simple joys include skincare that doesn’t break you out, chai lattes, baking, a good thrift find, and building trip itineraries on Notion.

Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and critical writer based in Queens, NYC. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, White Hot, Posture, Art511, Utne Reader, Creatrix Mag & N.Paradoxa. Cercone has curated shows for Momenta Art, KARST (UK), Cue Art Foundation, Local Project and NurtureArt. Katie teaches GENDER TROUBLE in the Visual & Critical Studies Department at SVA. Cercone was awarded the 2015 J.U.S.F.C. Fellowship, the 2020 Franklin Furnace Fund Award for Performance Art and the 2014 Aljira Emerge Fellowship.

Brigid Presecky is a versatile freelance writer and photographer based in Chicago. For the past 16 years, she has specialized in arts and entertainment writing as a member of the Chicago Film Critics Film Association and Certified Rotten Tomatoes Critics. In recent years, Brigid has expanded her writing profile to lifestyle, home goods, travel, food and beverage. With an extensive background in public relations, Brigid brings a comprehensive understanding of earned media and brand strategy to her ecommerce writing.

Natalie is a multi-disciplinary designer with over 10 years of experience in design and art direction. She specializes in creating engaging visuals with diverse client types for her freelance business, Toasted Cat Creative (link below). Passionate about uncovering the "why" behind each project, she values purpose-driven design. When not working, Natalie enjoys exploring NYC’s spicy food, traveling, and binge-watching trash TV with her cat.

Catherine is a professional journalist and writer with a penchant for luxury fragrance and all things beauty. A Jersey girl who finds herself in NYC more often than not, she has an obsession with scent and is on an eternal hunt for her new signature perfume. Catherine has written professionally for the entire Europerfumes portfolio and World of Chris Collins, and reported on hundreds of designer and niche fragrances for Beauty News NYC. An avid reader, she loves learning about the history of the beauty industry. She holds a B.A. in journalism and M.A. in English and lives just outside Manhattan with her beagle/dachshund mix, Macy.

Peter is a writer, singer, and Jersey boy who loves beauty and the arts. A recent Stockton University graduate, he is eager to start his career in the beauty industry! He is a Content Coordinator for Best Version Media, where he's interviewed people from nonprofit organizations - to television pioneers! He also works with Tony-Winning Producers and other theatre professionals at the immersive Museum of Broadway in the heart of Times Square. If Peter could write his life, he'd combine his love of music, beauty, and digital media into one dream career!

Courtney Kretchman is an award-winning writer based in Los Angeles. She specializes is creative copy direction, corporate branding, and all things beauty related. She’ll travel far and wide for a luxe spa experience. Kretchman is best known for her engaging writing, poetic style, no-BS approach, and impactful one-liners. When she isn’t crafting a headline or reviewing the latest facial, she can be found climbing a mountain, bragging about her nieces, or running her company My Bracelet Bar (https://www.mybraceletbar.com/)

Elizabeth Hazard is a creative producer and writer with several years of experience producing content for magazines, websites, brands and artists. Liz has worked with some of the most accomplished talents in the industry to conceive, develop and produce photos, videos and written work. A published author, she frequently writes about fashion, art and cultural topics for websites and publications. She also holds a certificate in curating from Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Germany.

After spending over a decade in New York, Amy Hamblen is still impressively bad at giving directions around the city. Fortunately, not knowing one's exact whereabouts creates the opportunity to stumble into new places, so what she lacks in navigational skills, she makes up for with an abundance of solid happy hour recommendations. Amy is originally from Indiana, and whether or not her years spent covering the food and entertainment scene in NYC has earned her a seat at the table may be debatable, but it's of little consequence — she much prefers a stool at the bar.

Alisha Racker’s beauty career has spanned over a decade, beginning in the treatment room as a master esthetician, then onto the corporate world, working in PR for high-end skin care brands. A love for research and writing, coupled with her passion for beauty and wellness, blossomed into her new career: freelance writing.

She’s had the privilege of contributing to DAYSPA magazine, Dermstore Blog and The Spa Insider, to name a few. When Alisha’s not spa-hopping, masking or investigating product labels, she can be found oil painting, planning her next book club meeting or hiking the beautiful Utah mountains, where she resides with her husband and daughter.

Robert Frezza is a New York City music and fashion journalist with years of interviewing experience. He has interviewed musicians from Lady Gaga to Kings of Leon, and designers and fashionistas in between as well. He enjoys the networking and interviewing process, so the public enjoys the read.

Georgia Andrews is a native New Yorker who has worked in beauty, home fragrance, and decor as a writer and editor for magazines and digital media. She's also worked as a copywriter in marketing, brand development, and licensing for home and beauty. Areas of focus include candles that transform rooms, fragrances that spur memories, skincare that’s efficacious yet easy, and dogs that bring joy. (Photo credit: Damaly)

Cobie-Ray Johnson is a writer specializing in editorial and creative non-fiction work. She writes for multiple publications and is an artists' assistant and bike courier. She is from Virginia and moved to New York to attend Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She now lives in the West Village with her cat James.

Kalisha Buckhanon is small town Midwesterner, born-and-raised until college as a University of Chicago English major, and Manhattan-made as an author launched by The New School's M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. Her celebrated novels are Upstate, Conception, Solemn and Speaking of Summer. She's also moonlit as a true crime commentator for shows on BET, ID and TV One as well as day-jobbed often as an inner city educator since college. She loves culture, books, movies, vegetarian food and live music or theater. She lives and works between Chicago and New York City, but you may always visit her at Kalisha.com.

Enamelware enthusiast, general store junkie, radical optimist, and fan of all things authentic, Jolie Loeb has been generating her written spin on travel, spa, dining, and destinations for upwards of eighteen years (@loebtravelers). With a weakness for small-town warmth, café culture, lifestyle marketplaces and the magic of human connection, her travel pieces promise emotion and an unabashed addiction to alliterative adjectives. Based in Los Angeles, when she’s not hanging with her husband, two favorite teens, and their best worst dog, she is writing travel pieces for multiple platforms, scavenging antiques (often curbside. . one man’s trash. .), and curating salvaged beauty and handcrafted things they said @unfinishedstories_jolieloeb.

Isabelle Bryan is a hobbyist fiber-crafter and baker with a love of all things books and plants. Professionally, she is a writer for the audio drama Human Error and a former writer and editor at Marketing Choices and SUCCESS magazine. She has also worked with Malibu Magazine and the California Lutheran University chapter of Her Campus, among other positions.

Courtney Fagan is a writer, creative strategist and millennial mom with a love of local history, hidden gems, ethical skincare & beauty products, new age goodies, and home decor. If she’s wearing headphones, you can bet she’s listening to the latest thriller audiobook or a true crime podcast. She also has a relentless, inner-child-fueled pull to all things Harry Potter, 80’s movies and sleepaway camp. Courtney wants to help people discover unique and exciting things to see, try and obsess over. After living in New Jersey, Virginia and NYC, Courtney now resides in the beautiful & historic Yardley, PA with her husband and two children.

Liliana Walker is an American-gone-global based in London and Berlin, where she is always taking note of culture and style. A Cambridge English graduate, she has an eye on new books, movies, and art. When she isn’t trying her hand as a hobbyist cook or (disastrous) knitter, her current focuses are in writing, designing, and working in sustainable fashion.

Vera Gold is an NYC-based writer and social media professional working in the tech industry. Her love for all things communication has fueled her career in brand advertising and marketing as well as her creative ventures. With an affinity for design, beauty, fashion, and café-hopping, she is always on the lookout for a new tea to try or a new luxury store to walk into. Hailing from Boston, Vera can often be found traveling throughout New England and making the most of every season. Vera has previously written for Her Campus and The Massachusetts Daily Collegian.

Madeline Fisk is a writer and editor with a passion for travel, ALL things makeup and skincare, and dogs. She lives in Cincinnati, OH now but called the Chelsea area in New York City her home for 3 years. She is always on the hunt for the newest and best products on the market, and will gladly offer her face to test just about anything.

Self-described as semi-smart and decidedly pro-caffeine, Carol VanderKloot has never shied away from being overly curious. A writer, traveler, culture seeker, reader, walker, photo snapper, window shopper, iced coffee sipper, she is unlikely to sit idle. Trained as a publicist/media strategist and raised among design folk, she is inspired by art, architecture and design, but for the life of her, cannot draw or paint. Whether by asking too many questions or exploring new paths, she’s motivated to better understand the planet and its inhabitants. Appreciative of family, friends, and dogs, she cannot imagine living anywhere but New York and is grateful to pen for Beauty News NYC.

Lucianne – London Correspondent / A London-based novelist, Lucianne is currently working on her debut novel while continuing her love for beauty, wellness, and the humor found in everyday life. Having written for Beauty News NYC a decade ago, she’s returning with fresh perspectives—now a parent to two daughters, teaching them to enjoy beauty as a form of self-care rather than a measure of worth. When she’s not writing, she’s (barely) surviving Reformer Pilates, doting on her gorgeous (and fully aware of it) golden doodle, or plotting her next travel and spa escape. Occasionally, she even goes on a date with her husband and attempts to talk about something other than their girls. She’s not afraid to laugh at herself in her efforts to stay on-trend and believes beauty should be fun, honest, and personal. Expect her unfiltered takes—because real women deserve real conversations about beauty.

Ruby Power is a London-based journalist and filmmaker passionate about art, design and travel. With a degree in English from Cambridge, she is passionate about writing and is always interested in tracking the latest trends. She loves watching films and finding the best of what's on in London.

Alexandra Wheat is a graduate student with a sharp eye for culture and an unapologetic love for the sensual details of life—fine fabrics, original cocktails, and the pulse of Sunset Boulevard. Currently based in Los Angeles, she splits her time between drafting a thesis in behavior economics, exploring Silverlake with her dog, and losing herself in jazz clubs, new restaurants, and the rhythm of a good essay.

Jessica Wolfe is a Brooklyn-based writer who is a chauffeur of excellence, her taste is elite. She is interested in all things culture, music, fashion, film, art, and is always on the lookout for the next big thing.

Sarah Mina Osman is a writer based in Los Angeles. She's written for SheKnows, HelloGiggles, Matador Network, and Business Insider, among other publications. She loves writing about travel, pop culture, mental health, and fashion. When she's not writing, she's dancing, globe-trotting, watching movies, and eating. She has a deep love for sloths and tacos.

Niya Doyle is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer covering culture and beauty. Her work has appeared in TeenVogue, Dazed Beauty, Autostraddle, Haloscope Mag, and more! When she’s not writing, she’s scrolling through Depop for the latest thrifted finds.

A lover of beauty from a young age, New York-based marketer Maahnoor Shah has always been fascinated by the ways fragrance, makeup, and skincare can transform not only appearance but also emotion and presence. What began as childhood curiosity grew into a lifelong passion for exploring beauty as both an art form and a means of self-expression. She believes that beauty is not superficial but deeply human: a way to tell stories, spark confidence, and create connections across cultures and communities.