Colour cosmetics, UK, 2016

Published: 14-Nov-2016
Colour Cosmetics

Another golden year for the UK colour cosmetics market, as British women’s passion for eye, lip and face make-up continued to grow. Overall the market grew by 5.9% to £754.607m with prestige brands surging by 11%

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Colour cosmetics, UK, 2016

The UK colour cosmetics market is glowing so brightly it may as well have been swept with a draping brush. According to Kantar Worldpanel, the face, eye and lip make-up categories grew by 5.9% in value terms to £754.607m while volume sales were equally rosy, climbing 6.3% to 136.092m units for the year to 14 August 2016. And Mintel believes the total colour cosmetics market will

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