C-Beauty

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C-Beauty, or Chinese beauty is an umbrella term encompassing contemporary beauty products, practises, and ideals originating from China. [1] [2] China has the second largest beauty market in the world, after the United States. [3] Common C-Beauty products include cosmetics, skin care, hair care, perfumes, and nail art. [4] [5] [6] [7] C-Beauty often incorporates influences from traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese art. [8] [9]

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Overview

Chinese beauty products are known for their elaborate packaging, rapid innovation, and cost-effectiveness due to the high expectations of Chinese consumers. [10] [11] As the Chinese market is intensely competitive, some C-Beauty brands have multiple product lines in the works simultaneously. They may take only three to six months to conceptualize, launch, and manufacture a product line. [12]

Pechoin, founded in 1931, is China's oldest skin care brand. [13] Lip muds are a cosmetic product invented by Chinese brand INTO YOU, and later adopted by several other Chinese brands. [11] [14] C-Beauty content creators are credited for popularizing the skincare routine of Vitamin C and Vitamin A serums at different times of day via the "Morning C, Night A" slogan. [15] [16] [17] C-Beauty products that are heavily influenced by Chinese culture may be characterized as being part of a broader social movement known as "guócháo" (国潮) or "China chic", which celebrates traditional Chinese culture. [18] [9]

K-Beauty became popular in China in 2012 and South Korea surpassed the United States and Japan in 2015 to become the second largest exporter of cosmetics to China after France. However, the popularity of K-Beauty declined sharply starting from 2018 due to a combination of unappealing packaging, low efficacy, unreasonable prices, and an over-reliance on the popularity of the Korean Wave rather than focusing on the quality of the products themselves to maintain consumer interest. This provided the opportunity for domestic C-Beauty brands to grow their market share as they offered a more diverse range of higher quality products at more affordable prices compared to K-Beauty. [19] [20]

Global expansion

The intense competition of the Chinese beauty market has caused Chinese companies to expand into overseas markets. [21] Skincare brand Herborist was the first to expand, opening its first European flagship store store in Paris in 2015. [22] In 2016, Chinese cosmetics brand Kailijumei's color-changing, flower lipsticks became a viral sensation overseas. [23] [24] [25] One of the most internationally successful C-Beauty brands is Flower Knows. [26] [27]

Within a five-year span, from 2017 to 2022, the C-Beauty industry doubled its market share. In 2022, C-Beauty brands surpassed international competitors in sales within China. [28] China exported US$4.85 billion worth of cosmetics in 2021. [29] In 2023, the C-Beauty market value was worth US$67.18 billion. [30] In the early 2020s, Chinese makeup styles and cosmetics became popular in Japan. [31] [32]

In 2021, the practice of gua sha facial massage and jade rollers became viral in the West through TikTok. [33] [34] Although this faced criticisms of cultural appropriation as most brands selling Chinese facial toos in the West were not of Chinese origin and Western influencers were promoting gua sha massage methods with no basis in traditional Chinese medicine. [35] [36] [37]

A broad range of Chinese makeup styles and techniques have been labelled "Douyin makeup" in the West, named after the Chinese version for TikTok. [38] [39] However, the majority of these makeup trends have nothing to do with Douyin, and people in China do not use the term "Douyin makeup" themselves. Chinese people simply refer to the makeup styles collectively as "Chinese makeup" or by the specific names of the styles. [40]

Regulation

Since 2014, cosmetics manufactured and sold in China do not require animal testing if reliable safety assessment reports are provided, although it continued to require animal testing for imported products from other countries. This law was amended in 2021, when foreign companies were allowed to export cosmetics to China without animal testing. [41]

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