Welcome to Studio Eight
Where Beauty, Tech, and Storytelling Meet.
This is our editorial home, a space to explore what’s next in beauty culture through stories, strategy, and smart conversation.
From behind-the-scenes insights to The Beauty Edit series, everything here is designed to inspire how you show up beautifully, online and in real life.
The Beauty Edit, Stories That Shape the Culture of Showing Up Beautifully.
Part editorial, part diary, part business journal, The Beauty Edit explores the ideas shaping modern beauty, creativity, and connection.
From product deep dives to brand building, every issue invites you inside the Triple Eight world, where beauty isn’t a category, it’s a culture.
The Beauty Edit, Explained
The Beauty Edit Video is where our editorials meet real conversation. Led by founder Chardé, this series breaks down the ideas, moments, and industry shifts behind each Beauty Edit, adding clarity, context, and insight for anyone navigating beauty as culture, business, or craft.
A Creative Studio. A Tech Lab. A Beauty Think Tank.
Studio Eight is where the ideas behind Triple Eight Creative come to life.
It’s our space to test, build, and reimagine the beauty experience through editorial storytelling, digital innovation, and creative experimentation.
We develop:
Content & Campaign Concepts that merge culture with commerce.
Interactive Experiences like The Signature Glam Quiz and Inner Circle Hub.
Brand Collaborations that bring beauty into real-world environments.
The Inner Circle
One topic. Three perspectives.
Endless ways to show up.
This section is where the Inner Circle comes to life.
Each post takes a single idea, beauty, artistry, brand building, culture, and breaks it down through the three pillars of the T8C ecosystem:
Client
Pro
Business
One lens never tells the full story. The Inner Circle explores how a topic shifts depending on how you move through beauty and creativity, whether you’re showing up for yourself, your craft, or your brand.
Expect clean insights, seasonal conversations, behind-the-scenes moments, and thought-forward beauty commentary shaped by the world we’re building.
This is the editorial companion to the T8C universe, grounded, intentional, and always in motion.
Signature Glam
The creative heart of Triple Eight Creative, a series that celebrates individuality, artistry, and self-expression.
Each glam style is an archetype of beauty in motion: a reflection of who you are and who you’re becoming.
Through our weekly Studio Eight features, curated events, and community classes, we turn the language of makeup into a story of confidence, identity, and connection.
Whether you’re discovering your look or evolving your artistry, Signature Glam helps you build your own blueprint for showing up beautifully.
Take the Signature Glam Test to discover your style,
The MAC x Sephora Move: A Defining Moment for Legacy Beauty
MAC entering Sephora isn’t just retail news. It’s a defining moment for legacy beauty. From Ruby Woo and Studio Fix to the culture built behind the counter, this Beauty Edit explores whether artistry can survive the algorithm and what this move means for the future of iconic brands.
After 20 years in beauty,building a salon featured in Women's Wear Daily, leading operations at MAC Cosmetics—here's what I learned about what beauty actually needs.
Beauty is a billion-dollar industry operating on outdated infrastructure. While consumers expect personalization, ease, and digital clarity in every other part of their lives, beauty services remain fragmented and inconsistent. The future of high-touch industries will not be less human — it will be more intentional. Technology, when designed with care, does not replace intimacy. It scales it.
Loyalty Is Not Points. It’s Protection.
Loyalty programs used to be about points. In beauty today, they’re about belonging, trust, and protection. With the market shifting fast and customers paying closer attention to what brands stand for, community has become the strategy that keeps people coming back. In this week’s Beauty Edit, I break down what retailers like Ulta have proven about loyalty, what brands can learn from The Lip Bar’s resilience, and why I built this moment to make the audience the celebrity.
#ForTheLovers: Sweet, Villain, Repeat
Sweet side or villain energy? Take the Signature Glam Test, explore the GlamaZine, shop the curated list, and book Winter Edit services.
Black History Month and Beauty: Let’s Stop Pretending We Don’t See It
Every Black History Month, the beauty industry talks about community and progress. This year, I wanted to talk about power. From corporate beauty to brand-building, this Beauty Edit explores why Black women are often valued for labor but excluded from strategy, how performative inclusion limits real growth, and why platforms that amplify Black founders matter now more than ever.
#ForTheLovers
The Ulta Beauty World rollout wasn’t a failure of demand. It was a failure of listening. As excitement built across social media, customers signaled exactly what they wanted. But when access prioritized influencers over loyal spenders, the disconnect became impossible to ignore. This Beauty Edit explores what the moment reveals about loyalty, trust, and why the future of beauty events must be built around real connection, not optics.
Ulta, Loyalty, and the Cost of Not Listening
The Ulta Beauty World rollout wasn’t a failure of demand. It was a failure of listening. As excitement built across social media, customers signaled exactly what they wanted. But when access prioritized influencers over loyal spenders, the disconnect became impossible to ignore. This Beauty Edit explores what the moment reveals about loyalty, trust, and why the future of beauty events must be built around real connection, not optics.
The Update: Main Character Energy
For too long, beauty has been marketed like the celebrity is the product and everyone else is the audience. Triple Eight Creative is flipping that. This is the new era of T8C: clear hubs, membership-powered booking, and Signature Glam as the system that makes beauty feel personal again.
The Power of Showing Up Digitally
In awards season and beyond, beauty professionals need more than social media to grow.
Why a strong website, branding, and digital infrastructure are essential for booking clients and building longevity.
The Cost of Disconnection
Legacy beauty brands aren’t failing. They’re being challenged to reconnect. In a saturated market, product alone isn’t enough. Education, experience, and trust now define longevity in beauty.
Where’s the Clarity?!
If you’ve been guessing your way through your routine, you’re not the problem. The system is. This post breaks down what’s missing in beauty right now—and how the Signature Glam Test and Winter Edit were built to bring the structure back.
WELCOME TO WINTER
Winter isn’t the season to disappear. It’s the season to decide how you want to show up. The Winter Edit was created to bring clarity to beauty at a time when everything feels louder. This season is about intention, presence, and choosing glamour on your terms. Whether that looks like bare skin and quiet confidence or fur coats and smoked-out eyes, the power is in the choice. The Winter Edit exists to support that decision and help you show up beautifully.
What Beauty Brands Got Right This Year
As beauty brands close out the year, the real opportunity isn’t louder marketing. It’s clearer education, stronger community, and experiences that connect people to products in real life. The Winter Edit is Triple Eight Creative’s response to where beauty is headed next.
A Night with Harlem Fashion Row at Brace Life Studios
Inside HFR’s After Hours event at Brace Life Studios. A look at designers, community moments, and the impact of supporting Black-owned brands.
Six Months In — The Beginning of a Global Beauty House
Six months into relaunching Triple Eight Creative, I’m finally seeing the blueprint of the beauty house I’ve been building my entire career. What started as a return to my artistry has evolved into a brand rooted in clarity, identity, and connection. This reflection looks back at the moments that shaped T8C and the vision guiding the next chapter.
The Cold-Weather Beauty Reset
Winter hits your routine harder than you think. Here’s why your hair, skin, and glam feel “off” — and how to reset with intention for the cold-weather season.
The Beauty Edit: Winter Is Coming
Late but beautiful. This week’s Beauty Edit explores what showing up really looks like — featuring Vera Hair Co, reflections on Teen Vogue, and what’s next for Triple Eight Creative as winter arrives.
THE DUMBEST IDEA THAT MADE SENSE
Being a digital beauty brand doesn’t mean living online.
It means using systems, tech, and storytelling to make beauty feel human again.
The Beauty Professional’s Digital Era: Owning Your Online Space
Being a beauty professional in today’s digital age isn’t for the faint of heart. Between mastering new trends, learning techniques, and managing clients, the pressure to also become a content creator can feel overwhelming. Add in the rise of AI and the ever-changing algorithms — and suddenly, being an artist means becoming your own digital strategist.
The Beauty Edit: When the People Who Built the Industry Start to Lead It
Studio Eight by Triple Eight Creative is a digital media platform exploring the intersection of beauty, culture, and innovation. From industry insights and trend breakdowns to interviews with creators redefining the space, Studio Eight spotlights the voices shaping the future of beauty—both behind the chair and behind the brand.
Beauty is a billion-dollar industry operating on outdated infrastructure. While consumers expect personalization, ease, and digital clarity in every other part of their lives, beauty services remain fragmented and inconsistent. The future of high-touch industries will not be less human — it will be more intentional. Technology, when designed with care, does not replace intimacy. It scales it.