BEAUTY | STYLE | SAUCE | MAMA
Lauren Cosenza consults for top brands, websites, and magazines on market positioning and brand strategy. With an eye towards trends and innovation, and a lifelong passion for beauty, fashion and lifestyle, Lauren specializes in crafting a solid and unique brand identity, bringing ideas to life through compelling content and storytelling, and building businesses. From ideation and development through execution and promotion, Lauren oversees launches, partnerships, collaborations and campaigns. Lauren’s clients include Brit + Co, Bustle Digital Group (including Bustle, Romper, Elite Daily), Condé Nast (including Glamour, SELF, teenVOGUE, BRIDES), Hearst (including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Seventeen, Marie Claire), L’Oreal USA (including L’Oreal Paris, Lancôme, Maybelline, Redken), Meredith (including Shape, Real Simple, More, Better Homes & Gardens), Victoria’s Secret, and many more.
Lauren also serves as a trusted beauty/fashion/mom expert, a brand ambassador, an on-camera personality and spokesperson, a creative director, a published editorial contributor and writer, the creator and owner of DIVAlicious®, the creator and owner of BEAUTYfull®, a product junkie and an insatiable style seeker.
Always wanting a bigger beauty role, after several exciting years as a Fun Fearless Female at Cosmo, Lauren moved to Shape to join the Fit & Fabulous. At Shape, Lauren served in a managerial role as the Executive Beauty & Fashion Director and Brand Development Director. Lauren oversaw the national beauty business and within her first two years it surpassed endemic business to become Shape’s largest advertising revenue category via multi-touchpoint integrated strategic partnerships. Additionally, Lauren secured opportunities to extend the brand beyond its pages by managing the development and production of Shape-branded iphone apps, workout DVDs, and home fitness accessories (think hot pink zebra-print yoga mats). In February 2010, timed for release on Valentine’s Day weekend, Lauren conceptualized and spearheaded SHAPEbride – the first-ever synchronized launch of a magazine, website and iphone app — bringing in 20+ new advertisers ranging from luxury bridal fashion and jewelry to retail and tourism.
After seven years in publishing and with an even greater desire to make the world more beautiful, in early 2010 Lauren decided to move on to pursue her passion on her own two… 5” Louboutins.
Lauren created and owns Lauren Cosenza Beauty LLC and since 2007 has a registered trademark on DIVAlicious® and since 2015, BEAUTYfull®.
In addition to consulting and providing beauty/fashion strategy and expertise for top websites, magazines and brands, Lauren is a regularly featured style — and now mom :) — “expert.”
Lauren was the original member of the Cosmopolitan Beauty Brains & Blogs blogger panel and created all editorial and branded makeup looks for Cosmopolitan’s first and long-standing beauty tutorial series in addition to being featured in Cosmo videos and sponsored brand content. Lauren is a Style Ambassador for Glamour, hosting videos and events and representing the magazine on TV segments touting the latest trends in beauty and fashion. Lauren has been featured in-book, online and in video for beauty and fashion brand integrations for SELF in addition to hosting events and serving as Style Curator of the SELF Virtual Trunk Show. Lauren is a Victoria’s Secret Beauty Expert – designing facecharts and custom looks for VS beauty collections and providing VS-branded tips for magazines, websites and blogs. Lauren has handled TV, print and online press for Victoria’s Secret and was honored to serve for years as the Victoria’s Secret Beauty Expert doing makeup and all on-camera videos and press backstage at the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show plus the Victoria’s Secret VIP NYFW Suite and other major editorial and consumer VS events. Lauren has written beauty and fashion columns plus creative directed and been featured in beauty and style brand partnerships for Latina magazine. Lauren was selected as a core launch contributor for L’Oreal’s Makeup.com (one of its four original Beauty Squad members). Lauren was a featured beauty expert for Everyday Health Beauty where she gave no-nonsense commentary on the latest and greatest products on-site and via live twitter chats.
Lauren has hosted videos for clients such as Aveeno, Brides, Clarisonic, Cosmopolitan, CoverGirl, Dior, Glamour, Lancôme, Latina, Matrix, MoroccanOil, Neutrogena, Nivea, Olay, Redken, Rimmel, Sally Hansen, SELF, Style Coalition, Victoria’s Secret, Zoya and many more – in addition to appearing on TV segments offering personal beauty and style tips.
Lauren travels to major US cities with top brands to host fashion shows, disperse beauty and fashion tips and debut lines and collections.
Lauren was showcased on the front page of the New York Times Style section for her take on fashion and NYC nightlife.
In her limited free time, Lauren worked for years as a volunteer in New York City shelters teaching the next generation of young women (and men!) about inner-beauty and its outward expression, plus now donates time whenever requested to makeover programs for breast cancer survivors and women with MS.
Currently, Lauren runs a premium hot sauce brand with her husband in Brooklyn, NY. What started as a small passion project quickly became a full and rapidly-growing operation, in which she serves as Co-Founder and Head of Brand for Señor Lechuga Hot Sauce.
Lauren is a member of Summit Series (since 2009), MAC Pro (since 2008) and Cosmetic Executive Women (since 2004).
Photos: Elizabeth Griffin
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