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The spread of COVID-19 has been significantly affecting the cosmetic industry chain- _26 many beauty
businesses are Struegling to Keep Sales during the COVID-19 outbreak, online sales 9f nail care produets have
shown double-digit growth. Figures frop寺0 Group, one of the largest market research companies im the world
了hat monitors consumer purchase data, (27 that online UK sales of premium naul products jumped by 1296 in
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the week when the public were asked 人0 after non-essential busSinesseSs Were
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The “Lipstick Effect”1s a ]ong-standingytheory 也at consumerS, when faced With difficult economie condittons,
wi 28 [buying bip-ticket items but treat themselves to smaller luxuries Such as expenslve lipsticks. For
ecXample, im 2017, Jipstick sales inereased as financial “29 _”grew,
The inerease jjn online sales of nail products indicates that nail care could be the Covid-19 Lipstick Effect
Consumers are inereasingly turning to self-care and home-based beauty treatments like at-home manicures to
improve weljbeing and _ 30 their mood, An application ofnail poltsh is quick, Simple, and provides an lnstamt
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