Business Science

The Skincare Index: A Lipstick Index for the Times of Covid

A statistical analysis of the new markers of economic downturn in consumer behaviour

Elena Marocco
The Startup
Published in
8 min readOct 5, 2020

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A colleague of mine recently idly brought up the lipstick index, wondering what impact masks would have on its usefulness as an economic marker. I hadn’t heard the term…

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Elena Marocco
The Startup

Evo Product Team leader since 2020 — Supply chain team leader since 2019 — Data Scientist since 2016 — Master’s degree in Mathematics