Kayla Villena
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Kayla Villena

Global Insight Manager: Beauty and Personal Care

Chicago

English, Tagalog

Kayla’s expertise is in interpreting market data, consumer behaviour and trends to identify strategic opportunities, highlight potential challenges, and forecast the business environment for clients up and down the beauty and personal care supply chain throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions. She guides clients to a better understanding of market dynamics and informed decision-making by cross-analysing the impact of other variables, such as pricing and sustainability, and of connected industries, like retailing, packaging and ingredients, on beauty.

Kayla is a notable figure in the field of beauty and personal care market research. She overseas global market insights of the beauty and personal care industry for Euromonitor International. Kayla is a regular contributor to COSSMA, Beauty Packaging, and Global Cosmetics Industry. She has spoken at industry conferences including Cosmoprof, MakeUp in New York, and INNOCOS. She has been quoted in Vogue Business, Business of Fashion, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Before her current position, Kayla was a project manager and in-country analyst for Euromonitor's Consulting division for six years.

I am fortunate to lead Euromonitor's narrative on beauty and personal care and advise passionate clients on strategic and tactical opportunities, but also to engage in such a fun and lively industry, that celebrates people's identities and can be an instrument for positive change.

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Top Five Trends Shaping Beauty and Personal Care in 2026 and 2027

Global beauty and personal care growth is accelerating as consumers demand tangible value, science-backed efficacy and emotional resonance. Five trends define 2026: Longevity reframes beauty as healthspan; Clean Reimagined moves from "free from" to substantiated proof; Emotional Micro-indulgence turns affordability into joy; Scroll to Shop collapses discovery and purchase into AI-led moments; Asian Wave positions the region as beauty's new centre of ingredient innovation and price-value balance.

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Reflections from World Perfumery Congress 2026

World Perfumery Congress 2026 took place in Monterey, California during 22-25 June, bringing together perfumers, fragrance houses, ingredient suppliers and brands across fine and functional fragrance. Key themes included AI's role in product development, premiumisation in personal care, consumer demand for fragrance communities, and packaging innovation.

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Top Three Beauty Innovation Trends

Euromonitor International identified three key innovation trends in beauty and personal care in 2024, utilising the new Passport Innovation portal—an AI-powered platform that measures the incidence of new brand and sub-brand launches at online retailers across 54 FMCG categories and 32 countries. Innovation in curly hair care, proactive skin care, and multifunctional sun care are helping drive product launches and trends in the beauty and personal care market.

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Events

In person Past event
23 June 2026 08:00 PT

World Perfumery Congress 2026

United States – Monterey Conference Center: 1 Portola Plaza, Monterey, CA 93940

The World Perfumery Congress invites the global fragrance community to transcend boundaries—geographical, cultural, and creative.

Speaker: Kayla Villena

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