Drunk Elephant ranks third in the 2026 Beauty Citation Share Index — but the trajectory matters as much as the score. A look at what happens when a DTC darling's citation graph meets scale, acquisition, and category maturity.
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Do people buy beauty to become or to enhance? The 2019 question was rewritten by Dove and Aerie. The 2026 version was rewritten again by Fenty, Rare Beauty, Rhode, Glossier, and Drunk Elephant — and the PR sequence inverted with it.