I get excited about a lot of beauty brands, but very rarely do I get really excited about brands I’ve never heard of before.

Since I live in a city with a large Indigenous population, learning about the different First Nations cultures and teachings has always been very interesting to me.  Because of that, when I was first introduced to Cheekbone Beauty I wanted to know everything about it.

Cheekbone Beauty was started by Jennifer Harper in 2016, who currently lives in St. Catherines, Ontario. Not only is Cheekbone Beauty clean and sustainable, but they also donate 10 per cent of profit to the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society (FNCFCS). There is so much to say about this brand and the formation of it, but I recommend you checking out their about me page to learn more about their founder, as well as more about what they stand for.

Anyways, as for the makeup itself, the brand is known for their various lip products, but they also have a wide range of different face items as well. Their items are high-quality, cruelty-free, and come in sustainable packaging. They also have cultural sustainability in their mandate, hiring Indigenous people and using Indigenous languages and training and development programs for their employees.

Anyways, I could go on and on about how fabulous Cheekbone Beauty is, but we are here to chat about their limited-edition Christi Belcourt Limited Edition Gift Box (C$125), which features three of their Sustain lipsticks in colours exclusive to this collection.

The lipsticks come housed in a box which features Belcourt’s The Painting is a Mirror, which aims to reflect to the viewer all the beauty that is within them. They chose this particular painting since Cheekbone’s mission is to help Indigenous youth feel seen and represented.  Open up the box to reveal the three lipsticks which also feature the same painting on their packaging.  There is Nuna, the perfect nude with taupe undertones; Makoc, an oxbow red; and Ooxor, a 90s-style brown.  All three shades are named after land or earth in different Indigenous languages (there are over 7,000 different languages!).

These lipsticks are vegan and are free of any scents and essential oils.  They are also made in small batches and poured by hand.  The packaging features 85 per cent less plastic and is made from biodegradable paper (the brand also features a method on how to safely recycle the packaging on their site).

Now aside from the beautiful packaging, the lipstick shades themselves are also very stunning.  I did find the formula to be on the drier side when applying them, but once the formula is warmed up by your lips, I did find them to melt on application.  I absolutely love Nuna, the nude shade, which I really do find to be the most perfect nude shade since it’s not too light and not too dark.  I also found that it stayed on very well (similar to a matte liquid lipstick) and it wasn’t sticky at all. I’ll definitely get the most use out of Nuna, but Makoc and Ooxor are also really stunning as well.

To top all this off, $5 from every purchase of this set goes to support Nimkii Aazhibikong, a year-round land-based language and traditional arts camp.

Each Cheekbone Beauty purchase also ships with a thank you card that you can plant to grow flowers, as well as a hot pink feather (or a vegan alternative), which you’re supposed to pass on to a person that has done something to earn your love and gratitude.

I think that this is such a wonderful gift for others or for yourself since I love everything about this set.  It is on the pricier side (especially since a Sustain lipstick retails for C$32 each), but it’s such a beautiful message and I love the charity portion as well.  In addition to all of this, their products are made in Canada, they are an Indigenous line, and are cruelty-free and vegan.  What more could you possibly ask for?  Oh yeah, good makeup, which these lipsticks definitely are (seriously, the shade Nuna is reason enough to pick this up).

You can find Cheekbone Beauty on their official site, but hoping that some major retailers discover them soon so they can be more widely recognized.

Have you tried anything from Cheekbone Beauty?

>Please note, products sent by PR. All opinions are my own.

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