(Toronto, ON) - Cheekbone Beauty announces today the launch of The Powwow Kit on June 21, in honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day - a powerful celebration of strength, pride, and representation.
This limited-edition set features Cheekbone’s most-loved essentials and is housed in collectible packaging showcasing original artwork by celebrated Cree artist Kent Monkman, merging beauty with bold cultural storytelling.
The Powwow Kit:
Mattifying Moon Dust: translucent setting powder that controls shine without dulling your natural glow
Horizon Lip Pencil in True Red: rich, empowering red for defining your boldest lip
Healing Lip Oil in Resilience Red (Limited Edition): sheer tinted hydration that honours strength and vitality
Uprise Mascara: 99% natural fan-favourite mascara for lifted, lengthened lashes
The box's sleeve unfolds into a beautiful frameable limited-edition print of Monkman’s iconic work, "Giants Walk the Earth" — a powerful reimagining of presence, legacy, and identity. (© Kent Monkman 2022 / Courtesy of the Artist and the Denver Art Museum. All rights reserved.)
Retail Price: $99 CAD
Launch Date: June 21, 2025 (National Indigenous Peoples Day)
Availability: Limited edition, available at cheekbonebeauty.com beginning on June 21
ABOUT CHEEKBONE BEAUTY
Cheekbone Beauty is an Indigenous-owned and founded Canadian cosmetics company established in 2016 by Jennifer Harper. Cheekbone Beauty is known for creating high quality, vegan cruelty-free beauty products such as lipsticks and complexion products including multi-use pencils and a pressed setting powder.
KENT MONKMAN is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of Fisher River
Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba), he lives and works between New York
City and Toronto.
Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work
as a time-travelling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze
to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. His artworks are held
in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art;
the Denver Art Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Hood Museum of Art; the Heard
Museum; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Glenbow Museum; macLYON; and
the Art Gallery of Ontario. Private collections that house his works include Art Bridges;
the Horseman Foundation; the Tia Collection, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation;
Forge Project; the Gochman Family Collection; the Sobey Art Foundation; and the Rob
& Monique Sobey Foundation.
In 2019, Monkman was commissioned as the inaugural artist to make two monumental
paintings for The Met’s Great Hall Commission project. In 2023, he was appointed an
Officer of the Order of Canada—Canada’s highest civilian honour—and in 2025, he
received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
MEDIA CONTACT
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