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Sustainable Holiday Wish List from your Cheekbone Beauty Team!
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If you're looking to give the gift of sustainability this year, then you're in the right place. At Cheekbone Beauty, we have rounded up our favorite sustainable beauty picks that are perfect for the clean living, vegan, and eco-conscious beauty lovers on your list.

Pow Wow with @Cree_Nomad
Cheekbone Warriors! 🧡
If you’re thinking of attending your first Pow Wow this summer, Social Medi...

Brow Gel 101
A Cheekbone Warrior favourite, our Power Brow Gel defines, fills, and shapes the brows without we...

Butterfly Inspired Look #3
Butterflies? Yes please! We are OBSESSED with butterflies, and this butterfly eye look is gorgeou...

Supporting Indigenous Brands as a Non-Indigenous Person
Hello! My name is Melanie, and I’ve worked with Cheekbone Beauty for the last year. My role at Ch...

Butterfly Inspired Look #2
Looking for a bold graphic eye look that is inspired by butterflies? Check out our model, Tanika,...

Our 2022 Sustainability Impact
Hello Cheekbone Warriors!
We are so excited to share our Sustainability Report for 2022. It provi...

Find Us In 52 Sephora Stores Across Canada!
Cheekbone Warriors! We have exciting news to share with you. You can now find us in 52 Sephora st...

Cheekbone Beauty at the MET Gala!!
Every year, on the first Monday of May, all eyes are on New York City as designers, celebrities, ...

Butterfly Inspired Look #1
Do you love butterflies as much as we do? Check out our model, Shkihia, wearing a beautiful and u...

National Indigenous History Month
June is National Indigenous History Month. At Cheekbone Beauty, we encourage you to take time to ...

Love Yourself From The Inside Out
At Cheekbone Beauty, we are always encouraging our audience to celebrate and practice self love. ...

The Cheekbone Beauty Scholarship Fund: 2022 Recipients
Cheekbone Beauty’s mission extends beyond making beauty an inclusive space for the Indigenous com...

Top Five Tips for Booking a Makeup Artist
When booking a makeup artist for a special event or photoshoot, there are few things you should k...

Recognizing Veganuary
This year, we learnt of an organization called Veganuary (vee-gan-you-aire-ee). They are a non-pr...

Repurposing Broken Makeup
It is difficult to accept when your favourite makeup product breaks. We have all been there when...

Tips & Tricks: Makeup Brushes
A makeup up brush to a makeup artist is that of a paint brush to an artist, or a guitar to a musi...

Jenn Harper Featured in The Globe and Mail
Welcome 2023! Cheekbone Beauty is starting the year off strong with a feature on our Founder and ...

Makeup Storage 101
We spoke to our lead Cosmetics Chemist, Lexie, to gather her expert opinion on the best ways to s...

5 Lipliner Techniques
Lipliner is one of those items that is truly underrated during the makeup process. Using a liplin...

Conscious Consumerism
Making conscious consumer decisions is important all year long, but it's especially crucial durin...

How to Use Setting Powder
A great setting powder is a critical step in any makeup routine. When doing makeup for photoshoot...

Indigenous Gift Guide
November is Native American Heritage Month! Throughout the month, we honour the deep roots, the i...

Product Naming Conventions
At Cheekbone Beauty, everything that we do and put out is done with intention.
As an eco-consciou...

How to Use a Makeup Sponge
As we navigate having a very interactive social media presence, particularly on Instagram, we've ...

Nature Inspiration Awards
On September 15th, 2022, it was announced that Cheekbone Beauty is a finalist for the Nature Insp...

About Our Scholarship Fund
At Cheekbone Beauty, giving back is at the core of everything that we do – whether we are giving ...

Refillable Is the New Recyclable.
For years, we have been told the importance of recycling – making sure the proper products either...

Indigenous Storytelling – The Inception of Cheekbone Beauty
While many of our long-time followers may be familiar with the story of how Cheekbone Beauty ca...

The first-ever Cheekbone Beauty Scholarship Fund
From transitioning into an entire line of vegan, sustainably sourced cosmetics to marking new m...

Right the Story
Together, we can Right the Story.
Cheekbone Beauty’s mission is to help Indigenous youth se...

October: A Time for Newness and Renewed Energy
Let the Land be our teacher.Fall is a time of letting go and refreshing our beauty bags. The...

New Look, Same Mission:
Cheekbone Beauty launches with Sephora Canada
The first Indigenous beauty brand to launch in Seph...

The Pow Wow Etiquette: In Conversation with Deanne Hupfield
"It's all about the land." - Deanne Hupfield
Pow Wows are an amazing place to experienc...

Celebrate Indigenous History with 9 Canadian Indigenous-Owned Brands
From apparel to food, enlighten your senses with these incredibly impactful brands and stories ...

Through An Indigenous Lens: The Sustainable Lifecycle
We like to look at sustainability a little differently. Today, the highest standard of sustainability is achieved when we look beyond the environmental concerns, like the safety of using products and its social impact. We're on a mission to craft sustainable cosmetics through the integration of Indigenous wisdom and innovative technologies while helping every Indigenous youth on the planet see and feel their value in the world!