10 Best Indigenous Beauty Brands to Buy From This Fall

Cheekbone is a Canadian favourite for their earth friendly, fearlessly indigenous brand led by Jenn Harper, Cheekbone has the best line of long wear lip colours that you’ll find on the market.

We’re in love with this deep purple hue, named Amber ($29) for fellow indigenous entrepreneur, Amber Montour.

A brand steeped in power drawn from their indigenous roots, Quw’utsun Made was created when the founder, Arianna Lauren was living in the small tribal village of Swinomish and recognized the need for traditional healing medicines in the form of modern skin care. We love the Rosewater Nettle Mist ($40), for a healing mid day refresh.

Pronounced skwall-win, this hand crafted beauty brand has an incredible line up of plant based, science-backed products from coconut lip balm to a wild rose masque that calms skin and soothes redness.

Founder Leigh combines her experience as ethnobotanist, researcher and community activist into a beautifully intentional brand that will look beautiful on your bathroom shelf.

Ah-Shí Beauty, founded by LaFrance-Chachere, who is diné and Black, offers a huge range of products including skincare, but where it really shines in its foundation and concealer category offering all varieties of formulas from mousses and powders to sticks. We love the shade variety (including blush and colour correctors) in this creamy foundation stick ($62)

Make up artist turned beauty brand founder, Vanessa Billiee creates a beautifully curated line of eye and lip colours keeping her Indigenous upbringing at the heart of her operations.

We love the silky texture of this shadow palette in Billiee Baby ($28).

Deriving their name from the words for ‘medicine soaps’ in Lakota, Haipazaza Phezuta offers a gorgeous range of hand pressed soaps and body butters with an emphasis on healing ingredients and minimal packaging.

We cannot wait to try this beautiful Prarie in Bloom ($8), which includes ingredients like goats milk and castor oil for maximum nutrients.

Mother Earth Essentials was founded using Cree knowledge passed down to founder, Carrie Armstrong to create beautiful, medicinal and earth conscious products.

Our top pick is the sweet grass candles ($26) that we can’t wait to enjoy in our next bath night.

Coming up next is Prado Beauty with a selection of gorgeous faux lashes ($21).

They also have some beautiful brushes. Founder Cece Meadows contributes 50% of sales to communities in need, showing some real beauty in her operations and products.

Blended Girl Cosmetics offers a range of products from brushes and lip colours, but where they really stand out of their incredible colour range of eye shadow palettes. Each palette is named with Indigenous culture in mind with names like: resilient, native glare and painted desert. Named by the founders, Shí-Fawn Chee, the goal was to create more representation for Indigenous people in the beauty industry.

We all over the resilient palette with its deep indigo and stunning glitter ($32).

Tara Tarbell is the Mohawk founder of Niawen Skincare, offering two gorgeous collections (chaga and sweetgrass) that include: soap, scrub, lotion, mist and oil creating the perfect routine for your Sunday night baths.

We love the entire sweetgrass collection ($126) for its earthy sweet scent.