20 Black-Founded Beauty Businesses You Can Support Right Now

This line of organic ingredient mists, oils, scrubs and butters is based in Toronto’s east end.

Makeup For Melanin Girls founder Tomi Gbeleyi got the idea for her brand after dealing with unprepared makeup artists during her modelling career.

Launched in 2012, this New York-based line boasts products that are paraben and cruelty-free.

Shop a range of products including specialized ‘systems’ to address aging, ingrown hair growth and hydration.

Elizabeth Shabi, who moved to Canada from Nigeria, launched this small-batch skincare line that focuses on the power of serums.

This Vancouver-based brand offers a range of products including face oils, a detoxifying mask and smoothing body scrub.

Created by a mother-daughter duo, this collection of botanical remedies uses ingredients like jasmine, rose and bergamot.

Level up your self-care stash with the handmade-to-order oils, masks and more from this Toronto brand.

Katonya Breaux founded this brand of tinted, ‘no residue’ sunscreens in 2016.

Launched in 2011, this Detroit-based brand launched by former financial analyst Melissa Butler has products crafted with vegan formulations.

Founder Jasmine Rose was inspired to start her line of safely-formulated cosmetics after her mother passed away from breast cancer in 2007.

This makeup and skincare brand recently released a new range of colours in its much-loved Eye Appeal Lid Glitz eyeshadow offering.

Not only a pioneer in the modelling world, Iman made waves in the beauty industry when she founded this POC-focused brand in 1994.

With over 25 years’ experience celebrating ‘the nuances of black skin’, this brand was founded by Cheryl Mayberry McKissack and Desiree Rogers.

Certified aesthetician and MBA graduate Andrea Polk is behind this brand, which offers shaving kits, a beard wash and more.

Tristan Walker created this revolutionary brand that now counts products that address needs ‘from top to toe’.

Created by one of the world’s most renowned makeup artists, this luxe line has an assortment of single products and kits.

In only two years, Rihanna has taken her inclusivity-focused cosmetic line to new heights; it’s most recent product is a chocolate-hued lip colour infused with pomegranate oil.

This Montreal-based body care line features natural ingredients including certified organic canadian Hemp seed oil.

Model and actress Keyshia Ka’oir’s eponymous brand offers richly pigmented, high-impact cosmetics