What It Is: After the wild success of their previous collabs, ColourPop and KathleenLights have created a new collection together -- and it's arriving just in time for the holidays. The collaboration includes the twelve-shade Dream St. Shadow Palette, $16, as well as the Dream Team Lip Trio, $18 (which consists of two Ultra Satin Lips, and one Ultra Glossy Lip).
Why You Need It: If you head over to KathleenLights' channel, she's already swatched the entire collection -- and they're gorgeous. Standouts include the subtly shimmery neutral nude Ultra Glossy Lip in MoonChild, as well as the foiled rose gold eye shadow in Twinkle, the "burnt" hot pink eye shadow in Spark and the silvery iridescent eye shadow in Kaleidoscope.
How to Get It: Launches December 1 on colourpop.com.
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M.A.C. x Patrick Starrr
What It Is: Mega-popular beauty blogger Patrick Starrr will be working with M.A.C. on a huge collaboration -- and the first wave of new products will be launching just in time for the holidays.
Why You Need It: According to Refinery 29, the exciting collaboration will take place over the course of the coming year, and will include five whole collections. The first set to be released features a gorgeous (and universal!) setting powder, revealed in its full glory via Patrick Starr's Instagram account.
How to Get It: Launches December 14, on maccosmetics.com
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Kat Von D Beauty x Billie Joe Armstrong
What It Is: Kat Von D Beauty released a sneak peek via their Instagram story -- it looks like they'll be joining forces with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong on a new liner, charmingly named "Basket Case," after the band's 1994 single.
Why You Need It: We don't know all the details yet, but we do know this: Kat Von D is very good at eyeliner. And Billie Joe Armstrong is verygood at guyliner. Together, who knows what kind of magical makeup alchemy they'll create -- especially when the packaging is this cute; what with its gilded bubble lettering.
How to Get It: Launch date January 2018 on katvondbeauty.com
Why You Need It: The Alissa Ashley Lip Gloss, $6 is a lovely (and on-trend) dusty rose nude, and never fear -- it's got weightless shine to spare. Oh, and if Ashley's gorgeous new lip gloss has got you thinking about the Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer, that's no mistake: Like Rihanna, Ashley had inclusivity in mind when she was designing her gloss. "I chose this color because it's one that anyone could wear," she explained to PopSugar.
How to Get It: Launches October 24 on elfcosmetics.com.
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BH Cosmetics x ItsMyRayeRaye
What It Is: BH Cosmetics and YouTube star ItsMyRayeRaye are collaborating on a 21-shade face/eye shadow palette, as well as a nine-piece brush set.
Why You Need It: The BH Cosmetics x ItsMyRayeRaye 21 Color Eyeshadow, Highlighter & Contour Palette features 15 shadows (a mix of shimmers and mattes), as well as three contour shades and three highlight shades. "I wanted to create products that inspire everyone to enhance their unique beauty, so I helped develop a palette of eyeshadows featuring on-trend shades, along with a range of contours and highlighters that flatter multiple skin tones," explained Raye in a press release.
For its part, the nine-piece brush set complements the palette quite nicely; both in terms of its rose gold appearance and its functionality, as it contains a mix of complexion and eye brushes.
Whether it's makeup how-tos or beauty product recommendations, we turn to our favorite beauty bloggers for their mad makeup skills and candid opinions about all things beauty. When they swoon over a dazzling new highlighter, we die a little bit too. If they're obsessed with a particular liquid lipstick, we run out and buy it, too. In other words, their opinions hold a lot of value to us beauty junkies. Which is why, when beauty bloggers team up with beauty brands for makeup collaborations, they're among the most highly anticipated product launches of the year.
From drool-worthy eye shadow palettes to seen-from-space highlighters, our favorite beauty gurus know exactly what we're looking for in our makeup. Here, the latest and greatest beauty Youtuber launches we can't wait to get our hands on.
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JESSICA AMARIS, ROSIE NARASAKI |
JUN 12, 2018 | SHARES