25 Top Queer Beauty Brands of 2023
25 of the top queer-owned beauty brands of 2023
Over the years, queer people have established themselves as the biggest trendsetters and connoisseurs of all things beauty and cosmetics related. The list is endless when it comes to the LGBTQ+ presence in beauty and skincare. Here are some of the top queer-owned beauty brands of 2023.
Fempower Beauty
Fempower was born out of the belief that no one should look in the mirror and say negative things about themselves. Fempower is healing the harms of the beauty industry with luxury products and services that affirm and uplift. Black-owned + Lesbian-owned
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Wiselands
Queer & employee-owned skincare brand with concentrated, renewable ingredients made in USA for a more sustainable future
good light cosmetics
good light is beauty beyond the binary, focused on moving culture forward by promoting a more inclusive definition of beauty through product and purpose. AAPI-owned.
UrbanBody Skincare
UrbanBody Skincare is committed to giving you a spa quality experience, with all natural products that actually do what you need them to do. Every product is handcrafted and designed with your glow in mind. Black-owned + Woman-owned
About-Face by Halsey
About-Face is a Vegan and multi-dimensional makeup brand that is queer owned. The Make-up brand was launched on January 4, 2021 by bisexual American Singer and Songwriter, Halsey. It is known for offering products that cater to the needs of oily and rutty skin and compliments several shades. Halsey was inspired by and made it for the diverse and artistic community.
Peace Out Skincare
Enrico Frezza struggled immensely with acne and hyperpigmentation as a teenager. This is what initially sparked his interest in creating a skincare brand that produced great results. The brand’s mission is to give consumers that, “Feel-good, live-life unfiltered skin. In honor of Pride Month, Peace Out Skincare launched a new acne patch where $5 from each one sold on its website will be donated to The Trevor Project, with an overall minimum contribution of $25,000.
Barb
Barb creates styling products for short hair. We’re evolving the hair and beauty industries into a more inclusive space for all humans.
Snif
Snif is a gender-neutral, vegan, and cruelty-free fragrance brand co-founded by Bryan Edwards and Phil Riportella.In addition to the brand’s affordable prices, it allows consumers to use a trial kit before committing to a scent of their liking. Inspired by the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole, the founders’ goal is to promote inclusivity in the world of fragrance.
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Trixie Cosmetics
Trixie Cosmetics was founded by Drag Superstar, Trixie Mattel. The brand is a reflection of Trixie as a person with its bright color and fun packaging of nostalgic childhood toys. The Brand’s aim is to bring enjoyment to the makeup process in every aspect for all users by incorporating a variety of shades. With this product you will definitely feel like a legend, icon, and star.
Kiss My Face
Kiss My Face was Co-founded in the early 1980s by Bob Mcleoud and Steve Byckiewicz on a 200 acre farm in New York’s Hudson River Valley. The brand offers a lengthy list of hygiene products from soaps to sunscreen to toothpaste and prides itself on being mostly vegan and animal-cruelty free. The products are also known for their gentle touch as they are composed of sustainable, plant-based ingredients.
Malin + Goetz
Malin + Goetz is a queer owned beauty brand that was started in 2004 by Co-owners, Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz. The goal of the two was to make skincare simple for everyone. Malin and Goetz initially only offered 6 essential products which included cleanser, moisturizer and hair care products. But as of today, the company has expanded their brand to offer products for each part of the body in addition to candles. However, their greatest concerns have always been skincare.
Common Heir
Common Heir was founded in 2020 by Co-owners Angela Ubias and Cary Lin. Both shared a common love for beauty, and decided to become innovators in the industry by creating a skincare line that was high performing yet plastic free. The two women claimed to have incorporated the beauty secrets from the women in their life as a way to continue their legacy. It is clear that tradition and discipline has allowed Common Heir to experience a lot of success. POC-owned + Woman-owned
Boy Smells
Boy Smells was founded in 2015 by Co-founders and Partners Matthew Herman and David Kien. According to Herman, “As a brand, Boy Smells is on a journey to liberate gender and identity through a new world of personal products we define as ‘genderful.” The term is defined as the evolving thinking around gender, which excludes the ideas of binary and unisex codes. Boy Smells offers candles, fragrances, and intimate wears that are wrapped in pink packaging.
Patrick Ta Beauty
Patrick Ta Beauty was founded by gay makeup artist, Patrick Ta. Though Ta started out as a Make-Up artist, he now is an esteemed entrepreneur that offers duo cream, complexion powder palettes, lip glosses, and blushes. His aim is to make women feel as comfortable and loved as they made him when he was a child.
Phillip B.
Phillip B. is a botanical based Hair Care line that was founded in 1991 by Hollywood Hair Care Specialist, Phillip B. The line prides itself for having a focus on scalp-friendly natural ingredients incorporated into all the shampoos, conditioners, and styling products they have available. This pride month Phillip B. will be donating a portion of his profits to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Alder New York
Alder New York is a queer and woman-owned independent skincare line created by Nina Zilka and David Krause. They began their collaborative design partnership over a decade ago in NYC. In 2016 they took their considered approach to design to an industry often dominated by frivolous trends and launched their clean, vegan skincare line Alder New York.
Freck Beauty
Freck Beauty is a bold, clean beauty brand for anyone that cares about ingredients, respects the process, and doesn’t care about the rules. In 2017 Freck Beauty debuted its beauty mark on an industry traditionally inclined to cover them up, and has been changing the game ever since. From clean skincare solutions to bold makeup, Freck has organically become a cult-favorite among press, celebrities, influencers, MUAs, retailers, millennials and Gen Z.
NOTO botanics
NOTO is a multi-use, gender-inclusive, clean cosmetic line. Packed with uncomplicated yet high-performing ingredients that will change your skin with regular use, NOTO celebrates the authentic and diverse layers of what self-expression and beauty can mean.
Bioglitz
An eco-friendly , gender-neutral brand fighting to take the litter out of glitter
TANAÏS
Opulent, infinite, and luxurious beauty, perfume, and jewelry
Well People
Natural beauty & skincare that is cruelty-free, plant-powered, and planet-minded
Volition Beauty
Volition Beauty empowers creators to become beauty entrepreneurs
Equal Love
=LOVE is a line of products with a purpose: celebrate diversity and promote LOVE. Our efforts and business practices include loving all living beings. Queer-owned + Latinx-owned + Woman-owned
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Hairrari
Gender-neutral barbershop with locations in Brooklyn, Portland, and Los Angeles
WILE SCENTS
Provocative, Unpolished and Raw Non-Gendered Scents
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