Fierce Femme Favorites from The Gang
Indige-Slay
From Left to Right: Prados Beauty X Steven Paul Judd Eyeshadow Palette ($30), Prados Beauty Makeup Brush Set ($35), Ah-Shi Camera Ready Foundation Primer ($48), The Lip Bar Set The Tone Finishing Powder ($13), Just A Tint 3-in-1 Tinted Skin Conditioner ($17), Huetzca Health Tlahuilli Exfoliant Cleansing Dust ($15), Winston Paul Makeup Bag ($40), 4th World Farm Pinon Salve ($5), Huetzca Health Yectenehua Multi-Use Oil ($23), Quw’utsun Made Rosewater Nettle Mist ($30), Sanrio Kuromi Sparkle Silicone Makeup Applicator ($5), Cheekbone SUSTAIN EYES Bundle of 5 ($89 CAD & $71.03 USD)
Prados Beauty X Steven Paul Judd
This 30 shade palette showcases beautiful art by Steven Paul Judd and a mixture of shimmers and mattes.This beautiful palette has a shade range from sultry light cream colors, to rich and bold reds, greens, blues and purples. Indigenous women owned, Prados Beauty has a wide variety of affordable quality products. Lipstick, Brushes, blush, highlighters and lashes, they’ve got it going on!
30 Colors for $30?! Yes, yes!
THE PRADOS PROMISE
The Prados Promise is our commitment to the community we live in and love. It's more than just a giveback. The Promise is our commitment to put our money, time and mentorship back into Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. We do this by:
Donating a portion of all proceeds back to charities and causes that support Indigenous communities
Volunteering in our local Indigenous community
Promoting Indigenous brands and entrepreneurs across our social media channels and website
Cheekbone
Cheekbone beauty has graced each of our photoshoots. We are long time fans of their lippies and palettes. We are so proud to see them evolve to creating more products AND most importantly sustainable products. Staying connected to their Indigenous roots, SUSTAIN products remains true to their mission of creating beautiful makeup founded in the pillar of sustainability, bringing awareness to how our actions today will impact the next generations. Cheekbone products are never tested on animals, with vegan options, and paraben free. You can feel good about what they include in their makeup and the environmental impact as they move to lessen waste. Palettes can be refilled, lippies recycled (they include instructions on how to properly recycle) and their packaging is filled biodegradable and filled with flower seeds.
Cheekbone’s newest product line is called SUSTAIN Eyes. Eyeliner pencils and eyeshadows are vegan, gluten-free and formulated with sustainably sourced ingredients and are completely biodegradable. As one reviewer commented, “Choosing which vibrant colors to wear, reflect my mood that day - Cobalt for playfulness, Cedar mysterious, Turquoise quietness, Raven fierceness, I may have to get more Cobalt. The sustainable package all makes it Tres. Makes me feel good about help reduction destruction of mother earth”. We couldn’t agree more!
This set includes:
3 SUSTAIN Eyes Eyeshadows:
Plum - a romantic deep purple with a taupe tint
Turquoise Green - a beautiful mixture of pale blue and deep green
Cobalt Blue - a vibrant blue pigment with a glossy finish
2 SUSTAIN Eyes Eyeliners:
Raven Black - a deep black, ultra creamy makeup bag essential
Cedar Brown - a warm deep brown, smooth gliding neutral
Glide SUSTAIN Eyeliner and Eyeshadow Pencils across the lash line and eyelid to your preferred thickness. Achieve an impeccable clean line or blend out with the touch of your finger to complete your look. This collection of eyeliner and eyeshadow pencils delivers rich, powerful pigments that glide on with ease. This product allows you to add as much or as little colour as you like to complete a striking new look.
10% of our profits are donated to Shannen’s Dream and the Caring Society.When you purchase Cheekbone Beauty products you help ensure Canadian Indigenous youth receive equal-opportunity education.
Ah-Shí Beauty - This is My Beauty
Ah-Shí Beauty was founded in 2012 and is Indigenous and Black owned and operated. Products from the luxury skincare and cosmetic line are cruelty-free, hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic, and paraben-free. After six years of building the brand, Ah-Shí Beauty opened its first storefront in July of 2018 in Window Rock, AZ on the Diné Nation and also has a beauty studio and gift shop in Gallup, NM. For the first time in history, there is a beauty brand that operates proudly and successfully both in and near a tribal community.
Ah-Shi Beauty has everything a Goddess+ could need from cosmetics to skincare and a hair and body line coming soon. The Ah-Shí Beauty Skin Care line is botanical based and is “gentle, uncomplicated and extremely effective.” The cosmetics line uses the highest standard of pigments and ingredients that will make the color pop! I personally enjoyed watching the Ah-Shí Beauty Channel to see these products in all their glory!
Our favorite? Foundation Stx are a It’s a Medium to Full coverage, creamy formula, long wearing foundation with a lightweight texture that even out skin tone and helps create a flawless look. Ah Shí has much more to offer than just beauty products. Coffee, clothes, candles, tees you name it, they’ve got it! They also have the first cosmetic beauty shop on the Dinè Rez!
The Lip Bar
Just A Tint 3-in-1 Tinted Skin Conditioner BEIGE BOMBSHElL + Set the Tone Finishing Powder
If foundation isn’t your jam, we LOVE the Lip Bar’s 3 in 1 tinted skin conditioner. They also have an amazing $13 (YES $13?!) compact finishing powder. The name says it all! They have an amazing range of lip and beauty products. Lip Bar also has a helpful complexion test to help you pick the right foundation and powder shades. They also have a list of brands and colors that you could input to find your shade. AND, if you order a shade and it’s the wrong color they will hook you up with one of their Makeup Artists to help choose the right color to exchange it for. I first came across the Lip Bar 6 years at the US Social Forum, they had a cute mini bus lip bar store. Since they emerged with more product, a flagship store in Detroit and you can find their products at Target!!! They just celebrated their 9th year anniversary and are a major inspiration!
Huetzca Health Skin Care
Huetzca Health is a remarkable Unisex, vegan, Chicago made, medicinal botanical-infused skin health line. The Huetzca Health line is elegantly formulated for effective products composed of exquisite seed oils and medicinal herb infused compounds. Owner and formulator Maria Rubio Montiel, was raised with Mesoamerican folk medicine and continued her passion for herbal medicine and traditional medicine by completing the Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine program at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine.
Huetzca Health is committed to the redistribution of wealth to support Indigenous, Black, POC, Femme, Queer, Trans, and Women either through direct contribution or via donations to organizations.
Tlahuilli (lah-wee-lee) Exfoliant | Cleansing Dust: Glowing Complexion + Yectenehua (yeck-teh-neh-wah) Multi-Use Oil
In the Nahuatl language, Tlahuilli (lah-wee-lee) translates to “light” like luminous or glowing not dainty. Tlahuill Dust is a game-changing effective, gentle & non-irritating cleanser & exfoliant. This gentle cleanser and exfoliant softens skin, soothes redness and dryness – brightening overall complexion without being abrasive or harsh. This Cleansing Dust is gentle enough for everyday use for all skin types for a well-nourished, glowing complexion. The terpenes found in lavender are purported to have anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal effects. The Colloidal oatmeal & flaxseed: soothe irritation and is especially great for dry, flaky, parched skin.
Yectenehua (yeck-teh-neh-wah) Multi-Use Oil
In the Nahuatl language, Yectenehua (yeck-teh-neh-wah) translates “To bless, to sanctify” as in, bless yourself and the memory of those who came before you while you nourish your cells for immediate and future health. Yectenehua Muti-Use Hair | Body Oil is a medium weight oil that’s a nutrient-dense full meal for the skin. This nourishing and softening whole body use moisturizing oil doubles as a hair and scalp oil then triples into massage oil. ALL THE THINGS! Yectenehua is ideal for those concerned with redness, dullness, dryness, discolorations, scarring, and irritations. The Oat Oil: Nourishes while softening rough and irritated skin. Oat oil also calms sensitive skin. Paired with Passion fruit oil this Ultra lightweight and fast-absorbing is perfect for deep hydration.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
Quw’utsun Made
Quw’utsun Made’s Rosewater Nettle Mist is refreshing and rejuvenating! One spritz will zap you in the goddess/god that you are! An organic mixture of organic rosewater aloe and nettle extract cleanses and tones skin while balancing the pH. This multipurpose spray is for all skin types and can also be used on dry scalp and hair as well!
Quw’utsun Made is an apothecary that combines ancestral knowledge & Northwest Native plant extracts. They have a wide range of medicines to get your skin in check. We’re always excited to see what they’ve got brewing. Check out their collabo candle with our sisters at B. Yellowtail! Q made reminds us that our skin care is our self care. May the force be with you when trying to cop this rosewater nettle mist, it flies off the shelf!
Winston Paul
If we could buy every bag from Winston Paul we would! We are obsessed with the style and size of these makeup bags. You know Hermione Granger's bag bottomless bag? These makeup bags are like that. Winston Paul is a sibling dream team. Calandra and her brother Winston make sure to provide the highest quality bags, jewelry and clothing. All products are handcrafted and one of a kind. A percentage of Winston Paul’s profits go to mutual aid relief in their hometown of Dáʼákʼeh Halání aka Many Farms, AZ. We had the great privilege of working with Winston Paul in our fashion spread, peep it at: indigenousgoddessgang.com/wpcontemporary.
Sanrio
Kuromi Sparkle Silicone Makeup Applicator $5
Applying makeup has never been so easy or supercute! Use the Kuromi Sparkle Silicone Makeup Applicator wet or dry to pick up foundation, simply wash with warm water when finished.
Fourth World Farm
Pinon Salve
Fourth World Farm is a badass multi generational farm based in Mancos, CO that works with indigenous communities across the Southwest. They're inspiring work focuses on re-Indigenizing landscape, cultivating place, nourishing possibilities, and the emergent ecology between the Indigenous territories, Taw'toykyang and Dibe Nitsaa. This farm works to relearn and reintroduce local plants, herbs and medicines, to the food palate and medicine cabinet. Each winter they create “Winter Food and Medicine Boxes” through a subscription program. As the seasons change so does the cuisine. Through forging locally and preservation stashes, everything included in the boxes is harvested over the course of the last year, and three states (CO, AZ, and NM). This box subscription is uniquely crafted and includes goodies like Fire Roasted Prickly Pear Lemonade, Tanè'skááni Melon from winter preservation stashes, Chicken Rojo and Dinè Gray Squash w/Green Chile tamales, or a soup mix with wild carrot, steamed Diné corn desert onion, salt bush and chile de Arbol. Everything is harvested over the course of the last year, and between three states (CO, AZ, and NM). Oh and did I mention that Chef Carlos Baca is the one chefing up the menu of these wholesome super Indigenous food boxes?!
Each box also includes a salve or healing balm that is also locally harvested and filled with medicinal oils. Gretchen brews up medicines that and focuses on remedies to keep these plant medicines effective, accessible, and relevant.
As always, we encourage supporting your local farmers! Whether it’s at your local farmers market or through share boxes. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of "shares" to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Folks Interested purchase a share (aka a "membership" or a "subscription") and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season. Share members pay up front for the whole season and the farmers do their best to provide an abundant box of produce each week. Farm to table, local organic produce!
“May we find healing in the depth of beauty, strength, generosity, and wisdom the land holds.”
#SchoolsNOTPrisons!
#SchoolsNotPrisons is contributing to a growing movement for shifting public spending from punishment to education and creating solidarity among communities on the frontlines of ending mass incarceration. Since 2016, #SchoolsNotPrisons has reached millions of people and connected hundreds of artists with grassroots, youth-serving organizations across the United States. #SchoolsNotPrisons supports local, grassroots campaigns that are creating a new vision of safety centered on health, healing and investing in people. SNP has worked on bills in the California Legislature that proposes creative ways to fund early childhood education: imposing a tax on companies that do business with California’s prison systems. Brilliant right? Social science has consistently found data on education achievement — particularly drop-out rates — to be a strong indicator of who ends up behind bars. Other factors, such as income, mental health and substance abuse, all figure prominently as drivers of crime. But schools, like prisons, are a major budget item for most state, making it convenient to compare the two. #SchoolsNotPrisons promotes non-violence and activism by young people and their families. They encourage voting as a key for communities committed to safety, justice and peace to join in solidarity to make change. The slogans vary: “Books not bars, “schools not prisons,” even “educate not incarcerate”, No matter which way you say, we’re for it!