This launch was four years in the making. We created Pound Cake because we saw a marginalizing industry that not only refused to include us in their beauty standard but also in their product creation. We poured our blood, sweat, and tears into making something never before seen and yet so long overdue: five liquid lipsticks made for five different skin and lip tones. It is from the ashes of a destroyed standard that we give you this.
Lipstick shows up differently on different lip tones. In essence, this means someone with pink lips and someone with deep brown lips wearing the same lipstick will achieve different results. Our solution? Approach all products like foundation.
20+ revisions, 40+ trials, a spot in Glossier’s exclusive Black-Owned Business Cohort, and an Allure Best of Beauty Award later, we have finally debuted our long-awaited line of Cake Batters. These EXTREMELY opaque and vibrant créme-matte liquid lipsticks are not only vegan, clean, and cruelty-free but were also made for your skin and lip tone - deep brown, pink, and everything in between.
A red lip is bold, empowered, and filled with desire and passion. It’s life, it’s blood, it’s energy. A person with a red lip is absolutely undeniable.
I created Pound Cake because I saw the need for a revolution in how cosmetic companies produce and market color cosmetics. There was a tweet that went viral a few years ago calling on the beauty industry to make lipsticks that show up as advertised on all skin tones. This tweet spoke to me because I too have always battled with lipsticks looking different on me than expected (if they show up at all). Cosmetic companies don’t understand that it is not only skin tone but also lip tone that affects the way products show up on people. After realizing this, I fought hard to build this offering to us.
