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Catkin

Catkin is a Chinese cosmetics brand founded in 2007 that combines chinoiserie style with modern makeup, offering skincare-grade, cruelty-free, and vegan color cosmetics.

Last updated October 7, 2026

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Overview

Catkin is a cosmetics brand that was proudly born in 2007 in China. It combines chinoiserie style with fashion colors and draws on oriental cultural heritage, incorporating modern aesthetics and technologies to create makeup products that are skincare-grade, cruelty-free, and vegan. The brand advocates a spirit of "beautiful feminism" and encourages women to explore different beauty and challenge themselves. Its product range includes lipsticks, lip balms, and cushion foundations.

History

Catkin was proudly born in 2007 in China. The brand combines chinoiserie style with fashion colors and draws wisdom of beauty from rich oriental cultural heritage, incorporating modern aesthetics design and modern technologies to create makeup products that are skincare-grade, cruelty-free, and vegan of the Modern Chinoiserie. Catkin states its goal is to make borderless aesthetics a kind of life. The brand advocates breaking away from the stereotype that "Women dress up for people they like" and emphasizes the spirit of "beautiful feminism," encouraging women to challenge themselves and explore different beauty.

  • 2007

    Catkin is founded in China, positioning itself as a Modern Chinoiserie makeup brand.

  • Launch of the Rouge Carving Lipstick, described as an ultra-pigmented semi-matte lipstick with up to 24 hours of hydration, available in 22 shades.

  • Launch of the Moonlight Hydrating Lip Balm, a pH-activated color-changing lip balm available in 22 shades.

  • Launch of the Summer Palace Moisture Cover BB Cream Cushion Foundation, inspired by Cantonese embroidery from the Summer Palace.

  • Launch of the Panda Land Coverage Cushion Foundation BB Cream, available in 6 colors.

  • Launch of the Dreamworld Carving Love Poems Lipstick, available in 7 colors and as a 3-piece set.

Products and positioning

Humanistic Beauty Without Borders; Modern Chinoiserie; skincare-grade, cruelty-free, vegan makeup

  • Rouge Carving Lipstick

    An ultra-pigmented, flawless semi-matte finish lipstick that provides all-day color and up to 24 hours of hydration while smoothing lips. Available in 22 shades.

  • Moonlight Hydrating Lip Balm

    A pretty lightweight lip balm that keeps lips well hydrated, luscious, and nourished throughout the day. Made with plant-derived squalane, phytosterols, jojoba seed oil, meadowfoam seed oil, mint essential oil, and vitamin E; without parabens, alcohol, synthetic fragrances, mineral oil, or hormones, and not tested on animals. Available in 22 shades.

  • Summer Palace Moisture Cover BB Cream Cushion Foundation

    A lightweight, full-coverage, moisturizing BB cream cushion foundation with a natural finish. Contains Herba Centella Extract and Golden Seaweed Extract to improve skin, minimizing pores, lines, redness, and uneven tone. Design inspired by the Cantonese embroidery screen "Birds Paying Homage to Feng Huang" in the Le Shou Hall of the Summer Palace. Available in 4 colors.

  • Panda Land Coverage Cushion Foundation BB Cream

    A cushion foundation BB cream available in 6 colors.

  • Flawless Glow Cushion Nourishing Foundation

    A nourishing cushion foundation available in 2 colors.

  • Dreamworld Carving Love Poems Lipstick

    A lipstick available in 7 colors.

  • Summer Palace Carving Lipstick

    A lipstick available in 3 colors.

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