News & Updates

🌱 World Vegan Day — A Vision of Compassion and Harmony Today, we celebrate World Vegan Day  a moment to pause, reflect, and honour the path of compassion that guides everything we do at VE Cosmetics. For us, veganism isn’t just a label or a marketing term; it’s a commitment to peace, empathy, and conscious creation. It’s the belief that beauty should never come at the cost of another being’s suffering human or animal alike. On this day, we imagine a world in balance: 🌿 Where the Earth is respected, not exploited.🐇 Where animals live freely, not as commodities.💚 Where kindness is woven into every choice from what we eat to what we wear to what we put on our skin. Every palette, lipstick, and potion we create is born from that vision vegan, cruelty-free, and crafted with compassion at every step. So today, and every day, we celebrate the small acts of rebellion that shape a kinder future. Whether you’re fully plant-based or simply choosing cruelty-free beauty, you’re part of a growing wave of conscious change. Together, we can make compassion the default  and harmony the spell that binds us all. 🌍✨ 🖤 VE Cosmetics Makeup so good, it must be witchcraft.    

🖤 VE Cosmetics – Finalist for Best Online Small Business 2023 🖤 We’re thrilled to share that VE Cosmetics was named a finalist in the Screen Stars category at the 2023 E-Factor Small Business Awards — celebrating the best online small businesses in the region. As a gothic, vegan, and cruelty-free brand born from rebellion and built online, this recognition means the world. Our digital coven has always been our power — a space where we can connect with likeminded souls, raise awareness about unethical industry practices, and offer beauty with backbone. These awards shine a much-needed light on the passion, grit, and magick that goes into running small independent businesses — and we’re honoured to stand among so many other incredible local entrepreneurs. 🕯️ From our haunted lab to your screen — thank you for being part of the journey. #VECosmetics #ScreenStarsAward #SmallBusinessFinalist #EthicalBeauty #WitchOwned #OnlineBusinessMagic #CrueltyFreeCosmetics #GothicBeauty #RebelWithACause

🖤 VE Cosmetics at The House of Lords – A Pledge Against Bloodsports 🖤 This past week has been surreal in the best way — VE Cosmetics was invited to the House of Lords to publicly pledge our stance against bloodsports. But let’s be clear: this isn’t just about “not hunting.”It’s about refusing to align with any company, brand, or system that profits from or promotes cruelty — whether through hunting, shooting, or animal fighting. This is a zero-tolerance vow. A mark of ethical rebellion. We proudly signed the Business Without Bloodsports pledge alongside The League Against Cruel Sports, solidifying what we’ve stood for since day one: no animal should ever suffer for profit, power, or pleasure. As a vegan-owned, witch-run brand, we’ve always used our platform to advocate for more than just lipstick. This is about justice, ethics, and accountability — for animals, for the environment, and for every conscious consumer who deserves better. You’ll now see the official pledge badge displayed on our site — a sigil of our continued commitment to cruelty-free living and fearless transparency. 🕯️ Beauty shouldn’t come with blood on its hands. And with VE Cosmetics — it never will.   #VECosmetics #HouseOfLords #AntiBloodsports #CrueltyFreeAlways #WitchOwned #VeganBeauty #GothicEthics #TheLeagueAgainstCruelSports #BeautyWithoutBlood

🖤 Giving Back This Yule – A Little Magick Shared 🖤 At VE Cosmetics, we’ve never just been about makeup — we’re about making a difference. Real beauty is rooted in compassion, and this Yule, we had the honour of giving a little magick back. This year, we donated over £1,000 worth of stock to families who were struggling to put gifts under the tree. In a world that often feels cold and unjust, being able to bring even a flicker of warmth, joy, and relief has been the greatest gift we could ask for. We know it’s not much in the grand scheme of things — but if it helped ease even a little bit of worry, then it was worth every spell, swipe, and sleepless night. 🕯️ Thank you for supporting this brand and allowing us to pay it forward.Wishing you a Blessed Yule and a New Year filled with light, strength, and shadow-kissed kindness. #VECosmetics #YuleBlessings #GothicHeart #GiveBackWithMagick #VeganBeauty #WitchOwned #CrueltyFreeKindness #BeautyWithPurpose #EthicalGlamour

Introducing our second collaboration with Cradle Of Filth From poisonous Metallers Cradle Of Filth and VE Cosmetics comes a collaborative make-up palette forged in the very fires of Hell itself.⁣ Thematically represented by various (and nefarious) COF album titles, each titular shade coffined therein embodies the essence of those attributed musical canvasses, granting the wearer instant bewitchment and an achingly beautiful countenance to boot.⁣ The grotesqueries of evil never looked so good! ⁣ Available for bringing glamour to your human mask here ⁣ ⁣

Following on from your nomination acceptance, we have now completed our research stage within the Global Vegan Awards hosted by LUXlife, I am thrilled to email you with our highly anticipated results – some good news through recent crazy times! VE Cosmetics are among this years’ Global Vegan champions and have been awarded: Most Innovative Independent Vegan Make-Up Brand - UK   Read it here

At VE Cosmetics, our decision to use only synthetic mica was never about convenience , it was about conscience. This is a story of ethics, transparency, and choosing compassion even when it meant growing more slowly.

🕯️ Supporting Our Local Women’s Refuge — Beauty with Purpose At VE Cosmetics, compassion isn’t just a word — it’s part of our ritual. We recently donated a selection of eyeshadow palettes and skincare to our local Women’s Refuge, offering a little colour, care, and confidence to both the residents and staff.Extras were also included for them to raffle or sell, helping to raise much-needed funds for the ongoing support of survivors of domestic violence. Beauty can be powerful — a moment of self-worth, a reminder of strength, or a small spark of normality in a world that’s been unkind. It’s our hope that these donations bring comfort and empowerment where they’re most needed. If you’d like to help or learn more about the incredible work the refuge does, please consider visiting their page and supporting their fundraising efforts here. 🖤 Because magick means nothing if it doesn’t make the world a little kinder.

At VE Cosmetics, we believe compassion is the truest form of magick. We’ve recently donated several boxes of our eyeshadow palettes to Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue, who work tirelessly to care for injured, orphaned, and displaced animals along our local coastline. These palettes will be sold to raise vital funds for the rescue’s ongoing work helping them provide medical care, food, and safe release for the many creatures who find their way to their doors each year. If you’d like to support or learn more about their incredible work, please visit Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue here. 🖤 Because beauty should always give something back — to people, to animals, and to the world we share.

We can finally announce our partnership with Cradle of Filth and our collaboration that created "Deadly Nightshades". The shade are based o the artwork for each album Dusk: Shimmer blue Damnation: Matte Dark Teal Cryptoriana: Matte dark grey based blue Nymphetamine: Shimmer orange Enslave: Matte Yellow! Vempire: Rich metallic gold Darkly: Black (matte base with fine glitter) Cruelty:  Matte Blood red Midian: Metallic deep purple Available in store now 

Indie Beauty Awards Finalist at the Indie Business Awards

This palette consists of 15 matte and shimmer shades all which represent the magestic Fox. Vibrant oranges, reds and yellows make up this beautiful palette, and it's all for a good cause. A collaboration between VE cosmetics and Stay Close Clothing, it raises funds for Beds & Bucks Hunt Sabs. Each pallete sold, £6 will be donated to help stop fox hunting/Badger Baiting.

Best Vegan Cosmetics Provider! How amazing is that! 

Vegan makeup but not neutrals.....we like colour, and gothic bold tones. 

🖤 We Won! Best Product – Luxe Health & Beauty Awards 2017 🖤 We are beyond thrilled (and still a little in shock!) to announce that VE Cosmetics has won Best Product in the LUXE Health & Beauty Awards 2017. As a fiercely independent, vegan, and cruelty-free brand, this recognition means the world. Every potion we create is hand-crafted with purpose, performance, and principle — no shortcuts, no compromise, no animal testing ever. To be honoured among the best in beauty is not just a win for us — it’s a win for conscious consumers, ethical rebels, and anyone who believes that dark glamour and integrity can go hand in hand. Thank you to everyone who has supported our magickal little brand. This is only the beginning.🖤 #VECosmetics #LuxeBeautyAwards #BestProduct2017 #VeganMakeup #CrueltyFreeBeauty #GothicGlamour #WitchOwnedBrand

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