Rihanna, who teased Fenty Beauty fans with a new makeup launch, has revealed that her latest innovations are inspired by her hit Diamonds. On Friday, Fenty unveiled two new diamond-inspired makeup products on Instagram: a diamond bomb lip gloss and a highlighter.
The two products are set to drop on September 7 at Fenty Beauty, Sephora, and Harvey Nichols. The lip gloss is described by the brand as a "shimmery wash of pearl that’s like a dewy highlight for your lips."
The highlighter is said to be a " show-stopping, crystal-coated sparkle” that is a “jelly-powder formula melts into your skin like butter and will have you looking like you're dripping in diamonds," giving you “a colorless, ultra sparkly sheen that looks beautiful applied as a highlighter on the face or on the body."
Both products will be available online and in stores next week. Fenty shared an Instagram video of the two products, showing how the gloss has an iridescent shimmer and can be used as a highlighter or body glitter.
Last year, Fenty Beauty was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017. Rihanna developed the line with Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessey (LVMH), signing a deal in 2016 for $10 million. The products have been highly-acclaimed for featuring a wide range of shades for all skin tones and colors. Other launches have been criticized for not living up to the standards set by Fenty Beauty, namely Kim Kardashian West's line KKW Beauty, Tarte's Tape Shape Foundation, and Benefit's Hello Happy foundation.
Fenty's Stunna Lip Paint, a red lipstick launched last November, was also widely praised. In a review at BuzzFeed News, Leticia Miranda wrote, "For centuries, makeup, and particularly lipstick, has been used as a way to define society and women’s pleasure, play, and sexuality. These are the elements Rihanna embodies — pleasure, play, costume, excess, drama, sexuality, rebellion. And now, Rihanna has made her mark in this evolving story about makeup and red lipstick by creating a color designed to work on all skin tones."
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Malia McAndrew, an associate professor of history at John Carroll University, added that “Lipstick is the most artificial of the cosmetics. Wearing red lipstick is a very bold, very assertive move. The woman who does that is asserting her authority to be in a public space, chooses who she wants to date, chooses to keep her wages. Red lipstick was a marker for these women.”
