PETA-certified; parent Seed Beauty is cruelty-free, not a testing conglomerate
| Ingredient transparency | Not readable automatically (script-loaded or published as an image) |
| Ownership | ColourPop Cosmetics is owned in house by Seed Beauty, the manufacturing and brand incubation company founded by siblings Laura and John Nelson as an offshoot of their father's business, Spatz Laboratories. ColourPop was founded in 2014 and remains privately held by the Nelson family through Seed Beauty; the brand continues to trade through its own website, Ulta Beauty and Target. (Privately held under Seed Beauty) |
| Where made | Made in Oxnard, California, USA at Seed Beauty's facility. |
| Price | Budget |
| Cruelty free | Yes |
| Vegan | Partial |
| Organic | No |
| Certifications | PETA Beauty Without Bunnies: listed live as cruelty-free, with the page stating verbatim that the company ensures neither ingredients nor finished products are tested on animals, and that suppliers and third parties follow the same standard. No caveats appear on the page.; Leaping Bunny: no listing was found for the brand under any slug tested on the Leaping Bunny register; each attempt returned a genuine page not found result rather than a blocked or error page.; No Vegan Society Trademark or organic certification was found for any product; ColourPop's 'vegan and cruelty-free' marketing is a brand claim rather than a third party certified one, with zero products independently certified. |
| Sold in mainland China | ColourPop is PETA-certified cruelty-free and says it does not sell where animal testing is required by law, though its own site lists China among the countries it will ship to direct. |
| Palm oil | No public disclosure found. |
| Packaging | Plastic; limited recyclability |
| Good On You | No Good On You rating found. |
| EWG | Individual ColourPop products appear in EWG Skin Deep, but no brand-level score or EWG Verified listing was found. |
| External ratings | CFK verified; PETA certified |
| Lab tested | Not publicly disclosed |
| Clinical studies | Not published |
| Controversies | Parent Seed Beauty sued Coty, Kylie Jenner and KKW Beauty in 2020 for trade secret misappropriation over its digital-first model and formulations, settling later that year; the brand has also drawn criticism over product naming. |
| Caveat | ColourPop is owned by Seed Beauty, founded by siblings Laura and John Nelson, which also built Kylie Cosmetics and KKW Beauty; despite full vertical control of its supply chain the brand publishes no environmental disclosure at all. |
Claims made for this brand that could not be confirmed in a certifier's own register. A brand website is a claim, not a source.
No evidence was found to substantiate ColourPop as Leaping Bunny certified; only the PETA listing could be confirmed.
ColourPop is reported to have exited mainland Chinese physical retail in 2025 rather than never having been present there; either framing should note the brand does not currently sell through channels in mainland China that require animal testing.
ColourPop ownership by Seed Beauty and the Nelson family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColourPop_Cosmetics
PETA cruelty-free listing, read live https://crueltyfree.peta.org/company/colourpop-cosmetics/
Absence from Leaping Bunny register, checked live, genuine not found result https://www.leapingbunny.org/brand/colourpop
No Vegan Society Trademark match found on a direct search of the certifier's own site https://www.vegansociety.com/search/node/colourpop
Why there is no score: Site could not be read. No verdict is given. Neither a full ingredient read nor a check of the certifications against the certifiers own registers has been completed for this brand, so there is no basis for judging it either way. No score is published. No readable product listing could be found at https://colourpop.com, so the catalogue could not be enumerated. A manual product by product read has not yet been completed.
Last checked 22 July 2026.
Not yet independently verified. The certifications listed for this brand are as the brand states them. They have not yet been checked against the certifiers own registers, so they should be read as a claim rather than a confirmed fact.
Ingredients are not present as readable text on the product pages we checked: they appear to be loaded by script or published as an image. They could not be read, categorised or compared automatically, so this brand's formulas are not yet verified here.
We read and categorise every ingredient for brands whose full list is published as readable text. This one could not be read automatically, so its formulas are not yet verified here. A complete ingredient list published in readable text is what makes a clean claim checkable.