DUBAI: Huda Kattan, the US-Iraqi founder of Huda Beauty, this week launched a new collaboration with US-based Palestinian singer Saint Levant to support Palestine.
The partnership introduces a new shade of the brand’s popular Faux Filler Lip Oil, with proceeds going to organizations that support Palestinian agriculture and cultural preservation.
Named “Kalamantina,” the shade references Saint Levant’s song of the same name, released earlier this year. The lip oil also features a clementine scent.
“This is for the homeland,” Kattan wrote on the brand’s Instagram page, alongside orange and Palestinian flag emojis. “In honor of this collaboration, Huda Beauty will make a donation to organizations supporting Palestinian agriculture and cultural preservation.”
Both Kattan and Saint Levant, born Marwan Abdelhamid in Jerusalem, have been hinting at this week’s launch through a series of Instagram posts.
In the clips, they danced to Saint Levant’s track “Kalamantina” and posed together next to a vintage car filled with clementines. In another shot, they held clementines labeled with fruit stickers that read, “Grown by Huda n’ Saint Levant.”
In the video, the music sensation wore a necklace featuring a map of Palestine, paired with a white tank top and denim jeans.
Meanwhile, Kattan appeared in a white off-the-shoulder lace dress with long, flared sleeves and a fitted silhouette. She completed the look with silver hoop earrings, oversized white sunglasses and a white headscarf, a nostalgic, vintage-inspired ensemble that matched the retro car and clementine-filled set.
Both Saint Levant and Kattan have been outspoken in their support for Palestine and have used their platforms to raise awareness about the war in Gaza.
Saint Levant, whose mother is French Algerian and father is Palestinian Serbian, performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California in 2024. During his set, he addressed the war, saying: “Coachella, my name is Saint Levant and I was born in Jerusalem and raised in Gaza … as I hope all of you are aware, the people of Gaza have been undergoing a brutal, brutal genocide. And the people of Palestine have been undergoing a brutal occupation for the past 75 years.”
Kattan, meanwhile, has regularly shared footage and updates from Gaza on her social media accounts to amplify awareness. In 2023, she announced a $1 million donation to two humanitarian organizations working in the region: Human Appeal and Doctors Without Borders.
