Christine Makeup in Pakistan: Brand Guide, Best Products & Prices (2026)

Christine makeup has been sitting on Pakistani dressing tables for decades. Long before imported palettes and online hauls, the brand's baked powders and shimmer pots were sold from beauty counters in Lahore, Karachi and every small-town bazaar in between. The brand is now having a second life online, and for good reason. The products hold up, almost everything costs under PKR 3,000, and the shade ranges are built around Pakistani skin tones rather than adapted for them as an afterthought. This guide covers what Christine Cosmetics actually is, which products are worth your money, current prices at Yellow Pink, and how to pick shades that will suit you when you order online.

What is Christine Cosmetics? A short brand story

Christine is a homegrown Pakistani cosmetics brand. It built its reputation the slow way, through physical beauty shops and word of mouth, years before e-commerce existed in Pakistan. Ask an aunty about her bridal makeup kit from the 90s and there is a fair chance a Christine product was in it.

The brand is best known for its baked products. Baked powders and eyeshadows are made by baking a liquid formula on terracotta discs, which gives the finished product that domed, marbled surface and a smooth, buildable colour payoff. It is the same technique used by far more expensive Italian-made brands, done locally at local prices.

Because Christine grew up serving Pakistani customers, its shades lean warm and golden. That matters more than most people realise. Many imported powders and highlighters are developed for cooler, pinker skin and can look grey or ashy on medium and deep South Asian tones. Christine's range starts from our skin and works outward, which is why the powders in particular have such a loyal following.

Christine Baked Powder: the product that made the brand famous (PKR 850)

If you buy one Christine product, make it the baked powder. It is the brand's signature and one of the most repurchased face products in the country. On Yellow Pink, the Christine Baked Powder in shade 828 sells for PKR 850 and has well over a thousand customer reviews behind it.

The powder does two jobs. Used dry with a fluffy brush, it sets foundation and knocks down shine without flattening your base, and the finish reads airbrushed rather than powdery. Used damp with a sponge, it builds to medium coverage on its own, so on light-makeup days it can replace foundation entirely. In Karachi humidity or a long wedding function, that staying power is the whole point.

Which baked powder shade should you pick?

Christine numbers its baked powder shades rather than naming them. Shade 828, the one stocked at Yellow Pink, is a warm medium that suits the broad middle of Pakistani skin tones, roughly the range that matches "medium" or "sand" in imported foundation lines. Two practical rules help when buying online. First, match your jawline and neck, not the back of your hand, since hands are usually darker than faces. Second, if you are choosing between two shades for setting powder, take the closer match rather than the lighter one. A powder that is too light turns grey in photos, especially with flash.

Christine Velvet Eyeshadow Palette: 28 colours for PKR 2,200

The Christine Velvet Eyeshadow Palette gives you 28 shades in one palette for PKR 2,200 at Yellow Pink, marked down from PKR 3,700. On a per-shade basis that is under PKR 80 a colour, which makes it one of the cheapest ways in Pakistan to build a complete eyeshadow wardrobe.

The formula is creamy and blendable, with a mix of everyday mattes and stronger shimmers. The pigment builds fast, so pick colour up with a light hand and add in layers rather than packing it on in one go. For a beginner, the useful test of any big palette is whether you can do a full look from it: a soft matte in the crease, a mid-tone on the lid, a shimmer on the centre, and a deep shade for the outer corner and lower lash line. This palette passes that test with room to spare, and the warm browns, coppers and burnt oranges in it are exactly the shades that flatter brown eyes and warm skin.

If eyeshadow is new territory for you, our eye makeup for beginners guide walks through the basic technique step by step.

Christine Highlighter 4-in-1 Palette (PKR 2,599)

The Christine Highlighter 4-in-1 Palette costs PKR 2,599 and packs four highlight shades into one pan, from a pale champagne to a deeper golden bronze. The spread of tones is the smart part. Most single highlighters are made in one universal champagne that reads chalky on deeper skin. Here you can use each shade alone or swirl your brush across two or more to mix a custom tone that sits naturally on your skin.

Placement makes or breaks highlighter. Keep it to the high points where light lands anyway: the tops of the cheekbones, the brow bone, a small touch on the bridge of the nose and the cupid's bow. Applied with a small tapered brush and a light hand, the finish is a glow. Applied with a big brush across half the cheek, it turns into glitter, so go slowly. For mature or textured skin, spritz the brush with a little setting spray first: Rivaj UK's makeup fixer spray is PKR 520 at Yellow Pink and doubles as a finishing spray for the whole face.

How to pick Christine shades when buying online

Shade matching without a physical counter is easier than it sounds if you work through it in order.

• Find your undertone first. Look at the veins on your inner wrist in daylight. Greenish veins suggest a warm undertone, bluish veins suggest cool, and a mix suggests neutral. Most Pakistani skin sits in warm or neutral-warm territory, which is the range Christine designs for.
• Check yourself in natural light. Indoor bulbs shift colour badly. A mirror near a window at midday tells you the truth about your skin tone and about how a product looks on it.
• Match powder to your neck and jaw. Faces are often lighter than necks. Matching the jawline keeps everything looking like one piece.
• For eyeshadow and highlighter, err warm. Golds, coppers and bronzes flatter warm undertones far more reliably than silvers and icy pinks.

Is Christine worth it next to imported makeup?

An honest answer: it depends on the product category. For baked powders, eyeshadows and highlighters, Christine competes properly with imports that cost three to five times more. The baked powder at PKR 850 does the same daily job as imported setting powders in the PKR 3,000 to 5,000 range, and the shade suitability for local skin is often better, not worse.

Where imports still hold an edge is complex liquid formulas. A product like the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Foundation, which Yellow Pink stocks at PKR 5,000, involves formulation technology a budget pressed powder is not trying to match. A sensible approach for most people is a mixed kit: spend on one good base product if flawless foundation matters to you, and let Christine cover powder, eyes and glow. A full Christine trio from this guide, powder, 28-shade palette and highlighter, comes to PKR 5,649 in total, less than many single imported palettes.

Ordering Christine makeup at Yellow Pink

All three Christine products above are in stock at Yellow Pink with delivery across Pakistan and cash on delivery, so you pay when the parcel arrives. Everything is sourced authentic, which matters with a popular local brand, since copied versions of the baked powder do circulate in bazaars and the fakes are chalkier and patchier than the real thing. If a price somewhere else looks too good to be true for a product this affordable to begin with, it usually is.

The bottom line

Christine earned its place in Pakistani makeup bags honestly: good baked formulas, warm shade ranges made for local skin, and prices that leave room in the budget. Start with the baked powder at PKR 850, add the 28-shade palette if you want to play with eye looks, and finish with the 4-in-1 highlighter for functions and photos. Browse the full range in our eye makeup and face makeup sections, authentic stock with cash on delivery across Pakistan.

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