This Harry Potter star is launching a vegan & cruelty-free beauty subscription box

We loved her as Luna Lovegood, and we still love her now. Evanna Lynch, known for playing radish earring-wearing, The Quibbler-obsessed Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter franchise, is going to be launching a cruelty-free beauty subscription box later this year!

Despite remaining fairly low-key in all other respects, Lynch is a very passionate advocate of animal rights and a proud vegan who hosts a podcast called The Chickpeeps, which “explore(s), discuss(es) and unpick(s) the dilemmas faced by vegans in our quest to be more compassionate towards animals”. She’s also a big makeup fan, which is the main drive behind her launch.

Announcing on her Instagram that although makeup and animals are two of her favourite things, she is “trying to change” the way they intersect; namely, in the way that animals are often used to test developing makeup products.

V happy to offer you beaut + stylish people the chance to win some clothing by my friends at @delikaterayne ? this isn’t a paid collaboration, I just believe it’s important to support independent, vegan designers who are changing the face of fashion and proving that you don’t need to exploit animals or compromise on ethics to enjoy fashion. To enter and possibly win one of these nice tops you just have to do 2 things… 1️⃣ Be following both my account and @delikaterayne 2️⃣ Leave a comment on this post with your favourite animal emoji such as ? and tag 3 of your friends. . Also, if you are in need of a cute new outfit pronto @delikaterayne are kindly offering 50% off these tops in blue, black and ivory for a week if you enter the code LOVEPUFF at checkout! . The competition is running for a week, aka next Wednesday so get your skates on!! (Oh and you should probs enter because this is the only giveaway I’m doing because taking pics of myself stresses me tf out ?) Good luck peeps ?? #vegan #animalfriendly #delikaterayne #ethicalfashion #crueltyfree #giveaway

A post shared by Evanna Lynch (@msevylynch) on Jun 20, 2018 at 2:47pm PDT

Earlier in April, Lynch teamed up with PETA for a project which documented the horrors faced by animals that are tested on by the beauty industry. In the video, titled “Make-Up Tutorial Video with a Bit of a Twist“, Lynch explained how cruelty-free makeup is still sometimes tested on animals.

Get this: she even “went under” the same tests that animals living in a lab undergo – like having faux skin-burning chemicals smeared on her face, and being “force-fed” a sludge-like substance.

Lynch has also revealed that the project will be a collaboration with a fairly under-the-radar brand, so watch this space for more updates!

Kanako Sugawara

Photo: Getty Images

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