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Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato Reunite for Rare Beauty Blush Bundle

Rare Beauty launches the $50 Delena Soft Pinch Blush Bundle on October 28, reuniting Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato in a YouTube-nostalgia campaign themed on their two-decade friendship.

By Daniel Okafor2 min read355 words

Counter notes

  1. The Delena Soft Pinch Blush Bundle launches October 28 at rarebeauty.com for $50.
  2. The bundle includes two shades of Soft Pinch Liquid Blush and the Soft Pinch Blush Brush.
  3. Gomez and Lovato's friendship dates back more than two decades, per Rare Beauty.
  4. The campaign is titled "Still Making Each Other Blush."
Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato Went Full YouTube for Their New Blush Collab
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Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato star together in a new Rare Beauty campaign, "Still Making Each Other Blush," launching the Delena Soft Pinch Blush Bundle on October 28 at rarebeauty.com for $50.

The bundle contains two shades of the brand's Soft Pinch Liquid Blush plus the Soft Pinch Blush Brush. Rare Beauty says the campaign celebrates a friendship between the two stars that dates back more than two decades, from their Disney Channel years in the late 2000s.

How does the campaign look?

The promotion leans hard on nostalgia. In an Instagram Reel, Gomez and Lovato recreate the casual, camera-facing energy of their old YouTube vlogs — the horizontal-video era that made their friendship a fan obsession among tween viewers watching the pair giggle through interviews and bedroom-filmed clips. The production values have improved since 2008, but the format is deliberately familiar: part beauty campaign, part time capsule.

Both stars framed the reunion in sentimental terms in a press release.

"Being on set together felt like we were back in our old bedrooms making YouTube videos and playing with makeup," Lovato said.

Gomez echoed the sentiment: "Coming together for this campaign was a beautiful reminder of [our] history and a chance to celebrate who we are today. One and the same… always."

What does this change for buyers?

The product details are straightforward. One bundle, $50, two liquid blush shades, one brush, sold through the brand's own site from October 28. Fans who followed the pair's friendship — the so-called "Delena" pairing — get a bundle explicitly named after it, which is the clearest sign Rare Beauty is trading on the reunion rather than the makeup alone.

For Rare Beauty, the campaign extends a playbook Gomez has used since founding the brand: pairing accessible pricing with personal storytelling. Here the storytelling is borrowed from a shared pop-culture history that predates the brand by more than a decade.

The October 28 launch gives the brand a nostalgia-driven entry into the holiday gifting season, with two Disney-era stars selling to the now-adult audience that grew up with them.

via cna.st (Original)

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