Pimple patches were pretty boring before Starface came along. Now, your favorite celebrities are constantly wearing them on their acne (Young Miko, Justin Bieber, PinkPantheress, Anne Hathaway—and that’s just the stars’ posting about it!). It’s kind of a status symbol to have a zit on your face now. Who woulda thought?
Choosing the right color to stick on your pimple, though, that’s the biggest question these days. There’s the Earth pack filled with neutrals, the blue pack featuring Hydrostars with blemish-fighting salicylic acid, the party pack for bright neons, and of course, the original yellow Hydro-Stars. But now? You don’t have to stock up on a zillion sets to get all the colors you want. Introducing: The Custom Pack from Starface, a way to fully customize your own pack of Hydro-Stars in whatever shades you desire.
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In total, there are 20 shade options, including all of our favorites from previous packs (like the black and white, bright red, sky blue, light pink, and more), plus eight new ones. There’s Slime (lime green), Goldfish (orange), Mist (gray), Fig (maroon), Neptune (cobalt blue), Honeycomb (mustard yellow), Deep Sea (navy), and Lagoon (teal).
Along with the custom pack launch is a new campaign. And the faces behind all of these new colors are equally as cool. You’ll catch musician (and Cosmo girl!) Beabadoobee, actress May Hong, skateboarder Zion Effs, F1 driver Alexandra Hainer, influencer Claire Drake. But Starface also tapped a customer—Matilda, an NYU student—to model the new shades.
Your custom pack can include up to four shades of your choice. While bag charms, keychains, and customized airbrush tees are taking over fashion, why not turn your acne care into an accessory too? It’s also only $12.99, which is way cheaper than any customized product I’ve ever bought for myself.
Need I add, Starface is consistently on our best-of lists for acne care. They’ve won multiple Cosmo Acne Awards and were named one of the best pimple patches by our staff. We love the Hydro-Stars. They’re easy to pop on over a zit, stay a long time without lifting up, and help soak up excess oils while looking v cute.
What would I put in my custom pack, you ask? Well, as a Cosmo editor, I’d probably go with Cherry Tomato and Black. Red and black are just classic, no matter what you’re wearing. But Jelly Bean and Slime really make sense. Pink and green—the colors of a good cosmopolitan, after all. With 20 shades, though, the world is my oyster.
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Beth Gillette is the beauty editor at Cosmopolitan with more than seven years of experience researching, writing, and editing skincare stories.
Beth Gillette is the beauty editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers skincare, makeup, hair, nails, and more across digital and print. She can generally be found in bright eyeshadow furiously typing her latest feature or hemming and hawing about a new product you "have to try." Prior to Cosmopolitan, she wrote and edited beauty content as an Editor at The Everygirl for four years. Follow her on Instagram for makeup selfies and a new hair 'do every few months.
