Bobbi Brown x The Met Holiday 2026: Shades and European Prices
So, I did some sleuthing, and I found the Bobbi Brown x The Met Holiday 2026 collection in Europe.
The collection doesn’t appear to have officially launched in Europe yet, and I haven’t found it listed at the usual European retailers. What I did find is Bobbi Brown Austria’s test catalogue, where the Holiday products have already been loaded onto the site.
If you scroll through the catalogue, you can find the collection mixed in with everything else. Some of the products already have their own European product pages, while others can be added to your cart but don’t lead to a proper product page yet.
The site is also clearly unfinished, and there are some very strange prices elsewhere in the catalogue, so let’s tale the following info with a grain of salt for now. They may still change before the official launch!
Still, the products are there, which is a pretty good indication that Bobbi Brown x The Met Holiday 2026 is coming to Europe.
Now, let’s jump into it!
Have I told you guys that I used to work at the Bobbi Brown counter yet?
It wasn’t officially for Estée Lauder, but I worked for a company partnered with them, received the Bobbi basic training, and manned the counter.
Anyway, while working there, I fell in love with a lipstick from one of their holiday collections: Uber Nude. I still have it, and it is gorgeous. Gorgeous and irreplaceable.
And now Bobbi Brown is coming for me again, because this year's Holiday collection is a collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art! Including my all-time favorite painter: Monet.
I can already feel my heart getting broken again.
The line includes:
Brightening Blush
Mäda Primavesi — Gustav Klimt packaging
Blushed Peach + Blushed Burgundy — $52 each
Both shades new
8-Well Eyeshadow Palette
Landscape with Stars — Henri-Edmond Cross packaging
8 shades — $72
Limited-edition palette / new colour story
Luxe Shimmer Eyeshadow — Rose Illusion
Landscape with Stars — Henri-Edmond Cross packaging
Rose-gold + gold sparkle — $45
Met edition of the Luxe Shimmer formula
Luxe Lipstick
Pandora — Odilon Redon packaging
Neutral Rose + Parisian Red
Existing shades, limited-edition Met packaging
Extra Lip Tinted Balm
Bouquet of Sunflowers — Claude Monet packaging
Bare Rose + Bare Mahogany
8-Well Eyeshadow Palette
€85
This palette is gorgeous. It’s very neutral, very wearable, and has enough depth to take you from a simple daytime look to something much smokier at night. Its versatility is actually where I think this one makes the most sense: if you’re an art enthusiast looking for something special that you could still realistically use every day, this is probably the standout of the collection.
Now, while I am an art enthusiast, I also have drawers full of eyeshadow palettes. I already own these shades several times over. As beautiful as it is, I’m not sure I can justify buying it purely for the packaging.
The compact features Landscape with Stars (ca. 1905–1908) by Henri-Edmond Cross. And yes, it actually is a watercolor! The original is a dreamy, slightly murky landscape beneath a huge star-streaked sky, which translates surprisingly well onto the dark blue and gold packaging.
The palette contains eight shades:
Gilded Frame: a shimmering light champagne
Sketch: a medium matte warm brown
Glimmering Gallery: a shimmering soft yellow gold
Graphite Glimmer: a twinkling black-brown
Artist's Easel: a matte beige
Tapestry: a shimmering soft true gold
Midnight Ink: a matte deep blue
Sculpted Bronze: a shimmering neutral bronze
There are five shimmers and three mattes, so despite how neutral the colour story is, there’s still quite a lot of sparkle here. I particularly like the addition of Midnight Ink; without that deep blue, I think the palette could have become a little too safe.
Brightening Blush
€59
This is a multidimensional three-in-one blush, with three different colours pressed into each compact. You can apparently swirl them together for an all-over glow or use the individual sections separately.
There are two new shades:
Blushed Peach: a matte peach alongside soft gold and light bronze satin shades.
Blushed Burgundy: a soft matte burgundy alongside soft champagne satin and golden shimmer shades.
That burgundy shade is so gorgeous. Out of everything I’ve seen so far, this may be the one I’m most tempted to actually buy.
The compact features a detail from Gustav Klimt’s Mäda Primavesi (1912–1913).
There’s a lovely story behind this one too. Mäda was only nine years old when her father, banker and industrialist Otto Primavesi, commissioned Klimt to paint her portrait. Klimt experimented with numerous poses before settling on the very upright, confident stance we see in the finished painting.
Even the dress has a fashion connection: the white lawn dress Mäda wears was designed by Emilie Flöge at Klimt’s suggestion. Flöge was a fashion designer and one of Klimt’s closest companions.
And for a blush compact, the choice of painting feels particularly fitting. Mäda has these wonderfully rosy cheeks in the portrait, which are now sitting right on top of the product designed to give us exactly that.
Luxe Shimmer Eyeshadow — Rose Illusion
€53
This is the sparkle option of the collection: Rose Illusion, a rose-gold eyeshadow with gold sparkle.
The Luxe Shimmer Eyeshadows can be worn dry or applied with a damp brush for a more intense, almost liquid-metal effect.
I’ve actually owned one of these before, though, and I found it surprisingly difficult to work with. For me, the payoff just wasn’t there compared with some of the other shimmer formulas I own. At €53 for a single eyeshadow, I would personally rather put that money towards the eight-pan palette.
That is very much based on my own experience with the formula, though. If you already love Bobbi Brown’s Luxe Shimmer Eyeshadows, Rose Illusion is definitely the more dramatic, sparkly option in this collection.
The packaging once again features Henri-Edmond Cross’s Landscape with Stars, so aesthetically it pairs perfectly with the larger eyeshadow palette.
Luxe Lipstick
€45
The collection also includes two shades of Bobbi Brown’s Luxe Lipstick: Neutral Rose and Parisian Red. I haven’t found the limited-edition versions on the European website yet, so these links go to the US store for now.
Neither shade is new. Neutral Rose and Parisian Red are already part of Bobbi Brown’s regular Luxe Lipstick range, so this is really about the limited-edition packaging rather than exclusive colours. The regular Luxe Lipstick formula is a rich satin lipstick, and Bobbi Brown claims up to 10 hours of moisture and wear, with flower extracts and waxes included to help condition the lips.
The cases feature Pandora (ca. 1914) by Odilon Redon.
The painting itself is a surprisingly dramatic choice for a lipstick. Redon shows Pandora before she opens the infamous box, standing almost innocently among flowers while holding the object that will eventually unleash humanity’s evils. The Met notes that the painting was likely created around 1914, on the eve of the First World War, which gives the whole “beauty surrounded by impending disaster” thing a little more weight.
That soft pink and peach colour palette does translate beautifully onto the lipstick cases, though.
Extra Lip Tinted Balm with Plumping and Peptide Technology
€45
The Extra Lip Tinted Balm is the more casual lip option in the collection. It’s a moisturizing, slightly plumping tinted balm with a colour that Bobbi Brown says adapts to the pH of your lips. The formula contains ceramides, botanical oils and peptide technology, and is meant to give you a sheer, individual-looking tint rather than the opacity of a lipstick.
The collection includes two shades:
Bare Rose
Bare Mahogany
The packaging features Claude Monet’s Bouquet of Sunflowers from 1881. Monet painted the sunflowers that grew along the path to his garden at Vétheuil, and later exhibited the painting at the 1882 Impressionist exhibition.
Final thoughts
I really like this collection. It feels very classy and sophisticated, even if it isn’t particularly youthful or experimental. The colours are wearable, the artwork is beautiful, and the whole thing feels very polished.
I do think the biggest selling point here is the collaboration itself rather than the makeup being especially innovative. A lot of the shades are very classic Bobbi Brown, which makes sense for the brand, but it also means that if you already own a lot of neutral makeup, you may be buying this mainly for the packaging.
That said, I’m not sure I’m willing to shell out for the entire collection. If I had to limit myself to one item, I’d probably go for the Blushed Burgundy blush. It’s gorgeous, and it feels different enough from what I already own to justify it.
The Luxe Lipstick in Neutral Rose is also very beautiful, but since the shade itself isn’t limited edition, I don’t feel any urgency to buy it just for the packaging.
For me, this collection makes the most sense for someone who has a limited amount of cosmetics, loves art, beautiful packaging, and very wearable makeup.
Practical Info
I wish I could tell you exactly which products will be available in Europe, where they’ll be sold, and when they’ll launch. At the moment, I can’t.
My guess is that at least part of the collection will eventually make its way to Bobbi Brown counters and European retailers, but there’s no confirmed rollout yet.
A few of the products are already showing up on Bobbi Brown’s European website, though, and some can even be added to your cart. So if you’re particularly keen, that’s probably the first place I’d keep an eye on.
