Kardashian sisters in legal battle over beauty branding Khroma, the Kardashian's make-up line, faces ban as it goes into a legal beauty battle to keep hold of its trademark name with the lesser known "Kroma." Confused? You deserve to be, just as the cosmetic consumers in the U.S. are. It seems that the Kardashian's beauty brand, Khroma , which launched last year and has already reported sales of $1.526 million in its first quarter, has been eating up sales of the lesser known make-up brand Kroma - an American organic beauty brand which had been growing steadily with annual sales of $200,000 in the states, and $1 million in the UK - until now. In an interview with WWD, the holding company Lee Tillett Inc, who own Kroma, stated that since the launch of the Kardashian brand (which confusingly goes by a similar name save for an extra 'h') their sales have plummeted by 25 per cent. IN PICTURES - 10 Best: Celebrity skin secrets The beauty battle commenced last year. Bringing out the big guns, Boldface, the licensing and branding company behind Kardashian's brand, issued a lawsuit to obtain a declaration that Khroma did in no way impact on the sales of Kroma. The Khroma campaign starring Kim, Khloé and Kourtney. Now Tillett have hit back with a trademark infringement countersuit. Looking at both sides of the beauty battle, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California judge Audrey Collins said an injunction would amount to loses of millions for the Kardashians, but withholding it would "destroy Tillett's business, which it has built over a decade, causing losses of hundreds of thousands." The law courts came down on the side of Kroma, and decided to issue a preliminary injunction, blocking the make-up brand belonging to Khloé, Kim and Kourtney. It's now up to Boldface and the Kardashian sisters to launch a counteract appeal. READ: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian to collaborate on shoe line? And we're sure they will, for there are big numbers involved. Boldface are already planning to pay minimum royalties of between $4.7 to $5.2 million to the sisters - on top of the $1 million advance. And there were plans to launch in over 5,000 stores across in 48 countries this year. But for now plans have been scuppered, all in the name of a name. Seems like the Kardashian's are being stopped in their beautiful tracks - quite literally in Kim's case, whose foot was crushed under the weight of her bodyguard's boot yesterday.