I feel like I was bitch-slapped by nostalgia just looking at those pics of frosted eye shadow. Makes me think of Britney and TRL and teen movies. Ah, good times.

I ask this with immense fondness: u mad

WHOA MAN YOU GOT ME THERE

ugly-ass pants that need to die in a river of hellfire and never, ever come back again to make us think they’re flattering.

I agree that the marketing is problematic - that product description is particularly ridiculous - but there are lots of reasons a person might use a lightening product that have nothing to do with lightening the overall color of their skin - fading hyperpigmentation or melasma, for instance. I have a few lightening…

Emma. Why did you cause racism? And when are you going to end racism?

Which is the actual point of most of these products - spot correcters to help eliminate freckles, hyper pigmentation from scarring, and other discolourations. I think it is super important to acknowledge the cultural context of these products (colourism, etc.) but I am also not willing to demonize all lightening spot…

yes and in the western world there are people who make themselves look like barbies and kens. the outliers are not representative. stop trying to erase our culture to fit your narrative of the Hapless Coloured People who don’t even know that they’re colonised!

It could be, but that’s not how the article itself is framed. This post beginning and ends with Emma Watson.

There should be a countdown whenever people start loving a female celebrity and putting her on a pedestal to the inevitable day they call her out for something maybe even beyond her control and tear her down. I'm so sick of this same cycle again and again.

Phew, I was worried we wouldn’t be able to attack Emma Watson from the left.

But you’re criticising this based on an American-centric viewpoint. That’s not so cool when you’re talking about beauty norms from other countries.

I got LASIK (well, PRK) and it was the best decision ever. My eyesight was so terrible I almost didn’t qualify & my life improved 100% afterwards.

DAMN that might be the meanest thing I heard today. Love it.

You named yourself after a convicted child rapist.

IDK, Lea Michele just always seems like she’s *auditioning* for the non-available position of Sara Jessica Parker’s understudy.

WAY TO RUIN IT EVEN BEFORE THE EPISODE AIRS

Here’s how I relieve tension every morning by being mindful.

They need yoga.

Every time you say “Namaste” an angel turns gay. Everyone knows that.