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Becca Cosmetics: Why lockdown is bad news for make-up brands
By Annabel Rackham
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Are your make-up brushes laying unused in a corner? Is your favourite eye shadow palette gathering dust in a drawer?
There s certainly not much appetite for going full glam at the moment - and it s having a major effect on the beauty industry.
We ve already seen what the pandemic has done to fashion retail - with several shops disappearing from our high streets forever.
Now Becca Cosmetics has become the first major beauty casualty of the pandemic, with the Australian company announcing it is shutting down after 20 years.
Becca Cosmetics, the brand responsible for see-them-from-space highlighted cheekbones, is the latest company to be hit hard by COVID-19. On February 24, the influential beauty brand announced it would be closing come September 2021.
With a statement shared on Instagram and its website titled “Glowing with Gratitude,” the brand lamented the devastating impact the pandemic has had “on everyone around the world on many levels,” and encouraged Becca lovers to continued to “keep illuminating your true selves.”
“At Becca, an accumulation of challenges, together with the global impact of COVID-19, has sadly been more than our business can withstand, and we have had to make the heartbreaking decision to close down the Becca brand at the end of September 2021,” the statement reads. “We believe in you, and we believe that the beauty inside you is the light you share with the world. We are confident that the spirit of Becca will continue to live on through all of you.”
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A beauty influencer is apologizing for saying the N-word in 2017 after people recently threatened to boycott her nail-polish brand
A beauty influencer is apologizing for saying the N-word in 2017 after people recently threatened to boycott her nail-polish brand
Amanda KrauseJan 29, 2021, 04:48 IST
Kathleen Lights apologizes for saying the N-word in a recent video.Kathleen Lights/Instagram
YouTuber Kathleen Lights said the N-word in a 2017 Snapchat video.
She shared an apology via Instagram Tuesday after people started to boycott her nail-polish brand.
Now, some members of the online beauty community say they aren t fully convinced by the apology.
Beauty YouTuber Kathleen Fuentes shared an Instagram video on Tuesday in which she apologized for saying the N-word in 2017.