Jackie Aina and Jeffree Star Beef

Hello Beauty Babes.

This post is a long 1 and the receipts are BOUNTIFUL

Before going into this, I but desire to let you guys know WHY I'm posting this. As a blackness woman, too every bit a black woman in makeup, race is something that matters. People say that race isn't important, but information technology is. It's not everything, only it does matter. Where it gets difficult, is when people use race to demean people and consider their race equally superior to someone else'due south Similar any community, there will be disagreements. But when someone in our makeup community feels that someone of a different race is less than, or not equal to them, something is incorrect.

With that beingness said, this post is going to be LOOONG and full of info. And so sit dorsum, and start reading!

So Jeffree Star has never been one to shy away from confrontation. If you don't know, I decided to not post near Jeffree considering of his by statements regarding race, using the n-word, etc.

Someone else who feels this way is Jackie Aina, a black female beauty vlogger who I am a big fan of. I posted about Jackie calling out Tarte in an anti-haul video. In that video, she also denounced Jeffree Star Cosmetics due to his previous racially insensitive comments, every bit well equally him never officially apologizing for making them.

Months later, Jackie tweeted to her fans showing that JS BLOCKED her.

Other Beauty Influencers tweeted who had also been blocked by Jeffree, who every bit I've said, is not one to shy away from confrontation. Thomas Halbert, and Stefanie Nicole are shown tweeting below:

Things got interesting when Jeffree fired dorsum calling Jackie a "rat" and insinuating she had non paid her taxes, even calling her channel "stale".

This resulted in a bit of a tit for tat, where Jackie clapped back quite instantaneously:

Sssamatha and Alissa Ashley tweeted in support of Jackie, deeming Jeffree's racially insensitive comments unacceptable:

Of course people thought that the reason for this block-ation was the anti haul video, which JS swiftly denied. However, receipts showed that in March of this year correct earlier the video, he congratulated Jackie on an award nomination. Hmmm…

I could go on and on showing you lot guys tweets, merely I think I've shown yous the major pieces to this feud. Before giving yous my opinion, allow me share a cardinal slice in the whole thing, a video Jeffree merely posted:

In the video, Jeffree discusses his by racial statements, not specifically mentioning Jackie Aina, but more than generally his experience dealing with his by brought up. I know what y'all're thinking, and YES at that place is an amends.

Alright, here'due south my opinion.

Let me only offset by saying, not liking someone takes so much more than attempt and energy than liking them, which is why I feel similar no one likes to make a stance against things said that are wrong whether they exist sexist, racist, homophobic, or just plain mean. In a community like the dazzler community, disliking someone is never piece of cake. Exercise I dislike Jeffree Star? No. But I don't agree with him maxim what he said.

I accept to commend Jackie, seriously because in that location is always someone saying that by standing up for yourself or what's right, you lot're being "dramatic" or "overreacting". When really, this is what you lot should practice. stand up against something wrong.

I believe it'south non e'er what you lot say, but how you say it when information technology comes to the N-word. I do occasionally bop to rap songs, and if a person of color uses it to refer to someone every bit a friend, I personally don't take criminal offense. Merely Jeffree used the North-give-and-take to suggest something wrong. That being that was disgusting. He joked about bleaching darker skin, and in that location is more. That is something that can't be shrugged off, but like I said, it'southward so easy to merely keep with everyone and just like them. It's hard to stand alone in righteousness, just merely because it;s like shooting fish in a barrel doesn't hateful information technology's right.

I'g not a big proper noun by whatsoever ways. But like anyone with a blog, I have a platform. I cull to use my platform to speak my listen and say that racist behavior is wrong. whether it was ii days, 2 years, 12 years, 20 years, whatever. if it came out of your mouth, that was how you felt. I need to see that you have changed and do not feel that mode anymore. Yous can't just brush it aside.

In regards to the video, I am glad he did it, simply it really should have been done long agone. This is not something new, and I feel like Jackie'south statement in her video was right. He should have fabricated a statement nearly this. Blocking Jackie for pointing it out and calling her a rat (which he besides called MakeupShayla, another popular black dazzler influencer) but makes him look worse. had he just released this video, the situation would have been better. Simply now it appears to only be a ways to an terminate.

I do experience that sometimes in this overly sensitized time we live in, things get diddled out of proportion. Only Jeffree knows what his truthful intent was. Only there are things present here that actually tin can't exist denied. Things that as a women of color brand me upset.

Equally a adult female of color, I accept Jeffree's amends. I do. I experience that he really was 18-carat and is distressing almost his words. I mean if everyone recorded usa at our most vulnerable moments, would we exist happy? Withal, when you are provoked, reacting in a racially degrading style is not normal. And by non addressing information technology, you simply brand it more difficult for people to decide your truthful nature. Sadly, racists exist around us. If a person that deems someone of a dissimilar race below them runs a business, I would desire to know so that I don't make them richer if they feel similar I'yard non valuable to them.

And so, I don't hate Jeffree Star. I admire him for beingness unlike and showing that it's okay to not fit a certain preconceived group. HOWEVER, that does not make information technology okay in the least to say something to degrade someone different than yous.

I don't take an interest to buy from Jeffree Star Cosmetics, or to post about information technology. I want to meet if the Jeffree in this video is legitimate. The thing with the truth, and the true nature of someone, is that information technology always comes out.

Just, to conclude beauty babes, let me leave y'all with a quote of Maya Angelou's that my mom has always told me:

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I'll come across yous in my adjacent post babes, and hopefully it'll be less serious.

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