Hailey Bieber has now been trolled for sharing a makeup tutorial online that seems to promote cultural appropriation.
Many have accused the star of using appropriation to sell her products.
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It was just recently that Hailey Bieber opened up about her medical episode in a video shared on YouTube.
Titled “telling my story,” Bieber began the video by explaining that she wanted to “tell the story in my own words of where I’ve been at healthwise.”
She said that on March 10, she had a “very scary incident” where she was eating breakfast when she felt a “weird sensation” in her arm and her fingertips felt “numb and weird.”
She then found that she “couldn’t speak” when her husband, Justin Bieber asked if she was okay and the “right side of my face started drooping.”
“Immediately, I thought I was having a stroke,” she said.
Bieber said that an ambulance was called and by the time she arrived at the emergency room, she was “back to normal” and was no longer “having any issues with my face or my arm.”
She was then kept in hospital overnight where they did “tons of test” including “blood tests to see if I had a clotting disorder or autoimmune disease.”
It was determind that she had suffered a TIA which is often also known as a mini-stroke.
Her doctors said that the cause could have been down to three things, the first being her starting to taking birth control, which she shouldn’t have been on due to suffering migraines, without speaking to her doctor first.
They also said it could be due to recently having Covid-19 or that she had recently been on a long flight in a short amount of time.
After being discharged from hospital, she visited another doctor who did a transcranial doppler which found that she had a “Grade 5 PFO.”
A PFO is a small opening in the heart which usually closes after birth but for Bieber, she still had that hole…
Bieber then explained that she underwent surgery to close the small hole in her heart and is now recovering “really well, really fast.”
Adding that she is now on blood thinner and aspirin, Bieber said that she is so “grateful” for all the doctors that took care of her.
“If there’s anybody that watches this that has gone through the same thing or something similar, I definitely really empathize with you,” she said. “And I understand how life-altering and scary it is.”
Since then, the twenty-five-year-old has been making headlines…
Particularly as she’s shared numerous videos online of her skincare and makeup tutorials.
Some of which haven’t gone down too well with her many of her 9 million fans on TikTok…
Leading many to slam the star…
One furious Twitter user wrote: “‘The Hailey Bieber brownie glazed lips trend’ YOU MEAN THE SAME LIP COMBO THAT EVERY BROWN GIRL OF ALL VARIETIES OF BROWN HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE BEFORE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.”
“I’m crying because she took a lip combo that black and Latina women have been wearing since the 90s and named it ‘brownie glazed lips’ to make it sound cute lol like if you gonna try to make something trend then at least you could do is give credit from where you got the inspo,” another added.
“The fact that Hailey Bieber just wore brown lip liner and clear gloss and the white girls are going crazy over it… honey, Latinas & Black women been hip but y’all called us ghetto for it… #woc,” a third wrote.
“White ppl calling brown lip liner w clear gloss Hailey Bieber lips or brownie glazed lips… Hailey didn’t do s***!! black and Hispanic women have done this combo way before,” another said.
“‘Hailey’s Brownie glazed lips’ and it’s literally just brown liner + gloss that black and Latina women have been doing for years,” one person commented.
“Not u b****** saying Hailey Bieber ‘brownie glazed lips’ is starting a trend during Hispanic heritage month,” another said.
These comments come after Bieber posted a video showcasing a beauty trend of brown lip liner and clear gloss which she’s labeled “brownie glazed lips.”
People of color called out the star for culturally appropriating the makeup technique by failing to credit the source of inspiration for the look. They were quick to point out that the look has actually been popular with black, brown, and Latina women since the 90s.
By definition, cultural appropriation is when someone adopts something from a culture that doesn’t belong to them…
As per reports, this could be a hairstyle or a way of speaking, a recent example of this is Kim Kardashian, who back in February graced the cover of Vogue, opting for a
high, cone-shaped bun decorated with pearls – she was then accused of appropriating black culture.
Bieber was further accused of appropriation when she branded the technique “brownie glazed lips” to help sell her products…
This clearly didn’t sit well with many who said she was partly profiting off a trend created by women of color.
One social media user wrote: “Seeing Hailey Bieber get created for the ‘clean girl aesthetic’ & ‘brownie glazed lips’ is so exhausting like black and brown women BEEN THE BLUEPRINT but once a rich yt woman does something it’s balls off the walls.”
While another added: “White girls on TikTok wearing hoop earrings and slicked bun and calling it ‘clean girl aesthetic’ like that look hasn’t been a staple for Black and Latina women???”
What do you think?