circa '97 @nicurly - Tumblr Blog

hey controversial opinion but clean water should be fucking free and people should never be allowed to make money off of it because its fucking needed to live

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“mom im bleeding”

“oh sweetie there’s no need to be worried that’s just a sign that you’re becoming a woman”

“thank god, i was really starting to get worried about this axe in my shoulder”

cheeso

do not laugh at comedians they are trying their best

honeyjelli

*buys something online*

wow it sure is good to have a reason to live again

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aspiretostudy

Have everyone seen this picture of the Danish cop playing games with a little Syrian refrugee on her way to Sweden?

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ok? and?

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This child has suffered in a country filled with terror, managed to escape and then walked and traveled her way from one continent to another. This is a child in the mids of terror and hatred. Her people have been kicked and spit at. She is a child who have not been allowed to be a child. She is a victim of a war she can’t controll. And then she arrives at the other side of the world, and someone finally treats her like a child. Who see her and play with her and give her some comic relief in the mids of the most traumatic experince of her life, in a country where no one speaks her language and it is so much colder than what she has known. In the mids of war and terror we forget that kids are still kids, and this police officer on the other side of the world reminds us that they are indeed children. Don’t come here and “and?” me!

someone: you're pretentious

me, sprawled out on a bed of roses, reading oscar wilde and sipping champagne: oh?

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the last 3 years have been so bad bc hozier abandoned us

me: *performs a basic function of an adult human in society*

me: I am so on top of it today

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Guess it’s time to find a new brand of inexpensive conditioner; Garnier, being a subsidiary of L’Oreal, has gone and lost my business. Because Ms. Bergdorf spoke nothing but truth and is an Icon™.

All my white followers, hear me out on this: For one, even the best among white people (you, with the pointed exception of any creepy hatefollowers I haven’t blocked yet) have to unlearn casual racism…and doing so is a lifelong, ongoing project, because it’s inherent in the system. And, to be blunt: most white people don’t bother to unlearn it; it’s easier to be complicit than uncomfortable, after all.

And for another? She was fucking talking about Charlottesville. You know, where actual racists killed someone for standing up to them; and their Apologist-In-Chief tried to front like everyone was to blame? But clearly, the black trans lady who said “you’re all complicit, and most of you don’t even try not to be” is the real bigot here. Keep telling yourself that.

Anyway: L'Oreal talks a big game about promoting diversity; even as they fire and denounce a model for calling out bullshit when she smelled it, off of company time…and even as they manufacture skin-lightening products. So…I guess that chief among the “values” they were talking about must be unmitigated hypocrisy.

And no—do not try to talk to me about how she shouldn’t have “gotten political” or whatever. Skin bleach is not apolitical; and neither—if mainly because we live in a society where skin bleach is seen as apolitical—is committing oneself to diversity. They’d have known when they hired Ms. Bergdorf that she wasn’t going to just stand around and be decorative; they still fired her for reasons that add up to “being an Angry Black Woman.” (And not even on company time, either.)

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List of L’Oreal brands, from Wikipedia, some of the more common/familiar ones bolded:

Ombrelle

Garnier

Maybelline

NYX Cosmetics

SoftSheen-Carson

Carol’s Daughter (formerly black owned)

Créateurs de Beauté

Essie

Magic

Niely Cosméticos

Colorama

Lancôme

Yves Saint-Laurent

Giorgio Armani

Biotherm

Cacharel

Diesel

Viktor & Rolf

Ralph Lauren

Kiehl’s

The Body Shop

Shu Uemura

Clarisonic

Guy Laroche

Paloma Picasso

Urban Decay

Maison Margiela

Yue Sai

Helena Rubinstein

Drakkar Noir

L'Oréal Technique

L'Oréal Professionnel, including ARTec and Innate

Kérastase

Kéraskin Esthetics

Matrix Essentials

Mizani

PureOlogy Research

Redken 5th Avenue NYC

Carita

Essie

Decléor

Vichy

La Roche Posay

Inneov

Skinceuticals

Roger&Gallet

Sanoflore

Dermablend

Yes, that is a whole bunch of cosmetics and clothing companies, including some you’ve probably used. And many of them probably have some level of independence from L’Oreal, even though they’re part of its money flow.

So let’s do more than just refrain from buying their products. Tell your salon about these brands. WRITE LETTERS. CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE and ask to be escalated as far up the chain as you can get. Urge the executives of these subsidiary brands to speak out against this.

Tell Urban Decay why you’re going without your favorite eyeshadow this year. Tell Maybelline we’re not born with racism and it’s not pretty. Ask the Body Shop if they think racism is earth-friendly. Tell Diesel why you’re not buying their jeans, maybe phone their head office in Italy. Phone up the Ralph Lauren corporate office.

Google “[brand] contact info” for any of the above companies and start there, or try this convenient list provided by L’Oreal itself, or if you have a little time and some daring, try an Executive Email Carpet Bomb.

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