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Los Angeles – Oh no she higher don’t put on make-up that hurts animals! As everybody prepares to glam up and exit for New Yr’s Eve, Alaska Thunderf*ck, Heidi N Closet, and Kim Chi are starring in a pair of PETA campaigns that urge everybody to show a glance with make-up that’s fierce, not deadly—that means by no means examined on animals and containing no animal-derived substances.
In an accompanying video, Alaska and Heidi focus on the nasty substances that may sneak into make-up—particularly, lanolin, beeswax, biotin, and carmine, which is manufactured from crushed-up beetles—and the way PETA’s Bunny Free app will help buyers discover animal-friendly merchandise. “[S]ome corporations take a look at the hell out of animals,” Alaska says. “As an alternative of testing on animals, I do know just a few queens they may take a look at it on as an alternative,” Heidi says jokingly.
In her video, Kim Chi encourages everybody to keep away from mink-fur lashes, too. “I’m all for being additional, however not at the price of another person’s life,” she says. “Be a part of me and say no to mink lashes and sure to being fierce and moral.”
Whereas most lashes are vegan, some corporations use fur from minks, who’re confined to filthy, cramped wire cages till they’re killed and skinned, typically whereas they’re nonetheless alive. PETA’s Bunny Free app notes which corporations are vegan—freed from fur and different animal-derived substances—and which can be among the many greater than 6,000 corporations world wide which have banned all animal exams, by which substances are utilized to animals’ eyes and shaved pores and skin, sprayed of their faces, or compelled down their throats.
Alaska, Heidi, and Kim be a part of a protracted listing of celebrities—together with Victoria Scone, Woman Bunny, Artwork Simone, Lypsinka, Courtney Act, Elvira, Jennifer Coolidge, and Pamela Anderson—who’ve teamed up with PETA entities to advertise kindness to animals.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on, put on, or abuse in another method”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.