So, anyone who knows makeup, knows MAC. And many people who know MAC, know their motto– “Tested on models, not animals”. Or at least, that used to be their motto.
As of some point in 2012 (some reports as early as February), MAC has started doing animal testing. Another brand which was strongly against animal testing is Smashbox, and they have also commenced animal testing. These are BOTH brands which have been cruelty-free for YEARS, if not for their entire existence. And yet, they are now commencing testing on animals. SILENTLY. They are trying to hide what is a drastic change in their company’s values. I’m not okay with that. Are you?
Here are some links you should check out:
Logical Harmony’s update on ALL Estee Lauder brands
Logical Harmony’s post on Smashbox Cosmetics
Logical Harmony’s post on MAC Cosmetics
CONTACT MAC AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL
CONTACT SMASHBOX AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL
There are a number of other brands which have silently commenced animal testing this year (Avon, for instance, after TWO DECADES of being cruelty-free)– but none bother me personally so much as these two brands, BOTH of which were strongly against animal testing, and advertised as such. They’ve built up brand loyalty based on their strong values. They’ve got customers who buy their products BECAUSE we (thought we) could trust them. And now, without warning or notice, we can no longer support these companies.
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Posted April 11th, 2012
To those about to harass
When you holler at a woman in the street, what is going through YOUR mind? If you leer at her or hit on her as she’s just trying to get somewhere and unfortunately has to go past you, what do YOU think will happen? What do your actions mean to you? What do your actions mean to HER? Obviously you don’t care about how your actions will affect her– you probably aren’t the kind of person who cares about how your actions affect other people in ANY situation. But let me tell you what’s going through her mind:
“Oh god oh god oh god I have to walk past this group of males, okay, calm down, maybe they won’t bother you, just keep talking with your friend NOPE okay just ignore them they don’t matter NOPE they’re still going, that’s enough of that, oh god, I told them what they were doing is wrong and they’re still yelling at me, oh god, am I going to get raped, thank god I am not alone, but what if they attack both of us, oh god, I need to get inside NOW”
And let me tell you what’s going through her mind the next day:
“It’s a beautiful day but I can’t walk to work because this is a small town and what if I see those people again and I’ll be ALONE this time and what if no one’s around, it’s a Sunday, people are inside, I’ll be safe in my car, I canNOT walk to work”
And let me tell you what else is going on in her life. Maybe this girl doesn’t feel safe in her own small town anymore. Maybe this girl has been having people shouting rude sexual things at her a lot lately, or had people purr at her in the hallways, or had people lean out their cars to stare and whistle. Maybe this girl doesn’t walk to work anymore because on the nights when she finishes at 9:00, she’s too scared to walk the THREE MINUTES HOME in the dark by herself. And she never used to be scared. Maybe it’s because of YOU, men. Maybe it’s because of YOU that someone who had so much confidence is now absolutely scared in her own small hometown…When she doesn’t have this fear in the big ol’ bad city. Maybe you should reconsider what you’re doing, before you decide to fuck up someone’s life and make her assume every single young man is going to harm her.
And to the people who say I’m overreacting? Fuck you people too. You people DON’T HELP. If I ignore them, they think it’s okay, they think their behaviour is accepted, they may even think I like it because I shut my mouth and didn’t tell them I was disgusted. Maybe I could have said it better, more eloquently. But the little ball of anger at them and their gender burst at the moment they decided it was more important to harass me than to let me walk down the street to get to my destination. This is NOT the same as “playground teasing”, where it doesn’t mean anything and if you ignore it, it’ll go away. This is you, using your words to deliberately harm another human being, to boost YOUR ego, without any regard for the damage you may cause.
No matter what I do, it seems to be the “wrong choice”, and the only way to avoid it is to never go out into society. Actually, on a second thought, that doesn’t sound so bad after all.
Oh, and I don’t salute you. Not one bit.
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Posted March 18th, 2012
Facts that are also Fun
Did you know that the very same day I had dreamhost update ALL my wordpress installs (IE: SSD, 317, and Demos) is the VERY SAME DAY (the very same time even) I got a horrible hack on all my sites which made me have to fix all my php files manually (or in the case of my gallery, just delete it)????
Interesting indeed *grumble*
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Posted January 21st, 2012
The Tweets
- 08:03 @LexiBadger city tv has a lot of coverage (assuming you mean japan stuff) #
- 08:05 I kept trying to say something about the japan weather business but it kept coming out wrong. *hugs* @ japan. #
- 08:06 In other news there is a fucking BLIZZARD here and I can’t miss school, shitty :/ #
- 08:06 Haha wow that makes me sound like a heartless bitch. #
- 08:07 Also random livejournal person it would be nice if you didn’t personally attack me on an episode discussion post thx. #
- 08:38 @LexiBadger oh hold on I thought it hadn’t hit yet, only the quakes? #
- 08:45 If a man falls in love with the first woman who pays any attention to him,who’s to say he won’t fall for the next one to laugh at his jokes? #
- 08:45 Shower revelations. #
- 10:19 All the snow has melted and it’s raining at york but in uxbridge it’s blizzarding and a ton of snow has come back. #
- 11:40 Hilarious bathroom graffiti: "marrying your cousin is wrong" "thanks tips" #
- 11:40 In other news my jaw still kills #
- 11:42 I’m sitting down at a table. A blind man just walked into me. I apologised for getting in the way. #supercanadian #
- 11:44 Eating my home made peanut butter and banana sandwich. It’s tasty but it doesn’t compare to a warm cheesy melty panini. #
- 11:44 Oh well, I need to be economical as I’m spending way too much on eating out lately. #
- 15:06 Just because someone else has it worse does not make your pain any less valid. #
- 15:06 Also, I fucking hate truck drivers and I wish they would learn to NOT tail me. Safe following dist!
ance applies to you pricks too. # - 15:47 @himymprod it’s things like this that make the rest of us feel guilty for going on with our daily lives. :/ #
- 17:06 Condoms, rose, condoms condoms condoms! #
- 17:23 @kissoffools so, yeah, it may be too late but I just saw this…take the battery out and let it dry out completely #
- 17:24 @kissoffools it may resolve itself but the important thing is that you DON’T HAVE IT ON and you TAKE THE BATTERY OUT lest further damage #
- 17:2
5 @kissoffools …occur # - 17:25 @kissoffools oh shit i forgot the new macs don’t let you take the battery out. shit. #
- 17:26 @kissoffools I’m not even sure if the new ones let you. Look on the bottom of it and see if there’s a little slot like a coin could go ito #
- 17:27 @kissoffools apple is ridiculous :/ #
- 17:28 reasons why I am making pizza for dinner: I have no clean cutlery and the dishwasher is still running. #
- 17:52 @kissoffools they shouldn’t have to. and you may well not need to get it replaced once it dries out a little. #
- 17:52 @kissoffools but there is definitely absolutely NO REASON they would have to wipe your hard drive. #
- 17:55 @kissoffools okay I get that I’m just saying sometimes when it dries out, it will start working again. #
- 17:55 @kissoffools and to replace the screen there is no need at all to wipe the hard drive. #
- 19:59 Oh whoops the game starts in 2 minutes and I’m still at home…guess I should get a move on #lazygirlfriend #
- 20:24 Ohhh shitty there’s a bruins game tonight so getting a parking spot was a nightmare #
- 21:00 #Overheardd at the arena: "where’s your phone?" "In the van" "what’s it doing there?" "Not much" #
- 21:03 More #overheard at the arena: "I have a promise ring!" "Oh yeah? I have an engagement ring!" "Well mine is down the drain in the sewers!" #
- 21:06 "So I like slept with him while he had a girlfriend, I felt so bad, if she wanted t!
o fight me I almost wouldn’t stop her" & she’s about 16. # - 21:18 This game is so boring. They literally stopped counting our goals because we are so far ahead. #
- 21:19 I just got "I have to go…over there…now"d #
- 22:34 As I just discovered, I don’t ever need to get drunk again. I can just spin around in a chair for a few minutes. Exact same effects! #
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Posted March 12th, 2011
The Tweets
- 12:41 I don’t like being at york. #
- 14:24 Omg I got an A on a paper. Dying of happy #
- 15:13 So we’re discussing gender neutrality in language and I’m the only one in the lecture familiar with "zie" and "hir" … I feel awkward now #
- 15:22 @live2tivo sentence formation difficult for dull minded individuals. #
- 21:04 This is ava. I want to steal her twitpic.com/48b4pd #
- 23:34 Every househo!
ld has a food item that they can’t buy regularly because it just gets eaten too quickly. For mine, that is whipped cream. # - 03:15 Just woke up from an awful dream where @Hawk37 dumped me
it’s times like these where I wish he were right here to snuggle #
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Posted March 11th, 2011
The Tweets
- 06:24 Fuck my mom for waking me up with her loud talking.m #
- 14:23 Omg I nearly just got hit by two cars. Seriously people if a pedestrian is crossing, don’t make your left turn. Simple as that #
- 19:43 I have many things to say…but they can all be summed up with this statement: I fucking hate EVERYONE (actually, except @Hawk37 ) #
- 19:46 listening to backin up makes me feel a little better #
- 19:56 @Haylie duh #
- 20:06 It’s eerie how often sims musi!
c is used in commercials or tv shows…I hear it OFTEN in ANTM, throughout many seasons # - 20:21 awww, someone just blocked me on facebook because we had a minor disagreement. #
- 20:22 I also discovered that when there seem to be missing comments on facebook, it’s probably because the person has blocked me. OOPS. #
- 20:26 aw man I shouldn’t be so annoyed but I am seriously, that was nothing to block me over, wtf girl #
- 20:27 omg i am having so much jaw pain right now #
- 20:34 omg my jaw is in so much pain #
- 20
:43 I am in so much pain I can’t even close my mouth it hurts too much # - 20:45 @kurchenko I have no idea, it just started feeling kind of sore and now it feels REALLY sore. Icing does sound good I’ll try that #
- 20:55 @kurchenko Thanks. Icing seems to be helping and I’m hoping it’ll just go away. The weird thing is *normally… (cont) deck.ly/~WlnXI #
- 20:56 @kurchenko haha maybe. that would be something, wouldn’t it? my jaw is in pain because it’s where it’s SUPPOSED to be now. #
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Posted March 10th, 2011
The Tweets
- 10:10 @SunnyCrittenden *hugs* bad dreams are the worst. #
- 10:19 I had a weird dream where @Hawk37 & all his guy buddies were going around uxbridge finding guys who were recently dumped & talking to them. #
- 10:33 Why would you yell out "deanna are you awake" when you could just text me. Especially if I was actually asleep. #
- 10:36 But he’s distant and you found him on the phone pleadin sayin baby I love you and I’ll leave her and I’m comin out to california #
- 17:20 Creepy teenage boys. Ihysfm #
- 17:24 Perhaps when you grow up you will understand that not only do nonsmokers hate you for standing at the door and smoking, but other smokers #
- 17:25 Hate you too for giving us a bad reputation. Creepy teenage boys, stop being so…icky #
- 21:39 @PeytonMcLane Yore = Those were the days of yore. #
- 21:44 Jayma Mays is weird, as she is not British in any way yet she uses a bunch of Brit slang and talks in some sort of weird accent. #
- 21:44 I noticed this on Conan last night but didn’t tweet it !
then. # - 21:46 @kissoffools haha reading that tweet was what reminded me to say what I said just now #
- 21:55 @LexiBadger aww. It was a redhead party what with Conan, her, and @SethGreen (the reason I watched) (duh) #
- 22:23 mmmmm oh my word DELICIOUS fluffy pancakes with whipped cream and blueberry syrup #
- 22:41 So a co worker got into a car accident today because someone backed their car into her…& all I can think of is youtu.be/zjYSERaXEGI #
- 22:43 Sometimes !
I have to wonder if perhaps I too much internet but then I think "naw, more internet!" # - 23:04 I will be so happy when people stop putting impact text on pictures of animals. Seriously. #
- 23:26 holy crap, my kitty kitty kitten could have killed me. I think the water is like, nonexistent now? but I’m basically terrified. #
- 00:33 If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the angry dome. #
- 00:44 is there a website with a list of all the wacky shit charlie sheen has said so far? #
- 00:45 @l!
ive2tivo so, he’s just a caricature of himself at this point, righ
t? # - 00:49 @live2tivo I just, I don’t even understand. There’s "lol crazy celebrity" and then there’s "oh my god, why has no one stopped this yet" #
- 00:54 @live2tivo World very weird. VERY VERY weird. When famous, please stay sane tally? #
- 00:55 Awesome. I totally wanted to watch an ad for stool softener. That is exactly what I expected when I had my volume up and opened a news video #
- 00:56 @live2tivo Oh good. That’s good. #
- 01:05 I’m in a Dolly Parton kinda mood. #
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Posted March 9th, 2011
The Tweets
- 12:42 Build a wall of books between us in our bed, repeat repeat the words that I know we both said #
- 12:42 @kurchenko omg it’s manmeet!!! #
- 13:28 Intercourse with you, I want to have intercooourse with you (relations!) #
- 15:33 @hereonyourshore #becauseitsfun #
- 17:20 @himymprod Victoria! Victoria! #
- 17:21 In brickbreaker, as in life, just because you SEE !
the paddle does not mean it is really there or will stop the ball. # - 17:24 @himymprod to add: Victoria bakes the cake for the wedding Ted is best-manning at. This is now how the series goes in my head. #
- 17:26 New himym theory: victoria marries a german dude and they make ted their best man and she makes the cake at their wedding this is my canon. #
- 17:30 I should put nutrients into self. What should I have? I really just want to eat cake. #
- 18:18 Mmmmm chocolate ice cream #
- 18:57!
Season 1 himym had so much heart. Where did it go? # - 22:01 "You need to learn the difference between headphones and a knife" #
- 01:36 I don’t say "no", I say "maybe". #
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Posted March 8th, 2011
The Tweets
- 10:43 Omg winter fuck off #
- 11:05 I hate you winter more than ANYTHING #
- 11:05 That’s a lie, I hate wind more than winter. #
- 11:38 oh my god shut up you are so obnoxious #
- 11:52 @PavlovDawning it’s so much bullshit #
- 17:45 Sometimes you have those moments when you realise what you have is EXACTLY what you have been looking for, forever. and it’s nice. #
- 18!
:34 @live2tivo no, my dad is the same way, er except I DO go out drinking so it’s not exactly the same
# - 20:31 I haven’t watched Eternal Sunshine in aaages. I would like to watch it tonight but I don’t want to watch it alone #
- 20:38 hmmmm, I really wanna watch dollhouse too. #
- 20:38 but if we’re being totally honest here, I’ve always preferred dollhouse fanfic to the actual show…so maybe I’ll just go read that. #
- 21:37 I may just end up watching eternal sunshine on my own and then bawling on twitter JUST AN FYI, GUYS #
- 21:40 @kissoffools kay! #
- 21:56 RT @radballs: How much coke did Charlie Sheen take? Enough to kill two and a half men. #
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Posted March 7th, 2011
The Tweets
- 13:32 Ra ra rasputin #
- 13:35 @kissoffools blackberry 9780 just make sure yours doesn’t have the keyboard stuttering problem #
- 17:39 Any time there is @SethGreen and @NathanFillion in the same room, I grow incredibly depressed that I am not also in that room D: #
- 17:40 @kurchenko lawrence #
- 17:41 @kurchenko a lot of names would actually, just stay away from 3 syllable names with the stress on the 2nd syllable #
- 17:50 @pedersencato burn it down #
- 19:22 @ryanqnorth there is no such thing #
- 20:03 @MelissaRobin119 how’s the new place? #
- 23:40 Snow is very bad. I really feel like we’re going to get in an accident and die. No one is taking me seriously either. #
- 00:04 @kissoffools Lucas is driving and I’m trying not to be anxious but I’m pretty anxious #
- 00:31 Omg. We mad
e it home. # - 00:31 That is, to lukes house and you bet I’m not driving home in this shit #
- 00:33 By the way guys Unknown is an awesome movie and continues to prove Liam Neeson is a BAMF #
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Posted March 6th, 2011
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