Italian beauty brand Wycon faces heavy criticism for naming black nail polish ?Thick as a N*gga?
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In today's Are You Dumb? beauty drama news, Italian cosmetics brand Wycon is facing deserved scrutiny after naming one of its nail polishes "Thick As A N***a" ? and the shade in question was black, of course!
We have a lot of questions regarding who thought this was a good idea ? but above all, dear god, WHY?
At press time, the racist name had been pulled from the company's website but not before plenty of people already had their receipts in order.
After more people demanded answers, Forbes reports the brand issued this follow-up statement: ?We?re sorry that this post has triggered these types of reactions: every color from our Gel On collection is inspired, with a cheerful attitude and a pinch of naivety, by famous song titles, many of which derive from the landscape of hip hop. For example 'Drop it like it?s hot' by Snoop Dogg, 'Bootilicious' (sic) by Beyonc?, 'Candy Shop' by 50 Cent, Lollipop, Lady Marmalade etc? The reference here is 'Thick N***a' (sic) by DBangz. Wycon is the brand for everybody #nobodyexcluded is our motto and we didn?t mean to offend anybody!?
Still nope, but good one, because this anti-apology is somehow worse than the original. People always seem to conflate "naivety" with racism in order to absolve themselves of blame. Interesting!
The product is still up, but all so-called "crazy" names have been changed in favor of numbers.
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Irrelevant brand.
Women need to just by everything Fenty and stop fucking with the white owned messes.
tears.
The fact that they really invest money to put out these products thinking it'll fly over just fine shows how CLUELESS some White people are.
Bringing me back to that whole "Cook Like a Thug" cookbook mess.
Haha! Ebonics! It's only bad if you use the one with "er" at the end! LMAO!
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Quote from: Sl?Venchy on January 21, 2018, 01:22:10 PM
Irrelevant brand.
Women need to just by everything Fenty and stop fucking with the white owned messes.
They knew what they were doing
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Girl. They saw the H&M headlines and attention and simply wanted IN on the mess. No dice
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Quote from: 1RIG on January 21, 2018, 03:45:23 PM
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Girl. They saw the H&M headlines and attention and simply wanted IN on the mess. No dice
!!!
Bad press is better than no press at all
But this is the day and age we live in
The word isn?t offensive anymore
Quote from: M??D?? on January 21, 2018, 03:51:46 PM
Quote from: 1RIG on January 21, 2018, 03:45:23 PM
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Girl. They saw the H&M headlines and attention and simply wanted IN on the mess. No dice
!!!
Bad press is better than no press at all
Fckn sick of white owned companies
bye
Europe, its people and it's influence as a whole is problematic. Terrible place