Forget Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian‘s spat — there’s another online feud that’s dividing the beauty industry.
Former LA Ink star, tattoo artist and cosmetics creator Kat Von D has publicly distanced herself from fellow makeup artist Jeffree Star over his “bullying” attitude, releasing a “tell-all” YouTube video.
In the video and accompanying Instagram post, Von D declared their nearly 10-year friendship over.
“After years of making excuses for and rationalising Jeffree’s inappropriate behaviour (including promoting drug use, racism, and bullying) I can no longer hold my tongue after recent events,” she wrote.
A former MySpace musician and founder of Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Star has recently faced accusations of bullying through comments he made against fellow YouTubers who had given his range of liquid lipsticks, lip scrubs and eyeshadows negative reviews.
Yassssss #makeupporn brought to you by @milkamireille ???????????? #beautykiller #skinfrost #jeffreestarcosmetics A photo posted by Jeffree Star (@jeffreestar) on Jul 7, 2016 at 4:38pm PDT
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My biggest issue with him is there was a video doing the rounds of him saying he wanted to bleach a black ladies skin white with acid :( he can be truly vile. Just have to read his tweets or comments to his followers.
I can kind of see why Kat felt the need to publicly distance herself though. Their brands have been closely linked in the past and I get the feeling he's going to go down pretty quickly for his actions, so you wouldn't want to be apart of that.
I will never understand why this sort of thing needs to be played out in public. If you have a problem with someone, talk to them about it, deal with it, move on. Don't create more drama by posting shit about it online. Grow up.