So I’m sure we’ve all seen lash companies or makeup
companies selling and advertising what they insist are completely “cruelty free”
animal hair lashes. I’ve personally been
contacted to affiliate with a lash company – no, I’m not gonna be name dropping
here 😉. I’m in no way pretending to be famous here,
we all know I’m not! But if I’m being contacted, god knows how many other
bloggers are as well!
In contact with a particular lash company, I was assured
that their product was completely made from the seasonal sheddings of “free
range” minks on a farm. Really? I wasn’t exactly born yesterday, and I can’t
imagine a hundred minks running free on a farm to be carefully combed out for
shedded fur. It just can’t be a reality. So I did a little research, and it’s absolutely
not. While these lashes are being touted
as long wearing, natural looking and a good beauty investment as they can be
reused, the fact remains that companies are simply not being transparent about
the production process.
A quick google search later, and I found Mandy Carter
writing for “The Dodo”. As she says in her informative piece, there is no such
thing as a free-range mink farm. They are aggressive animals that cannot be
allowed to “free range” with each other. It’s behaviorally impossible. The
reality is they’re kept in tiny wire cages, deprived of natural habitat and
basic quality of life. Mandy contacted several companies that purported to
selling these so called “cruelty free” mink lashes, and was unable to get any
response as to the realities of their true cruelty free status.
Gabriella from Glamby.weebly.com also wrote an excellent piece
on the realities of fur farming, and I would encourage you to check her page
out for more info as well.
Interestingly enough, many of these so called mink lashes
are actually synthetic and not true mink. Due to the harvesting process,
authentic mink lashes are typically extremely expensive and are mainly imported
from China, according to eyelashlab.com. If a brand is selling them on the
cheap online, they are probably lying twice over about the product.
The fact is that there is no way to actually verify these
lashes are cruelty free at all, and in all likely hood came at enormous
suffering to the animal. Fur farming conditions are horrific, the animals being
caged tightly, terrified and eventually outright killed for their fur. There is
no kindness here. There are so many better, kinder options to wear on your face
than mink lashes. Some popular favorites I always see being recommended are by
ELF, Urban Decay, and Ardell. Check out
the final link below to find Peta’s list of the best cruelty free lash options!
Don’t just take my word for it- check out these helpful
sources:
https://www.thedodo.com/ethical-mink-fur-eyelashes-1117255634.html
https://www.thedodo.com/ethical-mink-fur-eyelashes-1117255634.html
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