Victory! Sephora Bans Mink Eyelashes
BREAKING: Following e-mails from more than 280,000 concerned shoppers like you and a campaign by PETA and its international affiliates, Sephora has confirmed that it has banned fur eyelashes—including mink lashes! The beauty giant will purchase only synthetic or faux-fur lashes going forward.
Fact: There’s no difference between a mink coat and mink lashes when it comes to animal suffering.
We’re celebrating Sephora’s decision to join Tarte, Too Faced, Urban Decay, and the scores of other brands that know that shy, solitary minks should be left in peace to forage, climb, and swim and that stealing an animal’s fur is ugly.
Mink fur typically comes from fur farms, which are often laden with maggots, feces, and dead animals (along with COVID-19 now, too). PETA’s undercover investigations have revealed that on these hellish, filthy farms, stressed minks frantically pace and circle endlessly inside small wire cages—during one eyewitness exposé, a mink even chewed through a cage until her face was bloody.
In the fur industry, minks sometimes languish with infections and broken or malformed legs. Some even self-mutilate as a result of the intensive confinement, chewing into their own legs or tails. At the end of their miserable lives, they’re gassed or anally electrocuted or their necks are broken (the cheapest killing methods available). Despite this, Sephora marketed mink lashes as “cruelty-free.”
Cruelty-free? Try cruelty overload.
Cruelty-free false lashes are not only affordable and accessible, they’ll also add the perfect touch to your dramatic or everyday look, and will help you get your glam on—compassionately. Check out this guide to cruelty-free lashes.
