Hailey Bieber Is In Hot Water Over Her Latest Beauty Trend
Hailey Bieber, who recently launched a skincare line called Rhode, is still committed to making "glazed donut" (her words, not ours) beauty a thing — but a whole lot of social media users are not finding the model's latest TikTok beauty tutorial quite so sweet.
Bieber launched the "glazed donut skin" trend with the release of her skincare line this summer, according Harper's Bazaar, meant to evoke the dewy glazed look of skin that has just been liberally treated with product. The baby entrepreneur kept the glazed donut metaphor going when she unveiled her "chocolate glazed donut" nails, per Bazaar — a shimmery, cocoa brown manicure that instantly took off as a trend among the beauty influencer set.
But when the model tried to bring her glazed donut aesthetic to lip color with a TikTok tutorial, the social media app took off with accusations that Bieber's "brownie" lipgloss look was a form of cultural appropriation.
Hailey Bieber is accused of stealing a Latina look
On TikTok, Hailey Bieber called her lipgloss look — featuring heavy, dark brown liner under sheer gloss — "brownie glazed lips." But in comments and stitches responding to the tutorial, other TikTokers called Bieber's look a white lady's rebrand of a makeup look Latina women have been wearing for decades.
"It doesn't hit the right way when you try to pass on a brown lip liner as your own idea and call it a 'brownie' lip liner when this has very obviously been created by women of color, considering how long women of color had to fight for brands to stop naming darker shades after food," said one TikToker in a video response, per Page Six. "Yeah, I'm so flattered that Hailey Bieber always gets inspired by my community, by the POC community, but it just irks me that because she's done it now, it's gonna become so trendy," stated another. In the comments, many Latina users noted that their "tias" actually invented this look, like one who wrote, "my mom, tia's and primas have been rocking that look since the 90's."
Bieber joins other white models and influencers who have been criticized for capitalizing on beauty trends started by women of color. Kylie Jenner, who enlarged the size of her lips with filler and then became a billionaire for her "lip kits" has been accused of "Blackfishing" more times than we can count — for example as outlined here in Teen Vogue.