consider making your own or looking on etsy because LUSH is a horrible misogynistic company that is similar to and supports PETA.
(warning for images of a woman being ‘tortured’ and then a video at the bottom of the article)
http://feminspire.com/lush-cosmetics-kind-to-animals-not-to-women/

for those who don’t want to click: basically they stage public displays of physically abusing women (or mock-abusing them) as stunts to show how awful animal testing is

oh my god. Quick google searches DESTROY THESE ARGUMENTS.

This is a screenshot taken from the LUSH facebook page. Wow. Look. They don’t support PETA. This is real. Source here.

Secondly, they do NOT “STAGE PHYSICAL DISPLAY(S)!!” There was one very large publicity stunt in which a paid performer who fully consented signed up to pretend to be tested and effected in the same way animals are. This is not because they hate women. Here is an article from The Huffington Post: 

"Jacqueline Traides, 24, spent about 10 hours this week in the window of Lush Cosmetics' Regent Street store in Central London. During the ordeal, she was subjected to force-feeding, injections, hair shaving and other uncomfortable procedures — often while restrained — reported the International Business Times.

[…]

Traides said, “I hope it will plant the seed of a new awareness in people to really start thinking about what they go out and buy and what goes into producing it.”

Lush’s Fighting Animal Testing campaign was clear that the London demonstration’s mission was “intended to shock.” Emphasizing their opposition to animal testing, the group wrote:

When we are forced to recognise that this aspirational industry depends upon the needless suffering and death of millions of innocent animals – animals that could have been our dog, our children’s guinea pigs, our neighbours’ rabbits – animals that we humanely love – we are shocked and we recoil.”

Please stop spreading false information. Please don’t slander a company that tries really hard to be charitable, whose employees protested the lack of indictment for Darren Wilson,  a company that’s good. 

also worth pointing out that a) Traides, as well as signing up for it and being paid, was free to walk out at any point, and b) Lush are like a major major employer of LGBT people so like… think about who you’re throwing under the bus here

I would be way more receptive to “offensive” art if it ever had anything of value to say

but all I ever see is a lot of my fellow white people jerking off to how they can be so “edgy”, how they can get away with being racist and calling it “satire”, because they didn’t MEAN to be racist! It’s just their freedom of speech! Like heyyy they can draw Mohammad even though someone said not to! Look how revolutionary we are! so wise and educated and beyond these ~savage religious ideals~!

Like.. WHY do you need to depict someone’s prophet? WHY do you need to draw hook-nosed caricatures and call it “satire”? What are you saying with this that’s not just “look at this scary, stupid brown person”? Why can’t you think of something smarter than falling back on pathetic, over-used, hurtful tropes, if you really have something of value to say? 

and when people start to ask those questions, the artist gets mad. The fans get mad. People who laughed at that art get mad. Because you’re taking it too seriously. You’re too sensitive. You don’t “get” it. It’s too soon to talk about these things.

But I’m pretty sure they only reason they have to get upset is that they have no fucking answers and didn’t expect to be held accountable. They just wanted to draw something they don’t actually understand the merit of in an offensive manner, because they think it’s easier to get a cheap laugh than to hold yourself responsible for what you make. If you aren’t with them, you’re censoring them, and you should shut up. But here’s the thing: you aren’t being risky or saying something revolutionary by creating shock value, racist bullshit. You’re maintaining status quo.  

Well intentioned cartoonist friends please stop reblogging and drawing #JeSuisCharlie posts. 

If your only response after a major terrorist attack is to align yourself with the racist cartoon publication in the face of the monolithic bogeyman of ‘terrorism’ instead of worrying about the safety of your fellow cartoonists who will be racially profiled, then you’re part of the problem.

You not only make muslim cartoonists feel unsafe in our field but all of the people who will inevitably be racially profiled after these tragic events. 

It’s a gender-neutral replacement for ‘boyfriend’ or ‘girlfriend’ but it’s less awkward than ‘partner.’

Plus it’s actually a really cute word okay and I like it

this is AAVE and it’s not up to white folks to “tolerate” it you’re actually not supposed to use it at all if you’re not Black jfc

Cool how people feel the need to justify “tolerating AAVE, lol.