Viraldice: Parents Are Horrified After Discovering That Makeup From This Famous Teen Retailer Contains Poisonous Asbestos

2017 has been the year of makeup.

If it's not Kylie Jenner's Lip Kits, it's Rihanna's Fenty Beauty, which has taken makeup stores by storm. Now, more than ever, young women are dying for the perfect face, and they're willing to shell out a lot to achieve it.

You only have to look at the popularity of beauty bloggers such as Michelle Phan, who makes over $3 million a year, and has over 10 million subscribers across different social media platforms, to understand the new power that makeup has achieved in the zeitgeist.

And retailers are cashing in.

Kylie Jenner made $420 million off her lip kits before she turned 20. Rihanna made a reported $72 million off Fenty Beauty… in one month.

With all this cash flowing in, you’d think retailers were taking precautions with their cosmetics, right? You’d think they’d make sure their cosmetics were absolutely, positively a hundred percent safe, right?

 

And even if they weren’t safe, you’d think the cosmetics would have only minor problems, like too much oil base, or maybe staph-causing bacteria.

Actually, wait, that’s sort of really bad…

In any event, one Rhode Island mom found out the hard way that cosmetics aren’t necessarily safe, and what she found led to the mass recall of several products by a beloved teen retailer.