{"id":38686,"date":"2019-04-04T05:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38686"},"modified":"2019-04-04T05:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:22:22","slug":"rihannas-fenty-pulls-geisha-chic-highlighter-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38686","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna&#8217;s Fenty pulls &#8216;Geisha Chic&#8217; highlighter after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>A cosmetics brand founded by Rihanna says it pulled a planned makeup product after it was criticized as an appropriation of Asian culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Geisha Chic,&#8221; a shade of highlighter by the singer and actor&#8217;s Fenty Beauty, first appeared on Instagram late last week. Some fashion accounts, including the verified makeup news account TrendMood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/trendmood1\/\" target=\"_blank\">shared images of the item<\/a>. It was advertised as one of Fenty&#8217;s new &#8220;Killawatt&#8221; highlighters, which are shimmery products that can be used to draw attention to certain facial features. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Several Instagram users weren&#8217;t happy. The name recalled the Japanese geisha tradition, a group of women that for centuries worked as entertainers and paid companions in the country. Other western brands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/karlie-kloss-vogue_n_58a3853fe4b094a129f01f15\" target=\"_blank\">have been accused of misusing the term and geisha imagery<\/a> in the past.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)A cosmetics brand founded by Rihanna says it pulled a planned makeup product after it was criticized as an appropriation of Asian culture.&#8221;Geisha Chic,&#8221; a shade of highlighter by the singer and actor&#8217;s Fenty Beauty, first appeared on Instagram late last week. Some fashion accounts, including the verified makeup news account TrendMood,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}