Laura Lee, a beauty vlogger known in the beauty world for her friendship (and friendship drama) with other beauty heavyweights like Jeffree Star, Manny Gutierrez, Nikita Dragun, and Gabriel Zamora, has spent the week apologizing after old racist tweets resurfaced. As Revelist reports, she may be paying the price in the form of lost beauty contracts.
According to Revelist, Lee and her products seem to have been scrubbed from various beauty websites as brands work to distance themselves from her. Revelist scouted out Laura Lee and Laura Lee Los Angeles products across the web and found that her products are mysteriously missing from Ulta, ColourPop Cosmetics, Morphe, and BoxyCharm. As of press time, their results still hold. Lee is nowhere to be found on ColourPop, Ulta, or BoxyCharm, and her products are all (mysteriously?) sold out on Morphe. ColourPop told Allure they have no comment on the situation. Allure has also reached out to Ulta, BoxyCharm, and Morphe, and will update this post with their response.
The resurfaced tweets in question show Lee making racist remarks and using racial epithets. Beauty fans on Reddit are referring to the drama as "the tweet that launched a thousand wigs" and keeping track of lost follower count in the wake of the scandal. Reportedly, Laura Lee is down almost 419,000 followers.
For her part, Lee released a length apology statement on Twitter last week. "The insensitive retweet and tweets I made are inexcusable and I apologize from the bottom of my heart to anyone affected by them," she wrote in part. "The girl who tweeted that isn't who I am today."
https://twitter.com/Laura88Lee/status/1030936744873447426
— Laura Lee (@Laura88Lee) August 14, 2018
Lee followed up with an apology video on Tuesday. Watch it for yourself below:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PrWxrtBq15w
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PrWxrtBq15w
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