Thanks to the internet, the beauty tutorials flourish on the web, providing good advice…but also more risky make-up techniques. For some time now, some beauty bloggers and youtubers have been recommending using the famous Crayola crayons for a makeup Rainbow. They proceed by melting the pencils broken into pieces with coconut oil and petroleum jelly, to obtain a homogeneous paste.
But if the idea may please, given the range of colors available, it is however not very recommendable for the skin.
And that’s what the brand now wants to insist on. On her website, she points out that “it is strongly recommended not to use them to make lipstick, eyeliner or any other make-up product. “They have not been created, tested and approved for this use,” adds the brand. Because if the products comply with the standards, they are simply tested with the aim of being used by children to draw, and only for this use. Make-up products require different tests, depending on the areas of the skin concerned.
Asked by France Info, Carole Chachuat, marketing director of Crayola in France, also wanted to recall the primary function of these colored pencils: “These are not products for make-up, but products for children, for the colouring, drawing… but not on the skin. We do not control at all the consequences that can have the use of Crayola products as makeup. We would not like to be associated with this image of a product dangerous to health, since it is not our vocation. »
By these statements, the company intends to decline all responsibility for any allergic accidents related to this unsuitable practice.
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