James Charles is drowning in drama with
his new makeup palette.
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daily. YouTube makeup artist James
Charles just released a new palette with
morphie and it's been riddled with
controversy. From the beginning with the
announcement video a conspiracy started
that James is using a fake palette. "The
swatches were fake why was a swatch
there before you swatch the shadow?
Money-hungry and fake period." The
backlash is based on this image of James
swatching / prelate makeup. "When he has
his arm up like this and he goes like
this, it looks like he's putting his
finger over it you can see a little
black outline here it does not look to
me that that is a shadow because if
there was a shadow, would not be as
prominent as like that black color." And
of course like with any makeup release
there are tons of youtubers who do
reviews. And some of the reviews were not
nice. But James is not letting the haters
get to him he tweeted this "I've gotten
really good at biting my tongue with
drama but it's been so hard watching
palette reviews and seeing tweets of
people just straight-up lying for
attention." And he took to Instagram to
debunk the theory once and for all.
"There is apparently some conspiracy
theory about me trying to hide at double
swatches that that I did in the video,
I did do double swatches in the video.
If I was trying to hide them, I would
have done a lot better editing them out.
I worked way too hard on this palette to have
anything being thrown around. I thought
it would do some live swatches here on
Instagram stories." James shows the colors
with no lights and no editing to prove
the quality of the product. He explained
that the colors are pressed pigments
that require special techniques that he
shows in the videos. "I have always said
every single video if you're using block,
be careful because adding too much can
quickly mess up any single look. So I
wanted to create a layer of all black
and that is exactly what I did. There is
no conspiracy theories." This beauty queen
is not hiding anything. And despite the
haters, James has a lot of supporters
including prominent youtubers like Laura
Lee, Tati and Roxas Soros who have all
claimed to be shook by how amazing the
palette is. Twitter's also back James up
with testimonials and photos. Like this
one from makeup by Ari who shared this
photo of her rainbow lid. And Kanin
Beauty who
shared his own dreamy creation. To give
some context, James Charles is no
stranger to drama.
After being crowned the first male
ambassador for covergirl cosmetics,
people quickly culture his title to be
revoked after a joke he made about his
upcoming trip to Africa the tweet has
since been removed but it said this "I
can't believe we're going in Africa
today oMG what if we get Ebola? James
were fine we could have gotten it at
Chipotle last year." James Charles also
had drama with Shawn Mendes and
Ariana Grande. And the kids from the
movie it. How could you have a fight with
the kids from the movie It? Regardless
James is still crushing it on his
YouTube channel and in his business.
Where he has amassed over 10 million
subscribers and constantly collabs with
high-profile celebs. Looks like he's not
hurting too much from any caddy backlash
from the Internet. And if anything, this
will force him to step it up in the
future. Like, if you've crappy products
you will be called out about it. Not
saying it's crappy because I haven't
tried it but just saying the people
speak. Maybe it's not, I don't know. Seems
like we're divided here. And I would say
a lot of people aren't professional so
James might want to create some makeup
for the noobs and the not so good makeup
people like me. So what do you think
about this latest makeup drama? Let us
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