Mashable writer just called nudes for women of colour “poopy”

Predicting how your readers will react to your articles is difficult, even knowing who they are in the first place is tricky, so when a Mashable writer called brown nail varnish ‘poopy’ she probably thought no one would disagree with her.

The article, entitled “How to pull off the ugliest fall nail colors,” also listed sea sick green, rotten pumpkin orange and dirty penny bronze among undesirable varnish options, and tried to help readers avoid looking like they were “wear[ing] the bathroom on [their] nails.”

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Ten Money Saving Beauty Tips the Beauty Companies Don’t Want You to Know

The Beauty Industry is a business like any other.

Executives sit in endless meetings trying to find new ways to sell us the same old products, for new problems we didn’t know we had.

Behind the glow of photoshopped celebs and miracle elixirs, it is a business which relies on us believing in its magic to succeed. Allow me to reverse the spell, just for a short while, in the interest of saving you a penny or two…

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