Several teenage girls were recently recorded on camera allegedly using dark makeup to mimic blackface inside a Sephora store in Boston, reports the NY Post.
The incident was captured in a viral TikTok video, where three girls were seen trying out makeup testers at the Prudential Center location. Two of the girls covered their faces with cosmetics specifically designed for darker skin tones. The video, which has since been made private, was filmed by Temi Ojora, a track and field athlete from the University of Southern California.
Ojora said the scene made her “genuinely so disgusted and disturbed.” “These group of teenage girls and their mothers come in and go to the makeup section to use the samples for blackface whilst giggling and making animal sounds,” Ojora wrote. “This is the stuff that ruins jobs, college acceptances, let alone how incredibly offensive this is,” a staff member says.
The chaperone dismissed the employee and later asked Temi Ojora to delete the video. The identities of the chaperone and the girls remain unknown. Sephora criticized the group for their offensive behavior “We are extremely disappointed by the behavior of these shoppers at our Prudential Center location, and as such, they were asked to leave our premises,” the company said in a statement. “Under no circumstance is this type of behavior tolerated at Sephora.”
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