‘Mink Stinks!’ Korean-American Drag Race Finalist Stars in PETA Faux Lashes Campaign

Seoul — Oh no she better don’t wear lashes that hurt animals! As everyone prepared to glam up and go out for New Year’s Eve, RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Kim Chi starred in a PETA campaign urging everyone to avoid cruelly derived mink-fur lashes and instead reach for luxe synthetic or faux-fur options, for which no animal had to suffer and die.

“I’m all for being extra, but not at the cost of someone else’s life,” Kim Chi says. “Join me and say no to mink lashes and yes to being fierce and ethical.”

While most lashes are vegan, some companies use fur from minks, who are confined to filthy, cramped wire cages until they’re killed and skinned, sometimes while they’re still alive. PETA US’ Bunny Free app notes which companies are vegan—free of fur and other animal-derived ingredients—and that are among the more than 6,000 companies around the world that have banned all animal tests, in which substances are applied to animals’ eyes and shaved skin, sprayed in their faces, or forced down their throats.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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