Like LIPTON TEA??? Bet you wont after reading this post....

I was seriously disturbed after reading this email that I got from PETA regarding Lipton Tea and what they do to poor innocent BABY animals. I never assumed that tea making processes would require the use of animals but boy was I wrong....and whattaya know? The company behind Lipton is UNILEVER! The same company that allows BAD BRANDS like DOVE, SUAVE, CALVIN KLEIN and ELIZABETH ARDEN to test on animals.
Here is the email, please read and take to heart. Thank You.

"Before taking your next sip of tea, check the label on the tea box or bottle because you might discover that you are drinking a cupful of cruelty to animals. The company behind Lipton teas has been testing (and paying others to test) tea—a beverage that has been consumed for thousands of years—on animals. The tea giant has caused animals to suffer and die simply to make marketing claims about its tea products and ingredients. Not one of the experiments that the company conducted was legally required for beverage makers, and regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.

In these cruel and painful tests, rabbits, mice, rats, and piglets were tortured and then killed by decapitation and suffocation, among other methods. Following are more of the horrific details about what happened to the animals who were used in the company's experiments:

• Rabbits were fed a high-fat, cholesterol-laden diet, leading to extreme hardening of the arteries. They were then fed tea to see if it affected the lesions that formed on the animals' arteries. After the experiment, the rabbits' heads were cut off.

• Mice bred to suffer from a painful bowel inflammation were fed tea ingredients in order to see if the tea had any effect on their condition. After the test, experimenters killed the mice by suffocating them or breaking their necks.

• Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it had an impact on their sugar-induced brain damage. Other rats had their abdominal wall punctured and were fed radioactively labeled tea ingredients through a tube in their stomachs in order to examine the absorption of tea in the body. Then they were killed, frozen with liquid nitrogen, and crushed.

• Piglets were exposed to E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea affected fluid loss and diarrhea. As part of the tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive. The piglets were then killed.

Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and in use by other leading beverage companies around the world. We need YOU to join us in telling the makers of Lipton to ditch its crueltea to animals and use non-animal methods instead.
Send an e-mail to Dave Lewis, dave.lewis@unilever.com, president of Unilever Americas (Lipton's parent company), and politely ask him to stop testing tea and tea ingredients on animals. If your message can't be delivered, please e-mail the company using its contact form. 

Also, make sure that your voice is heard by calling Dave Lewis' office at 201-567-8000. (Please note that offices are only open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET.)

Sample e-mail text is provided below to help you draft your message.
Subject:
Stop Cruel Tea Experiments on Animals 
Body:
I was shocked to learn that your company, which makes Lipton tea, experiments on animals simply to make health claims about its tea products and ingredients. In the experiments, piglets were infected with E. coli and had their intestines cut apart while the animals were still alive; rats were fed a high-sugar diet, causing them to develop brain damage; and rabbits were fed a cholesterol-laden diet, causing them to develop hardened arteries, and then had their heads cut off.

U.S. and international regulators do not require the makers of food and beverages to conduct tests on animals.

The makers of Honest Tea, Twinings, Stash Tea, Luzianne Tea, and other companies have all sent PETA written confirmation that they do not test their teas or ingredients on animals.

Please stop these cruel and outdated tests and institute a policy against conducting and funding tea tests on animals. I won't buy Lipton tea products—and will only support tea brands that don't test on animals—until your company stops testing tea and tea ingredients on animals."

Can you just fucking imagine that cruel shit!? It makes me sick to my stomach. I hate this company with a burning passion. Sick Fucks. I hope this inspires you all to take action. These actions are UNACCEPTABLE and needs to be stopped ASAP. For more info, please go here: http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/Tell-Lipton-Tea-to-Stop-Torturing-Animals.aspx

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FOTD & kitty pictures!!!

Beauty bloggers - have you ever took a million pictures for a FOTD and ended up liking only 2? This was one of those posts for me lol. Heres a look I did yesterday when I got to hang out with a few of my very best friends. I used MAC's prolongwear foundation for the first time and I loved it. The finish of ProlongWear is feels way better than ColorStay. The only thing I didnt like was that when I took these pictures with flash, the flash made my face look 3 shades lighter than my neck! Hopefully these pictures dont reflect how it looks in person.

 My eyeliner is a little lot messed up here lol...I used Milani's Infinite liner (similiar to liquidlast, see comparison/swatches here) and when it dries it DRIES! The only way to remove it is with a cleansing oil..So when applying it I noticed I did the wing of it uneven to my left eye so I just tried to save it my applying a new line which only made it worst! I didnt bother so start over though because it wasnt noticeable unless I was looking down..and plus, I was with my besties...Im sure they wouldnt mine even if I wore lime green squiggly eyeliner :)

Heres what I used:

Face:

MAC Prolongwear foundation in NW30

MAC Prolongwear concealer in NW25

Wet N Wild Bronzer in Goddess for contour

Eyes:

ELF eyelid primer

NYX smokey brown all over lid

ELF Beauty Encyclopedia pictured below (see review/swatches here)

- Dark Brown blended into crease

- Beige for inner tear duct and browbone

Milani Infinite Eyeliner in Everlast

MAC zoomlash

Eyebrows:

ELF eyeliner in Ash

Cheeks:

Nyx Blush in pinched

Lips:

Nada! These were the only decent pics and they were all before I applied lipstick. I ended up using Cut-A-Caper, my new favorite!

Also, saturday I went to my parents house for a small dinner with my mom side because my mom got the new dancing game for Kinect and she wanted us all to play. It was so much fun! Im actually still sore from playing that and the sports one. My auntie liked it so much she bought one for herself and we're all going to her house for dinner tomorrow to play again. I wish I remembered I had my camera in my bag the while time! When I realized it was in there everyone left already so I took a bunch of pictures of my sisters cute kitty Sugar Pie. She is a 7 month old persian and absolutely adorable! My sister named her Sugar pie since my cat (who lives there) is named Honey, so now we call my cat Honey Bunch :) I miss her sooooo bad! I couldnt take her with me cuz my guy is allergic and it kills me everyday!!! I keep thinking of just taking her back and when my man comes home Ill just tell him, "Well MY cat isnt allergic to YOU!!!" lol Its okay thought, he said we can get a cat on my birthday. (Hes only allergic to certain cats) I couldnt get any good pictures of my little Honey cat but heres some pics of Sugar Pie

Hope you all are having a great start to the week! Thanks for reading!

♥ Leah

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