Real Headline: How Do You Do Your Makeup After An Acid Attack?

Believe it or not… This is a real headline from the BBC. The UK is screwed.

Real Headline: How Do You Do Your Makeup After An Acid Attack?

What is the next headline? – How to make your wheelchair look great after getting hit by a peaceful van and being paralyzed.

From BBC News:

How do you do your make-up after an acid attack?

Should I use primer as well as foundation? Will mascara do, or is it a false eyelash day? Many of us ask ourselves these questions every day, bleary-eyed before work or in front of a mirror for a night out.

But what do you when your beauty practices are disrupted, perhaps forever?

Business student Resham Khan survived an acid attack on her 21st birthday in London in July, sustaining burns to her face and body and damage to her left eye. Since then she has been blogging about what her make-up and beauty routine is like.

https://twitter.com/ReshKhan_/status/903976914251120640

After pictures of Resham celebrating Eid were shared in national media, she revealed the tough reality of what it took to prepare for the photographs and posted photographs of herself without make-up.

“First of all I just wanted to make clear that what you see on the internet isn’t real,” Resham wrote in a post on Wednesday.

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