James Charles apologizes to Lauren Conrad for \u201cnasty\u201d Instagram rant Instagram: Lauren Conrad \/ James CharlesBeauty guru James Charles has issued an apology to TV personality Lauren Conrad, following his public rant after receiving a PR box of empty makeup products from her new range. Earlier in August, James had already come under fire for criticizing celebrity makeup brands when he subtweeted singer Alicia Keys for releasing a \u201cmakeup brand\u201d that later turned out to only be a skincare range. He publicly named Alicia as being the celebrity he\u2019d subtweeted, and apologized for considering the new line to be a \u201ccash grab.\u201d James also said: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t [his] place to gatekeep this industry.\u201d He called his previous tweets \u201cchildish\u201d and insisted he is \u201cnot the gatekeeper of makeup.\u201d However, on August 20 James uploaded an Instagram story in which he berated a PR box that was sent to him by a \u201cnew makeup brand from somebody who has no business having a makeup brand.\u201d He showed fans an unsealed tube of what was meant to be highlighter with no product inside it. He also demonstrated that there\u2019s \u201cno actual ink in the eyeliner pen.\u201d The beauty influencer ends with a plea to \u201cstop making makeup brands!\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1296310880884232192 This time the turnaround for an apology was much quicker, only a few hours later uploading a written apology on his Instagram story, naming Lauren Conrad publicly. He says he\u2019s \u201cbeen on the verge of tears all day\u201d and that opening the half-hearted PR package was the \u201cicing on the cake\u201d for weird things to happen that day, ultimately causing the public outburst. \u201cMy stories talking about the products were supposed to be funny but they just came across as nasty,\u201d he continues. According to James, he and Lauren \u201cspoke privately about the misunderstanding and are both good.\u201d For now, the frustrated rant remains up on his Instagram story alongside his apology in an apparent move to remain transparent about his mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles apologizes to Lauren Conrad for \u201cnasty\u201d Instagram rant Instagram: Lauren Conrad \/ James CharlesBeauty guru James Charles has issued an apology to TV personality Lauren Conrad, following his public rant after receiving a PR box of empty makeup products from her new range. Earlier in August, James had already come under fire for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}