James Charles & Manny MUA apologize for \u201cchildish\u201d Alicia Keys drama Instagram: Manny Gutierrez \/ James CharlesBeauty gurus James Charles and Manny MUA have issued an apology to Alicia Keys, after speculation that they were \u2018shading\u2019 her in a series of tweets criticizing celeb makeup lines. Manny and James caused a stir on social media on August 5, when they each jumped on Twitter to voice their thoughts about \u201cpeople who don\u2019t wear makeup\u201d creating beauty brands. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDhlKDHnlvO\/ James was even forced to clarify to fans that he wasn\u2019t talking about his new friends Charli and Dixie D\u2019Amelio. These TikTok stars have recently launched their own makeup line with Morphe. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDhncZqn2mr\/ These tweets coincided with the announcement of Alicia Keys\u2019 new \u201clifestyle beauty brand.\u201d Alicia has been open about her decision not to wear makeup, so eagle-eyed followers soon figured out that she must be the subject of the YouTubers\u2019 tweets. The apology Those suspicions were confirmed on August 6, when both James and Manny posted apologies on Twitter. In these apologies, they directly named Alicia as the celebrity they were talking about. James said \u201cit wasn\u2019t my place to gatekeep this industry\u201d and expressed he\u2019s glad he deleted his \u201cchildish\u201d tweets. Manny similarly regretted thinking the range was a \u201ccash grab\u201d and apologized \u201cfor being so quick to make a judgment.\u201d in regards to my tweet yesterday \u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/gO1CFNL2id \u2014 Manny MUA (@MannyMua733) August 6, 2020 To add insult to injury, E.L.F revealed that the beauty line was a skincare range, not makeup as originally suspected. In his apology, James made reference to this mistake, saying \u201cwho BETTER to talk about keeping your skin clear without makeup\u201d than bare-faced Alicia. At the time of writing, Alicia has not responded to either the original comments made, or the apology. It seems the two controversial stars may have learned their lesson this time around. But the next controversy is never far away when it comes to the beauty community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles & Manny MUA apologize for \u201cchildish\u201d Alicia Keys drama Instagram: Manny Gutierrez \/ James CharlesBeauty gurus James Charles and Manny MUA have issued an apology to Alicia Keys, after speculation that they were \u2018shading\u2019 her in a series of tweets criticizing celeb makeup lines. Manny and James caused a stir on social media […]<\/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-51783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783","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=51783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}