Russian make-up artist, Elya Bulochka, has caused quite a bit of uproar by using dead fish on her model's faces in three make-up looks that she has posted on her Instagram account. Yes, actual real life fish. Which are dead. Stuck on their face.
We're not entirely sure why Elya did this, but since uploading the pictures she's had a lot of backlash with people leaving comments like 'wtf this is animal abuse!!!!!!!!!!', 'this is not art, just another stupid person killing animals for nothing. ANIMALS ARE NOT THINGS, WHY IS SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THAT? OMFG' and 'You are sick. Disgusting'.
But Elya hasn't backed down, instead responding to comments that asked if they were real with 'Yes, already dead. Same as in your dining saucers' and highlighting what she sees as double standards by saying 'Before commenting remember please the last time you eat meat and what it did before being eaten'.
We're not sure whether the the idea of the images was to generate a debate around the double standards in eating fish but not meat, but it's happened anyway and she's rolling with it.
According to the* Daily Mail*, in an Instagram picture that has since been deleted, Elya had held up a clear plastic bag holding the fish captioned 'Guess what I'm going to be wearing today?'
It's a shame because the make-up actually looks really great without the dead fish stuck to the models' faces - which emphasises how pointlessly cruel the whole thing is. And let's not forget the grossness that is sticking dead fish on your face in the first place.
Yep, not for us.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.