Last month, Kat Von D released a new eyeliner called “Basket Case.”
No one said boo about the beauty product at the time, but now the liner — named for the Green Day song and even featuring Billie Joe Armstrong in the advertising — is getting the wrong kind of attention.
Related: Remember When Kat Called Her Lipstick ‘Underage Red’? Now THAT Was A Scandal…
An Instagram user calling herself Holly Quinn laid out a case against Kat as making light of mental health issues and specifically exploiting the images of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk idols who infamously suffered from mental illness — and died violently in their early twenties.
The punk fan’s message was clearly enough to raise Kat’s hackles, as she commented on the post (below):
Kat clearly was upset by the criticism, as she wrote multiple comments, going an eye for an eyeliner by responding to every individual point:
The comments following seemed to be mixed, but we can’t help but think far fewer people would have seen this post if Kat hadn’t jumped in…
Eesh. Gurl, you cannot let folks on the Internet get you riled up like this! People gonna have their opinions!
What do YOU think of this war of words??
[Image via Instagram.]