She may have big, fat lips, but is Kylie Jenner also a big, fat liar??
As you may know by now, the KUWTK star has a HUGE makeup empire where girls go crazy over her lip kits, palettes, and eyeshadow!
However, makeup artist Vlada Haggerty believes the famous pouter has blatantly stolen her ideas without giving her any credit!
It all started back in December when Miz Jenner shared an image on the Kylie Cosmetics Instagram account announcing her new line of metallic lip kits.
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It turns out the image was from Haggerty who posted the artwork 16 months ago, way before Ky released any products!
A photo posted by Vlada Haggerty (@vladamua) on Jul 27, 2015 at 12:27pm PDT
When Kylie’s team began getting comments about the stolen snap, they edited the caption to say “inspo by @vladamua.” Ultimately, the pic was deleted from the Cosmetics page altogether.
Vlada claims Kylie’s people NEVER contacted her about using the pic, which she believes is an act of “theft.” She said:
“Crediting artists is essential, but this goes beyond that. It’s theft. This is our livelihood. I see these things happen too many times to artists. We are all trying to make it, and this business is extremely competitive. I would ask anyone at this level use the proper channels to obtain images.”
Aside from this incident, the logo on Jenner’s lip kits resembles an image Vlada posted two years ago. In case you aren’t familiar, this is Kylie’s product:
A photo posted by Kylie Cosmetics (@kyliecosmetics) on Oct 29, 2016 at 7:56am PDT
And this is Vlada’s image:
A photo posted by Vlada Haggerty (@vladamua) on Jun 24, 2014 at 10:44pm PDT
Recently, Tyga‘s girlfriend has been accused YET AGAIN of stealing Vlada’s work to promote her new holiday line. Haggerty quickly pointed out the similarities in the following side-by-side:
Really @kyliecosmetics? Haven’t you gotten enough ‘inspiration’ from me already? Left is a the work @juliakuzmenko, @brittrafuson and I shot a few months ago and right is @kyliecosmetics new campaign.A photo posted by Vlada Haggerty (@vladamua) on Nov 19, 2016 at 8:18pm PST
Do y’all think Kylie is a copycat?? SOUND OFF in the comments section (below)!
[Image via Kylie Jenner/Instagram.]
