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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Selena Gomez accused of SHADING Hailey Bieber following sale of her beauty brand Rhode
Selena Gomez has been accused of shading Hailey Bieber following the sale of her beauty brand Rhode. News hit the web earlier this week that Hailey's company was being acquired by E.l.f. Cosmetics in a massive, $1 billion deal. The mom-of-one, 28, will still serve as founder of the brand as well as Chief Creative Officer and Head of Innovation. Just one day after the announcement, Selena's cosmetics company Rare Beauty posted two snaps of Selena and simply captioned them with, 'Still here.' One of the images showed the Bad Liar songstress blowing a kiss towards the camera, while another featured her starring into the lens with a sultry look on her face. Many fans became convinced that Selena, 32, was subtly poking fun at Hailey's sale with the post, and they were not amused. Hailey's supporters quickly flooded the replies of the post with angry messages. 'It seems like Hailey is always on her mind. Pathetic,' one outraged user wrote. 'The way she's actually shady as hell,' added another. 'She actually pisses me off. Like MOVE ON UR A GROWN A** WOMAN,' scathed someone else. 'At this point you might as well tag her,' a fourth tweet read. 'Omfg this girl won't miss an opportunity to shade… she needs attention so bad,' a fifth said. A different user penned, 'It doesn't seem like the behavior of someone who claims to be a girl's girl.' 'She is so mean. This is so unnecessary,' someone else wrote. has reached out to Rare Beauty for comment. Hailey launched her much-anticipated brand in June 2022, releasing only three products at the time - Peptide Glazing Fluid, Barrier Restore Cream, and Peptide Lip Treatment. Many fans became convinced that Selena, 32, was subtly poking fun at Hailey's sale with the post, and they were not amused. Since then, the brand has grown exponentially, expanding into different tinted lip products, blush, and even viral phone cases that double as lip gloss carriers. 'E.l.f. Beauty found a like-minded disruptor in Rhode,' said E.l.f. Chairman and CEO Tarang Amin Wednesday, per Business Wire. 'Rhode further diversifies our portfolio with a fast-growing brand that makes the best of prestige accessible,' his statement continued. 'We are excited by Rhode's ability to break beauty barriers, fully aligning with E.l.f. Beauty's vision to create a different kind of company. Rhode is a beautiful brand that we believe is ready for rocketship growth.' Following the news, Hailey took to Instagram to break her silence on the monumental deal. 'When I launched @rhode in 2022, I always had big dreams for the company, and the most important thing to me is to keep bringing Rhode to more spaces, places, and faces globally,' she wrote in the caption, which was accompanied by two pictures of her. 'So today I am so incredibly excited and proud to announce that we are partnering with E.l.f. Beauty as we step into this next chapter in the world of Rhode. 'I found a like-minded disruptor with a vision to be a different kind of company that believes in big ideas and innovation in the same way that I do and will help us continue to grow the brand. 'I feel invigorated, excited and more ready than ever to step into an even bigger role as Chief Creative Officer, and Head of Innovation of Rhode as well as strategic advisor to E.l.f. Beauty.' Selena and Hailey have long been pitted against each other due to their shared romantic link with Hailey's husband Justin Bieber. However, both beauty founders have made attempts to quash the narrative with statements on social media and in the press. Last week, Selena seemingly showed her support for Hailey when she liked a post by Sephora announcing a collaboration with Rhode. Rhode products will begin being sold at Sephora this fall, joining Selena's Rare Beauty items on the retailer's shelves. In April Hailey was called a 'creepy stalker' for using similar language in her 2025 Daily Front Row acceptance speech to what Gomez used in a 2021 interview with Special Madame Figaro Arabia. As Hailey picked up the Beauty Innovator of the Year Award, she said, 'When I started Rhode, I didn't want to start a brand for the sake of starting a brand. I really wanted to create an entire world.'
CTV News
10-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Asian Heritage Month: Local businesses thriving across Montreal
It's Asian Heritage Month. To celebrate Montrealers with origins from the Far East diaspora, every Saturday in May, CTV News is highlighting individuals who have not only built their lives here but also created thriving local businesses. Expand Autoplay 1 of 7 Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry Photos of Brow & Lashberry. (Brow & Lashberry) Brow & Lashberry If there's one thing trending right now, it's Asian beauty, and Julie Nhan knows all about the ins and outs of the industry. She opened Brow & Lashberry, an aesthetic care clinic, in 2018, and says it's the first in Montreal to offer authentic, personalized Korean facials. 'I have always been deeply passionate about art and beauty since my childhood, although I initially pursued a career in health care as a dental hygienist,' she said. 'After seven years in the dental field, I realized that I wasn't fulfilled and decided to follow my true passion for beauty.' The 32-year-old says the inspiration for her business came after helping her sister and friends with their make-up for an event. 'Their reactions, especially from two of her friends who had little to no eyebrows, made me realize the impact that beauty treatments can have on someone's self-esteem,' she said. For three years, Nhan says she balanced her full-time job with building her dream. 'In 2022, I made the tough decision to leave my dental career and focus 100 per cent on my business,' she said. 'It was scary, but it was the right move, even though I didn't know it at the time.' Through all the trials and tribulations, Nhan says that sense of self-empowerment and confidence has come full circle back to her. 'I've learned to navigate challenges with resilience, and I continue to push forward,' she said. 'I feel a strong sense of community and pride in serving people who understand and embrace the unique beauty that different cultures bring to the world.' Chien Gourmand Brianna Vu says she still remembers the moment she came up with the idea for her company, Chien Gourmand, which provides home-cooked meals for dogs. 'I was sitting in my tax class, and I was really bored,' she laughs. 'My dog was still a puppy, and I was thinking, 'I always eat well at can't he eat the same thing?' She took her muses to a neighbour, who had a dog living long beyond its expected lifespan. 'His secret was real food,' she said. 'Hamburgers, spaghetti or soup.' Expand Autoplay 1 of 11 Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) Chien Gourmand Photos of Chien Gourmand. (Chien Gourmand) She decided to give it a try, and when she took her recipes to Instagram, says she was overwhelmed by the reaction. And so, Chien Gourmand was born. 'When you look different, it's definitely a bonus because there are not a lot of Asians in the dog market, in the dog industry,' Vu said. 'People recognize call me by my name, so that's fun.' Vu says she hopes her simple story can serve as inspiration to anyone wanting to take the leap into the business world. 'As a first-born of immigrant people, it was really hard for my parents to come here and rebuild everything,' she said. 'You can be can break the cultural standards.' Polar Bear Yusam Wong remembers spending most of his childhood trailing after his father, an appliance repairman, taking turns with his brother to hold up a flashlight whenever his dad needed to see behind a corner or into a dark space. At that time, he says, there was no way he wanted to follow in his ol' man's footsteps. 'We hated it, in the beginning, super hated it. We wanted to go outside play with our friend,' he said. 'But, you know, as Asian parents, they needed our help and we didn't have much choice.' All of a sudden, Wong says the unthinkable happened. 'We started actually liking it, and we actually became good at it,' he said. In 2002, the Wong brothers founded Polar Bear, an air-conditioning installation and maintenance company that services a wide area of Greater Montreal. Being Asian in a predominantly Caucasian-Québécois industry was an interesting experience, Wong recalls. 'You would not see immigrants go into any trade, and we were pretty much the early-bird immigrants going in there,' he said. 'I was born here, so I had no problem integrating there, but I could feel that there was, even when going to school in these trade schools, you could feel that there's a big segregation where you're looked down upon because you're 'yellow' and you don't belong in this field.' Wong says that same premature judgment transferred to the field. 'Lots of hurdles to go through, worked 10 times harder than they did in order to get the same results for people to accept us,' he said. In the end, the hard work paid off, and now with an established business, Wong says his hope is to continue overcoming preconceived prejudices, one air conditioner at a time.
