Indian Woman Makes 'Beauty Tutorials' Highlighting Country's Acid Attack Problem
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Last year Reshma Bano Qureshi, 18, was attacked by her brother-in-law and a group of men who held her down and poured sulfuric acid on her face. The attacked left Qureshi deeply scarred—her left eye is also missing—and some of her attackers were never prosecuted.
Now Qureshi is speaking out about her ordeal in a video that plays on the familiar tropes of the online beauty tutorial. In the video, produced by Make Love Not Scars, Qureshi promises to show viewers “how to get perfect red lips,” it quickly turns, however, to reveal that it’s as easy to purchase acid in India as it is to buy a tube of lipstick.