Beauty products and cosmetics shall now carry a new set of pictorial warnings after India’s Supreme Court mandated the same. The decision came after the huge success of compulsory warnings on tobacco products. The mandatory display shall have to cover 85% of the product’s packaging on both sides.
Following SC’s orders, the Health and Skincare Ministry advised all cosmetic manufacturers to start selling beauty products under a packaging that carries the label “Beauty is not skin deep.”
A recent ‘Global Beauty and Brains Survey’ released by the Ministry revealed that pictorial warnings on beauty products can result in convincing 92% adults to look beyond the surface and identify inner beauty, and further save 96% adults from the trap of love and marriage when they identify what goes on inside a woman’s head.
“I married a girl after seeing her Instagram profile. But the moment I saw her walking out after taking a shower the next morning, I was done. I felt so cheated. Further, she opened her mouth and popped my bubble. I had no option but to file for divorce. I totally support SC’s decision, it is saving lives.” said a man.
Previously, Nandita Das, the dusky complexion actress and activist, had filed a PIL in Supreme Court seeking to ban all cosmetics that talk around having a fair complexion. The unconventional looking actress cited how all offbeat art movies hire only the less attractive lot of actors to play the leads, despite them being overrated. Thus this underlines that beauty is not skin deep indeed.
