$500K Settlement Prompts PETA Push for Lilly Lashes to Ban Fur Eyelashes

For Immediate Release:
April 25, 2025

Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382

Following reports that locally-based Lilly Lashes has agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement to resolve a proposed class-action lawsuit that alleged the cosmetics company falsely advertised its mink fur eyelashes as “cruelty-free,” PETA sent a letter to Lilly Lashes founder and CEO Lilly Ghalichi urging her to ban the sale of eyelashes made from the fur of tormented animals.

The lawsuit, filed by makeup artist Haylee Woodard in the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2022, used information from PETA’s website explaining how minks are tormented and violently killed on fur factory farms.

“With a half a million dollar settlement looming, Lilly Lashes needs to read the room: Conscientious consumers don’t want to wear the fur of a suffering animal who was abused and treated like trash before being gassed” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on the company to stop clinging to cruelty, remove fur from its products, and use only vegan materials that today’s shoppers demand.”

PETA notes that minks purr when they’re happy and are attentive mothers who create cozy dens, often near water, to provide a safe environment for their young. On fur factory farms, minks and other animals are forced to spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy wire cages before they are gassed, decapitated, or beaten to death.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear or abuse in any other way”—points out thatEvery Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.