It’s almost Christmas! So, as is the way in which within the capitalist society we live in, brands are rushing to push out every unnecessary trinket so that you can snatch up – more likely to be thrown aside and forgotten before we see the yr out. 

Amongst this stuff are a pair of Frida Kahlo-themed tweezers by Sass & Belle. Should you’re unfamiliar with the brand, it sells cutesy homeware pieces at reasonably priced prices. Just in time for the vacation season, the brand has released an entire range of Kahlo-themed products from plates and baubles to shopping bags and keyrings – more on why that’s problematic here. 

But, back to the matter at hand, a tool used to remove body hair, that appears similar to an iconic artist who celebrated her it. Irony doesn’t even begin to cover it. “I used to think I used to be the strangest person on the earth,” Kahlo once wrote in her diary. “But then I believed there are such a lot of people on the earth, there should be someone similar to me who feels bizarre and flawed in the identical ways I do. I might imagine her, and picture that she should be on the market pondering of me too. Well, I hope that for those who are on the market and browse this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”

This isn’t the primary time Kahlo’s appearance has been edited for mass consumption. In 2018, Mattel released a Barbie doll (again problematic for every little thing she stood for) with a barely-there monobrow, light-coloured eyes, and no upper lip hair. Mexican courts later  ruled for it to stop being sold there, as her family claimed that they had not been asked for permission. 

Sass & Belle has not responded to our request for comment on the time of publishing.