I've noticed that lighter skinned people are far less threatening than darker skinned people.

It just looks like someone was mucking with the gamma settings to change her hair color to me...

Seems like someone is just looking for something to complain about. Even Beyonce's camp is all whateva.

i would think its just the insane amount of lighting used on a photo shoot... some white chicks look like ghosts in there shots. so is it not the same effect?

I dunno, dudes. It doesn't really look accidental to me. That said, she is on the light side naturally and they are making too big a deal out of it.

Who is it making the fuss? Cause no one really seems to care....

Why do I keep using italics? When will the madness end?

kellynoel: I dunno, dudes. It doesn't really look accidental to me. That said, she is on the light side naturally and they are making too big a deal out of it.

Who is it making the fuss? Cause no one really seems to care....

Why do I keep using italics? When will the madness end?

mwahahahahahahaha I can close tags, I promise.

Who is that chick? The one with the annoying voice? No, not that one, the other one? Yeah, her.

What was the question?

/closing kellynoel's tags

Who cares? Magazine photos are so highly edited I'm surprised she even looks human in that picture.

They're a lot less subtle about it in Asia. In China, Thailand, and Malaysia every single cosmetic product is advertised as "skin lightening". Speaking as a long-term victim of yellow fever I find that sad.

"L'Oreal: Hey, where the white women at?"

So what if they did? They want to appeal to a larger demographic than just black women, you know.

"Black"...?

Came here for the "That's Wacist" kid.

/still waiting

eh, it's been done

When I read things like this, is gives me hope. It seems to me that if people can find the time and energy to complain about something like this, we aren't in nearly as bad shape as I thought we were.

eddyatwork: I've noticed that lighter skinned people are far less threatening than darker skinned people.


me TOO!

/light skinned

//lovin' it

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I don't know who this is, but she's pretty hot for a white girl.

WHY DAT'S NOT RACIST AT ALL!

Jesus Christ.

No uproar when celebs model fake tan lotion.

Why?

Because it's farking stupid.

In Europe they advertise skin taning lotions, in Asia skin lightening lotions and nobody gives a fark...but in the U.S. first issue to come up is YOU ARE RACIST!!!!

L'Oreally?

miracledirt: L'Oreally?

Oooooooooooooooooh. Well played.

That hair is not hers either, this being an ad for hair colouring.
So if they can just send me the address of the wig maker, my hair will be as amazing as Beyonce.

So this make-up has the power to make people smarter?

I don't know if it IS just lighting, but even if you look at older pictures of Oprah, she used to be (or just appear) darker too. I've noticed that it seems to happen only with females. I've never noticed a lightening of any famous black guys.

ElegantGoose: I don't know if it IS just lighting, but even if you look at older pictures of Oprah, she used to be (or just appear) darker too. I've noticed that it seems to happen only with females. I've never noticed a lightening of any famous black guys.

Michael Jackson does not approve of your shenanigans.

I think I've been on Fark too long, when I saw the text L'Oreal all I could think of was a French version of the ORLY Owl.

It seems to me many American blacks are not really black at all.

Sure, many have African facial features, but also tan skin that would hardly get them called black in places like Africa or Brazil.

ElegantGoose: I don't know if it IS just lighting, but even if you look at older pictures of Oprah, she used to be (or just appear) darker too. I've noticed that it seems to happen only with females. I've never noticed a lightening of any famous black guys.

Irregular pigmentation in the older skin or atrophy in the adipose tissue due to ageing could be the causes. But in her case it's make up, lightning, and retouching.

Swampthing in Korea: It seems to me many American blacks are not really black at all.

Sure, many have African facial features, but also tan skin that would hardly get them called black in places like Africa or Brazil.

Define being black? What, then makes someone black? Society? Your heritage?

Egyptian TV seems to show only the lightest-skinned arabs.

/FWIW

I seen a very very dark Brazilian chick I swear her skin glowed she was so pretty
/I was to pussy to talk to her I just could not think of anything to say
//Player pass should have been revoked

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Swampthing in Korea: It seems to me many American blacks are not really black at all.

Sure, many have African facial features, but also tan skin that would hardly get them called black in places like Africa or Brazil.

Define being black? What, then makes someone black? Society? Your heritage?"

Black is an attitude. Eminem is black yo.

Okay, nevermind, sorry.

Because you're worth it willing to pay $100 for a small tube of lard

You people know blacks do tend to get a bit darker or redder when in the sun
/I turn a brownish crab red

La Fee Verte

That is actually the question I have.

I thought maybe they had come out with a new Michael Jackson skin bleach before I RTFA.

They messed with the brightness and settings in Photoshop on the entire picture.

Swampthing in Korea: La Fee Verte

That is actually the question I have.

Oh, okay, well, I don't have an answer on that either. I've noticed there seems to be more emphasis on someone's skin colour in the States. Don't know why, but have been curious about that.

_{/have you noticed the "quotation" button next to someone's name? Try to use it some times.}

spokesman:

Shakespeare's Monkey: Well, to be fair white women are so much prettier.


/SFW, but you don't wanna

I have that thong.

/not really

Of course they lightened her skin, magazines do this all the time to enhance the perception that "lighter" women are more beautiful. That's why you get Black and Asian women seeking cosmetics that lighten and in extreme cases, getting surgery to lighten the skin permanently or, in the case of Asians, having eye surgery to make them more round-eyed.

How many US "most beautiful" lists are topped by a member of Black, Asian, or other visible minority? White women are constantly epitomized and presented as the end-all be-all standard of beauty.

/They most certainly are NOT.