By Emerald Pellot
I
am quite sick of this shiz. I hate when celebrities get famous and slowly but
surely lighten their skin. They do this in a lot of ways, with actual bleaching
products, wearing extremely light foundation or with Photoshop. Look, I am not
going to debate about the politics of brown women wearing a weave or sporting
your natural hair texture (that’s another conversation).
It is worrisome to me when
brown people begin to alter their appearance to look more Anglo. If you notice
when people get nose jobs it isn’t to widen or round their noses it’s always to
have traditionally Anglo noses. Is it because my nose is ugly? Folk that shift.
When
people of color become blonder, whiter and narrow out their facial features to
look more “beautiful” or more “glamorous” it sends the message that in order to
look beautiful and glamorous you have to abandon all those wonderful
features that expose your “ethnicness.”
How many famous black actresses or
singers are dark skinned in proportion to lighter skinned? How many have afros?
How many have wide noses? The pressure to look a certain way in Hollywood
exists for everyone regardless of race and especially for women.
See pictures of some celeb pictures cited.
