Comments for skin coloured http://skincoloured.wordpress.com being non-white in a white society Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:05:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About by Eve http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/about/#comment-158 Eve Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:05:48 +0000 #comment-158 I've just checked <a href="http://www.bravissimo.com" rel="nofollow">Bravissimo</a> again and found that one of their black models is no longer on the site. The remaining black model is almost always shown in white lingerie, with the exception of one bra in dark brown. They have some bras in colours which look like they'd be good on darker skin, such as <a href="http://www.bravissimo.com/products/lingerie/everyday-essentials/freya/balconette-bras/fye7-details.aspx?colour=Caramel" rel="nofollow">this one</a>, and I'm really disappointed that they are no longer making any effort to show them on darker-skinned models. Does anyone feel like writing to them about this? I've also just uncovered another area worth investigating: prosthetic limbs. They do offer some choice, it appears, but not much. I’ve just checked Bravissimo again and found that one of their black models is no longer on the site. The remaining black model is almost always shown in white lingerie, with the exception of one bra in dark brown. They have some bras in colours which look like they’d be good on darker skin, such as this one, and I’m really disappointed that they are no longer making any effort to show them on darker-skinned models. Does anyone feel like writing to them about this?

I’ve also just uncovered another area worth investigating: prosthetic limbs. They do offer some choice, it appears, but not much.

]]> Comment on About by C-J http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/about/#comment-87 C-J Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:37:11 +0000 #comment-87 Brilliant idea for a blog - and absolutely brilliant for making the case I wish to make in a Sociology course I am teaching. I get exceptionally fed up with white students who just think race is no longer an issue and no longer the devisive social cleaver that it is. I have been collecting a range of so called flesh-coloured products to show my class to try and drive home the fact that they live in white world and see everything with very white eyes. Also what amuses me is that the advertisers now call the pink flesh-colour natural - natural for whom? Keep up the good work :-) Brilliant idea for a blog – and absolutely brilliant for making the case I wish to make in a Sociology course I am teaching. I get exceptionally fed up with white students who just think race is no longer an issue and no longer the devisive social cleaver that it is. I have been collecting a range of so called flesh-coloured products to show my class to try and drive home the fact that they live in white world and see everything with very white eyes. Also what amuses me is that the advertisers now call the pink flesh-colour natural – natural for whom? Keep up the good work :-)

]]> Comment on #5 by A.D. http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/5/#comment-81 A.D. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:37:56 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-81 The "flesh coloured" plasters thing is particularly annoying in a theare context. They're used to stick on radio mics, but the effect on darker actors is to make the microphone <i>more</i> noticable, when they're supposed to be disguising it. Transparent plasters are no use for this, because they still have the white cotton pad on them and sellotape doesn't work either. It isn't strong enough to hold the wire. If you ever do find a company making "skin tone" plasters for skin which is black or asian, please advertise the hell out of it here. Stage managers up and down the country will thank you. The “flesh coloured” plasters thing is particularly annoying in a theare context. They’re used to stick on radio mics, but the effect on darker actors is to make the microphone more noticable, when they’re supposed to be disguising it. Transparent plasters are no use for this, because they still have the white cotton pad on them and sellotape doesn’t work either. It isn’t strong enough to hold the wire.

If you ever do find a company making “skin tone” plasters for skin which is black or asian, please advertise the hell out of it here. Stage managers up and down the country will thank you.

]]> Comment on #2 by On skin colour, ethnicity, and society at large | Toban Black http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/2/#comment-75 On skin colour, ethnicity, and society at large | Toban Black Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:39:58 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-75 [...] at the skin coloured blog - “normal to darker skin” [via Sociological Images] (A photo of a bottle of “body [...] [...] at the skin coloured blog – “normal to darker skin” [via Sociological Images] (A photo of a bottle of “body [...]

]]> Comment on #3 by Kat http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/3/#comment-74 Kat Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:28:45 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-74 Lokifan: Thanks for your kind words. This was in Liverpool. Lokifan:

Thanks for your kind words. This was in Liverpool.

]]> Comment on #3 by Lokifan http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/3/#comment-73 Lokifan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:06:57 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-73 Ouch. Q: which city? I'm just curious. Leicester, maybe? Bradford? I just found this site and it's <i>awesome</i>. Ouch.

Q: which city? I’m just curious. Leicester, maybe? Bradford?

I just found this site and it’s awesome.

]]> Comment on About by Fresh Peaches http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/about/#comment-72 Fresh Peaches Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:32:12 +0000 #comment-72 This message is to let you know that this site has been featured on the Such Cool Stuff! blog: http://suchcoolstuff.blogspot.com/ Have a great day! This message is to let you know that this site has been featured on the Such Cool Stuff! blog:

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]]> Comment on #2 by Laura http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/2/#comment-71 Laura Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:36:37 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-71 ...followed a link here, today. Normal? <em>NORMAL?</em> I. just. wtf. …followed a link here, today.

Normal? NORMAL?

I. just. wtf.

]]> Comment on About by simargl http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/about/#comment-60 simargl Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:08:04 +0000 #comment-60 This is the opposite of what you are looking for but you might find it interesting. http://www.ebon-aide.com/ This is the opposite of what you are looking for but you might find it interesting.

http://www.ebon-aide.com/

]]> Comment on #4 by Peach http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/4/#comment-59 Peach Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:45:27 +0000 http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-59 I was going to take a band-aid photo but I noticed that my package doesn't say anything about it being skin-colored anymore, and indeed it's a sort of non-committal beige now.... I was going to take a band-aid photo but I noticed that my package doesn’t say anything about it being skin-colored anymore, and indeed it’s a sort of non-committal beige now….

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