[skincoloured]

[raven]

Skin Coloured is intended to be a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture. Make-up, plasters and tights - even when they're marked "flesh-coloured" - are not the colour of skin that isn't white. And whilst white women may have trouble matching these items to their skin, for women who don't class themselves as white, this inconvenience is symptomatic of a wider problem.

To help illustrate this problem, therefore, Skin Coloured is looking for submissions. Send us photographs that illustrate the inadequacy of provisions for non-white people, and we'll post them on the blog, and hopefully both those submitting, and those who're here to learn, will gain something from it.

Further information can be found here, and reposting information is here.

(I'd appreciate it if this were passed along to anyone who might find it interesting; the great difficulty here is finding other women (and, people of any gender) who deal with this issue. Many thanks.)

Comments

[thekit.livejournal.com]

here via http://deathbyshinies.livejournal.com/329288.html

hi!

I'm non-white (se-asian chinese), but can white people participate by showing how the products actually do match?

I've always found it difficult to visualise what a person who was band-aid coloured all over would look like.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hello sweetheart! My colleague and I would rather this were kept to people who identify as not white - because the problem, when we try running this debate, is that people (usually white people) start overruning us with tales of how make-up/tights/etc don't match their skin either - whilst not realising the point, i.e., that they are in a privileged position, and that for them this is a minor inconvenience rather than symptomatic of our invisibility in the mainstream.