[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

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

This is something that a lot of people at Agnes would love, but I don't know how you feel about international participation, as that can often bring up a whole other host of issues.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

The Ortho-Evra birth control patch -- I don't know if the brand name is the same in the UK -- is supposed to be "flesh-colored." I would send you a picture of one attached to me, but as I'm Pasty McWhitenstein, the patch is actually a shade or two darker than I am. But maybe one of the birth-control comms, or vaginapagina, might turn up some patch users who are women of color?

[that_mireille]

This is an example of why I think you are utterly awesome, you know. (I'm going to drop a link to a few women I know IRL who may find it of interest.)

Best of luck with this project.

[forthwritten.livejournal.com]

Psst, html version here (http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/reposting-info/). I couldn't get the text area to work, rather annoyingly. Grr. But also yay :D

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're doing this. It's an important project. Go you!

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

You are awesome.

[thedilettante.livejournal.com]

I'm passing this along to people. It's a great idea.

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

I yelped in anger when I saw that "normal to dark" label on a product just like that one shown in Tescos. I wrote them an email, and they never replied. Pffft.

Shall post the links and whatnot from here (http://skincoloured.wordpress.com/reposting-info/) in my journal. :)

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Excellent project! I'll link.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Linked! (Clearly this is the time to break out this icon)

also, I have a package with a familiar postmark :) should it be kept for a few days? and is it suitable to open in front of parents? :P

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

This is a really good idea.

I don't have any photos to illustrate it, but thought it might be worth flagging up the naming of "flesh-coloured" tights by dancewear company Capezio: nude, light suntan, suntan (http://www.planetdance.com/prod6.asp?prod_id=1901&id=140&sub_cat=466&grpid=1901&msg=&offset=12).

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to look it up myself, but is there a feed so it can be viewed on the lj friendspage?

[lizzip.livejournal.com]

You are, as they say, awesome.

I want to say thank you but don't know how to without sounding awful, so, um, yes, thank you. Now I shut up and listen.

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

What an excellent project. I'll put up a link--I'm sure there will be people on my flist interested in this.

[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.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Yay, this is an awesome project.

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

The post's gone up at curvygirls. :) I can't link it because it's friends-only, but it's there.