Padma Lakshmi calls out beauty brands for promoting colourism with skin-lightening creams
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metro.co.ukBlack Lives Matter protests taking place across the world and mainstream conversations speaking out against racism, Padma vented her frustration over beauty ads targeting people of colour and favouring a fairer complexion.
Taking to Twitter, she called out Fair & Lovely – a skin-lightening cream that was introduced in India and is on the market across Asia and it’s main active ingredient is a melanin suppressor.
The brand has come under fire for promoting colourism, something Padma says ‘did a number on my self-esteem’ when she was growing up.
The star, who hosts US series Top Chef, tweeted: ‘For years I‘ve been saying that “Fair & Lovely” needs to pack their fake cosmetics and GO!!
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