Padma Lakshmi is calling out beauty bands for promoting colourism by selling skin lightening products. Amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the world, paving way for discussions and debates about discriminating on the basis of skin colour, Lakshmi expressed frustration over these brands favouring fair complexion over dark complexion.
She stated that she is “sick and tired” and tired of the skin lightening ads that target people of colour by suggesting that fair is lovely and dark is not.She took to Twitter and stated that growing up, the ads, that portrayed that dark complexion is not good enough, took a toll on her self-esteem.
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