Big disappointment: Lupita Nyong'o was scratched with frizzy hair on the cover
Perfect lips, perfect skin, perfect hair? perfect description for most of the cover art pictures featuring stars. Everyone knows that there is a lot of work and retouching.
But while the majority of models join in without much of a theme, Lupita Nyong'o, Oscar winner and star in "Star Wars: The Awakening of Power," has a huge problem with her latest cover art at Grazia UK: The Image editors have brutally shaved and smoothed their long, curly hair.
Why she bothers so much, she explains on Instagram as follows:
As I have said so often in the past, each and every one of my fiber represents my heritage and natural heritage. Although I grew up with light skin and smooth, soft hair the epitome of beauty, I now know that my dark skin and curly, curly hair are beautiful too. Being on the cover of a magazine makes me happy because it gives me the opportunity to other dark-skinned, curly-haired people? especially children? to show that they are beautiful as they are. I am disappointed that Grazia UK has offered to be on her cover and then retouched and smoothed my hair to match her idea of beauty. Had I been asked, would I have stated that I can neither support it nor tolerate it if they are retouching something that reflects my origin? so that they understand and acknowledge that we still have a long way to go to fight the unconscious biases of black women's skin color and hair.
As I have seen in my book, I have had my skin and hair, and I have had my skin and hair, and my hair was silky , coily hair are beautiful too. Kinky-haired people, they are beautiful just the way they are. I am disappointed that @graziauk invited me to be on their cover and then smoothed out my hair to fit their hair. The unconscious prejudice against black women's complexion, hair. I have been consulted, I would have said that I would not support or condone the omission of what is my native heritage style and texture. #dtmh
A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) on Nov 9, 2017 at 6:11 pm
Clearly one can say now that stars who work in the entertainment industry, have to expect something like that and should not expect to convey in cover pictures their political messages. But understandably, their disappointment is always! And if more celebrities like them used magazines to show people in their natural diversity and diversity, that would definitely be healthy for the social view of beauty and looks.
