From the Daily News: White-hot superstar Beyoncé Knowles is taking fresh heat for a new pale-skinned photo promoting her last album.
The new mom, who weathered similar accusations of photo snow jobs in 2008 and 2011, is shown lying on a leopard print couch in a slinky black monokini, with straight blond hair, bleached eyebrows and nearly alabaster skin.
The milky complexion could simply be the result of extremely bright lighting and not Photoshop flourishes, critics conceded. But either way, some believe any amount of whitewashing sends a damaging message — and the star should know better by now.
“It’s like, Again? Are we here again? I think in a lot of ways shes culpable because there’s history there,” said Lincoln Anthony Blades, founder of the popular race-conscious blog ThisIsYourConscience.com.
“She’s not saying explicitly you have to lighten your skin, but it does carry that inherent message,” he said.
It was summer 2008 when beauty behemoth L’Oreal denied accusations it digitally lightened Beyoncés honey-colored skin in an ad for hair dye. Last year, she faced criticism for the blond, unusually light-skinned photos accompanying her fourth solo album, simply titled “4.”
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