I don't think 'lost' or even necessarily 'scammed' are the right words to use. Lost implies that she lost her purse along with the cash inside it. Whereas scammed implies more of an investment in a fraud business venture (e.g. Bernie Madoff, Wolf of Wall Street), where the money was given with the belief/hopes that…

"No matter what they say; no matter what kind of tale they tell you, you really have to be brave and say no," she said.

Without getting involved in the racial politics of all this (don't have the energy for it tonight) — As a biracial woman (though, not black), I had never considered that the dark spots left by acne/etc. could actually be fixed. Any chance you could recommend some products to use?

Argh! I have a friend who did this - gave most of her money away to a dude she had a crush on, because he always had some great plan or some sob story. She is a single mom, and he was a perfectly healthy man capable of pulling his own weight. I seriously don't understand. If you are a single mom, or a cancer survivor,…

I just roll my eyes when they bring mail-order brides over here and then the girls get their citizenship and peace out, and the guys are like "that shallow bitch didn't looooove me." Well no kidding, you paid for her. You didn't set the relationship up to be about love, you set it up to be about a power dynamic where…

No fool like an old fool.

I don't feel bad for them, they have it coming. It's not like they can't meet a woman where they live. They just one to have some young dependent and submissive wife that they can treat like shit because they paid for her.

Can't. Muster. Sympathy. Anymore.

Whew! I'm not alone in thinking that using a second-person point of view is completely avoidant and dodgy. It drives me almost as crazy as "mistakes were made" passive voice statements.

As an aside, I'm really developing a pet peeve with people who phrase their own experience into a universal experience: "You want to believe, because you think you're developing a relationship." That kind of phrasing always feels to me like an abdication of responsibility, on a subconscious level.

Somewhere a Nigerian Prince (probably in Nigeria) is saddened because he lost out on one.

Well congratulations to you, a white woman, for believing that black women should be allowed to exercise freedom to bleach their skin as much as possible to fit the white supremacist beauty standards that are beaten into their brains as the only way to be beautiful. Your mind is fixated on it from YOUR perspective…

I think you white people are getting a bit too, how should I say it, "preachy" about this whole "dark-skinned Black girls gets contract with cosmetic company." As someone has already pointed out, Lancome has had Black models in their ads for years; Lupita is not the first. And the fact that Lancome, like just about…

I'm sorry but how is her point valid? "She'd owned by white men"? I notice that people seem to put these higher expectations on black celebrities than they do others. There are a number of brands that in other global markets make these types of products and Lancome sells thousands of products. Lupita's speech to me…

Can we let this rumor die...it's like, 20 years old. I thought it was pretty much summed up in his autopsy report that he had VITILIGO. All of his skin treatments were used in order to even out his skin tone due to the extreme changes caused by the disorder. So, Michael is not a good example for whatever point it is…

FWIW Lancôme has had black "faces" before, including current faces Arlenis Sosa Peña (pictured) and Jasmine Tookes. Perhaps Nyong'o is the first black celebrity Lancôme face, but we can recognize the models of color who've been repping for years, too.

Please don't give this self-hating fool anymore attention than she already has.

but there's already the scent of backlash in the air

Why are we even giving this fool a platform?

Beckies for sure. My friend and I call douchey dudes "Kyles" and "Todds" and douchey girls "Beckies" and "Morgans".