Whitlock is an excellent example of a person who has consistently failed upwards and stumbled into celebrity and some measure of wealth. And to that end I wonder if his Uncle Ruckus schtick is a calculated attempt at shoring up his own professional shortcomings (mediocre writer, uninteresting TV pundit, failed editor…

It’s been something sports columnists types have done for a long time I think.

Quickest way to “assimilate” in this god forsaken country? Anti-Blackness.

There are some shows that, due to the rare exposure they receive in the mainstream, result in viewers assuming that their television portrayals will provide a glimpse inside the culture that the show portrays. A perfect example of this is Sons of Anarchy. Far be it from a member of Hell’s Angels to pen a letter to…

Honestly, in decades — and of course this is just anecdotal — I have never met a black hair stylist who can’t do white hair. For one thing, a lot of caucasians’ hair mimics the texture of chemically-treated black hair, which black stylists work on all day long. And black hair texture varies wildly, so they’re used to…

Newsflash; most makeup artists work in a multitude of mediums; runway/fashion, print/photography, film and television, red carpet, bridal, etc. Forget about retail counters (where lots of artists work to help pay the bills), where every skin type and tone and age and gender and its grandmother approaches you. Not…

Oh, give me a break. It has been a given for at least twenty years that most runway shows will have at least one black model. There’s ridiculous tokenism at play, absolutely, but at this point there’s nothing revolutionary, surprising or pioneering about there being dark skin in need of makeup at a fashion show.

Hahahahahaha. Hey guys, this is her “’Black people age good. Ur welcome 4 the compliment I’M NOT RACIST!” post.

It was one thing to expect a pioneer like Iman to go the extra mile as she broke through into areas of the industry where few, if any, black models had worked before. It’s quite another thing to say that, DECADES LATER, models should still be demurely and quietly making up for the other people’s inability to adjust.…

It is no surprise that skin has many colors. A person who shows up unable to accommodate human skin is neither an “artist”, nor a “professional”.

That white privilege is a hell of a drug isn’t it? It fucks the mind up so much that it expects POC to teach the professional how to do their job for them.

Again, multiple factors. That is only one. There are many artists who do not bother to carry shades in their kit to match global skin tones, don’t know how to properly match and mix, and get jittery when a dark model sits in their chair. And that gets tolerated FAR too much. If I told an art director I couldn’t do a…

Class? Defined by your standards of course. If you actually read her post you’ll see she has tried to address this directly and been forced to be ‘apologetic’ about her skin. Of course you want to force respectability politics on to her. She should be grateful for her unique position right? A spokesperson? No one is…

If a make-up person doesn’t know how to do black people’s makeup then perhaps they have no business calling themselves a professional.

You have zero, and I do mean zero idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

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I really know nothing about the life and times of a model, but I was fucking flabbergasted that she, a professional, a FORD MODEL, is expected to bring her own makeup. WHAT KIND OF MAKEUP ARTIST ONLY CARRIES ONE SKIN TONE?!?! Fucking fix your kits, MUAs.

WHAT? Are you mad? Are you seriously suggesting that the difference between black and white skin is comparable with the difference between black and white hair?

Except black make-up artists ARE expected to deal with white people’s skin or black make-up artists don’t work. And Paul is educating people - in her post, she includes a comprehensive list of brands that cater to her skin colour and recommends that make-up artists start using them.

I’m... genuinely not following your logic. Why is it the model’s job to educate the makeup artist? Why can’t the MUA be responsible enough to make sure they’re prepared for whatever client they get? My roommate, who’s black, is a professional MUA who can work just as phenomenally well on white skin as she can black,…