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Maulleigh
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
Perhaps, but maybe it's just the bright lights of the photoshoot. No I'm not being a smart ass, just it's not a big conspiracy says this photo retoucher.
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HallieMarie
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
I have a 14-year-old cousin who lives in the Philippines (she is half-Filipino, half-white). On her last visit, I noticed she was using that skin-lightening cream.

I didn't even know what it was at the time, and after she explained it to me, I was just baffled. I didn't really know what to say. I weakly offered, "you know, over here, people try to tan to get dark skin like yours." And she just said "that's funny," and then something like "this is what WE think is pretty." She seemed to equate it with a brand of lipstick or a style of clothing.
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veronykah
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
It is absolutely the super hot strobe they are using to light her. If you look at the left side of her face, the top of her arm and shoulder you can see that they are browner than the parts that are getting the direct hit of the strobes.

Trying to find a good example to show what I mean to all of you non-photographers.

It is, however, obvious that they WANTED this washed out look. Any photographer shooting for vanity fair knows how to shoot for accurate skin tones.
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Andalucía
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
I wish they tried that shit with M.I.A.
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Hana Maru
02/12/09

@Andalucía: Awesome.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
02/12/09

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"Did Vanity Fair whitewash Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto in the March issue?"

This is a rhetorical question, right, Dodai?
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picardia
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
That is the only bad picture I've ever seen of her. Whether whitewashed or simply overlit as all get out, it makes an utterly beautiful woman look freakish and not human.
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Flackette Goes Retro
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
It could just be the intense lighting. But yeah, she looks lighter there.
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roodles
02/12/09

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blerg. I'm so over this pin up look. This woman is gorgeous as it is why so much photoshopping and contrived poses?

I hope that she comes out of "Slumdog" with a better career than Parminder Nagra did after "bend it like beckham" but at least in "Slumdog" there's not a skinny white actress that can usurp the "it girl" title from her...I'm not optimistic though. Anybody remember Sarita Choudhury?
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
I'm disgusted with the Photoshopping. She does look suspiciously lighter, yes. That may just be from the lighting they used. But my main problem is that the photo looks like a bland, generic, watered-down version of her. Or someone else who looks vaguely like her. She is amazingly beautiful and should not have been digitally altered at all! Just like all of the other women in magazine photos! I would give a toe to look like her for a day. I'd spend the entire day looking at myself in the mirror and brushing my hair. I'm serious.
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kimsama
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
I am also concerned about the oceans of blood on that thar globe.

Is it possible the VF editors are colorblind? It has a nice kill-two-birds logic to it.
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Stabby McStabberson
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
This would be more of an issue if it were Vanity Fair - India Edition, where lighter skin is fetishized. This is the American edition (the only one?), and it's not likely representative of, or the result of, a problem endemic to American society. I've seen other darker skinned women in that feature.

Incidentally, she looks much more beautiful on the left with darker brown skin. Lovely. I think most would agree.
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
In the movie, the kids got progressively lighter as they aged as well. Coincidence?
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badmutha
02/12/09

In reply to Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.
Could it also be that they smeared that highlight/shimmer stuff on her?
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Lymed
02/12/09

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Her tummy looks like my tummy and my mom used to compare me to Snow White.
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EkaterinaBallerina
02/12/09

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I will never why dark-skinned women are perpetually "lightened" up. I'm Irish and therefore ridiculously pale to the point that I jokingly tell people I'm translucent. It's not very attractive and the reliance on sunscreen and coverings is downright annoying. I'd kill to have a dark, natural skin tone like hers.
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