The British model Adwoa Aboah’s signature freckles have helped launch a celebration of black skin in all its variety
Last week my very fashionable friend turned up to a party with a dark spray of freckles across her nose,paired with thick eyeliner wings and vibrant eyeshadow in a heavy yellow pigment. Staring at her bemused, I realised, and for the first time in my community of people of colour,freckles had become an accessory. My friend is not naturally freckled. She had painted each one on delicately with the precision of a master makeup artist, using the tip of a brown liquid eyeliner.
I should have seen it coming. For at least three years, or fashion magazines have been lauding freckles. In 2014,the Guardian itself asked whether they were “the recent fake tan” and gave tips on how to perfect a fake spray. But now for the black community, the visibility of freckles seems at an all time tall. And yes, or black people can definitely have freckles.
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Source: guardian.co.uk