Celeb News: Naomi Campbell Lightened Cover Raises Eyebrows + Gets Edit

Dancehall

The blue background is the final version.

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Vogue Thailand has altered an image of its November cover girl to make her appear, well, less black.

In fact, the magazine has made so many changes to Campbell's face, it's a wonder they bothered spending money to hire one of the world's most famous supermodels, only to alter the image until she is almost unrecognizable.

The Gloss has summed up the travesty in five bullet points, saying Vogue Thailand has:

1. Significantly lighten her skin tone
2. Change her deep brown eyes to light blue (contacts can’t do that)
3. Give her a nose job she didn’t ask for or need to have done
4. Her faced seems particularly heart-shaped
5. Wait seriously, they lightened her skin?

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The photographers response:

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The cover was edited and the final posted on the photographer's Facebook with this caption in Polish (roughly translated with Google Translate.)

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final version of the cover of time tomorrow will go to the newsstand
no bleached Naomi that she looked more Asian ... although this photo provoked a storm all over the world - ha ha
each image can be called dark brighter - brighter brighter ... I like bright and pastel -

Reader

I immediately thought she looked Asian before noticing that it's Vogue Thailand.

Musiclover1987

I'm surprised they even HAVE her on the cover. Asian countries aren't always the more tolerable...

J a y

That's what happens when you brighten a photo of a dark-skinned person.

It doesn't look like a 'white' edit to me (like other times). Naomi's still very much black, and everyone knows that.

Raiden

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Originally posted by Dancehall Queen

2. Change her deep brown eyes to light blue (contacts can’t do that

Say what?

That's the only part that caught me here. I don't really care too much about a Vogue cover (as I'm sure each and everyone of those covers is always photoshopped up and down and side to side and every other way).

But since when is it impossible to change eye contact color?

J a y

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Originally posted by Raiden

Say what?

That's the only part that caught me here. I don't really care too much about a Vogue cover (as I'm sure each and everyone of those covers is always photoshopped up and down and side to side and every other way).

But since when is it impossible to change eye contact color?

Color Replacement tool on Photoshop. You can choose another colour and replace the existing.

Mariah4life

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Originally posted by J a y

That's what happens when you brighten a photo of a dark-skinned person.

It doesn't look like a 'white' edit to me (like other times). Naomi's still very much black, and everyone knows that.

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Canonical Ensemble

Not Naomi.

She's usually strongly against this, isn't she?

Laxuqiv

Save-Me-Oprah

A mess.

Keon

I like the white text instead of the red.

IsidoraMarí

It's called lighting.

I'm all about fighting against racism, I just don't see it this time.

Energy

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Originally posted by Reader

I immediately thought she looked Asian before noticing that it's Vogue Thailand.

Naomi Campbell is 1/4 Asian naturally.

I think the photo just has a tent to it. So many dark skinned people have their skin tone change naturally depending on the light. I think that's just the look they were going for. It doesn't seem racsst to me. Maybe it was, but she still looks gorgeous. It's just lighting. Her tone changes all the time in shots.

Quietly Trek

Who even has an awful jawline like that? Her face didn't need the amount of Photoshop they used. I don't see why they had to change her eyes to blue when probably everyone in Thailand has dark brown eyes...

ohjulia

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Originally posted by J a y

That's what happens when you brighten a photo of a dark-skinned person.

It doesn't look like a 'white' edit to me (like other times). Naomi's still very much black, and everyone knows that.

This

Vignesh

Asian countries need to be more embracing of dark skinned beauties on cover of magazines/ads/commercials etc.

Dancehall

There really has to be a point where you can't excuse something as lighting. Why are the "dark areas" of the skin acting as a frame to those massive white areas?

Did she shoot this Vogue China cover in the dark?

liberalmusiclover

Looks like they applied an Instagram filter...

Knix

I know she had a fit when she seen this mess.