The moment I saw the photos, I thought she looked different somehow. Closer inspection confirmed the reason — not only was her skin paler than ever, but her features seemed more refined. Whether down to clever contoured make-up or a skilful surgeon’s knife, the bridge of her nose seemed slimmer, giving her face a more pointed appearance.
And the overall result? Let’s not beat around the bush here: what with the tumbling blonde hair and all, the world’s highest-paid black music star of all time looked more, well, Caucasian.
Not only does it imprint upon every impressionable young woman of colour the message that she is not good enough as she is, it also suggests that, despite her meteroic success, Queen Bee thinks she must alter the very fabric of her being to make herself more palatable to the masses. The singer has long been accused of lightening her skin. In 2008, L’Oreal was accused of ‘whitewashing’ the star in an advert by digitally lightening her flesh tone.
It has even been alleged that in the early days of her girl group Destiny’s Child, her African-American father, Mathew Knowles, persuaded her to use skin treatments to remain the lightest-complexioned member of the band.
With her tumbling blonde hair, the world’s highest-paid black music star of all time looked more Caucasian when she appeared this week
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