Lupita Nyongo Isn't Impressed With a Magazine Photoshopping Her Hair

[demmiblue]

Source: The Mary Sue

Last night, Lupita Nyong’o tweeted out an image of her Grazia UK cover, unhappy that the final product decided to edit out her hair.

The Black Panther star wrote, “Disappointed that @GraziaUK edited out & smoothed my hair to fit a more Eurocentric notion of what beautiful hair looks like #dtmh” in reference to Solange Knowles’ song “Don’t Touch My Hair” from “A Seat at the Table”. The singer-songwriter dealt with a similar case of photoshop in her cover of the Evening Standard, where the magazine edited out her braided crown for “layout purposes”.

While Grazia might offer a similar justification, considering they might not have wanted Nyong’o’s hair to overlap with the black text, erasing the texture of Nyong’o’s hair sends out an extremely damaging message about what beautiful hair looks like whether intentional or not. This was not an inevitable, unavoidable situation. This was a huge editorial oversight, which demonstrates a need for a diverse team and more awareness about representation.

More: https://www.themarysue.com/lupita-nyongo-grazia-hair/

[hlthe2b]

1. They are nuts... She is one of the rare women who can carry off the "near" bald look so beautifully

Their photoshop of hair cost them the impact of the wonderful cover.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. They didnt add a ponytail

They cut one off, I think

[hlthe2b]

5. Oh... I should have read the article...

[Loki Liesmith]

6. Either way shes magnificently beautiful

Trying to “improve” on perfection always leads to trouble.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Its also clear

That cropping the ponytail ruined the photographer’s composition. Contrasting her ponytail against the fluffy white clouds in the background is very clever and the final image loses that tension.

[lillypaddle]

4. Loki is right

They eliminated her ponytail.

[malaise]

2. Bravo Lupita

The treatment of our hair is further proof of institutional racism. We aren't even supposed to wear our own fucking hair the way it grows.