Beyoncé’s mom is clapping back at the haters accusing her daughter of “skin-lightening” claims. (Courtesy: Amy Sussman/Getty Images and Beyonce.com)
Beyoncé’s mom is clapping back at the haters accusing her daughter of “skin-lightening” claims.
Tina Knowles posted onto her Instagram a video that she came across of Beyoncé. The video included text of people’s claims over a picture of her daughter at her Renaissance film premiere saying, “She’s not a black woman!” and “She’s white now???”. The video also included Bey’s song, “Brown Skin Girl,” playing in the background throughout the video.
“She does a film, called the renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?” Knowles said on Instagram.
“She wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown.. ALIEN Superstar duh!” Knowles added.
Knowles called out a reporter from TMZ who she claimed tried to contact Beyoncé’s hairstylist, Neal, for a statement.
“That made my blood boil, that this white woman felt so entitled to discuss her blackness.”
She also mentioned other iconic Black women who have worn platinum hair, including Etta James and asked if that meant they’re also trying to be white.
Solange’s son joined in the mix and commented on his grandma’s post, “Talk to em grandma, they need it.”
Looks like Queen B might’ve responded with a subtle post shading those “bozos.” She posted a carousel onto her Instagram rocking an all white fit posing up with her hubby Jay-Z.
Bey also included a close-up photo of her face.
“Her wearing all white was NOT a coincidence. Beyoncé is mad funny, bruh,” one user commented.
“That close up is for the haters, “Siri, play Brown Skin Girl,” another user commented.
Mama Tina reposted that exact photo of her daughter and captioned it, “WOW!”
So, was Bey right when she sang, ‘My mama was a savage’ and she got that s**t from Tina,” for shutting down the trolls once and for all?
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A winter red carpet. Had she been indoors a lot and stayed pale? She is mixed heritage, her lighter skin changes colour during the year more obviously than people with darker skin. Same with mine and everyone else I know. One person I knew became agoraphobic, never went out and her skin became paler than some people with white skin. Yet before she became mentally unwell, her skin was a healthy light brown.
Then there is harsh pap lighting. I saw a photo of her papped ‘looking white’ in a silver dress (not the one above), then another one that obviously wasn’t under harsh lighting and was shocked to see the silver dress was gold. It was definitely the same dress and make up. It makes me wonder why paparazzi use such harsh lights when cameras are so good that they can take images that give a more true to colour/real life image. If you are using equipment that changes a gold dress into a silver dress, it’s a sh*t image, right?
Then there’s make up. Lightening/highlighter make-up to go with the outfit maybe? Pictures of Beyoncé range from dark to light all the time, cosmetics may play a part in this, different colours impact on your skin tone. I’m not sure how skin lightening creams work permanence wise but either way but its weird if she uses it one minute to ‘be white’ and then the next time you see her she is dark again. Tbh I thought it was much more popular amongst East Asian celebrities when skin colour and youthful condition was especially important. There’s a gallery of 83 photos online from 1998-2003 of Beyoncé and they are all different skin tone wise. Lighting and time of year. What is more interesting to me is watching Beyoncé’s style go from less ‘put together ensemble’ to suddenly polished and well fitted when she obviously got a stylist & was gifted promo designer dresses for red carpet events.
Ok, last of all, hair. Lots of Black women do all sorts of colour hair in the UK. Funky colours like green, scarlet red, pink, blue, neons – I had purple glow in the dark & platinum blonde dreads for years. Curly and straight weaves and wigs. Women wear their hair loud and proud and that includes platinum blonde poker straight weaves & wigs. They rock that hair. Some people less so. Whatever. It’s their hair. Anyway, Beyoncé’s platinum blonde hair shouldn’t be an issue. She changes her hair like people change underwear and once this promo is over she will probably change it to whatever fits her next project.
Hair is a big deal though. I’m guessing she wouldn’t be where she’s at with her natural hair. It’s especially true for Black women, but also white women. We live in a racist and misogynistic society. That’s what needs addressing, not the women living at the sharp end of it.