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Originally Posted by lara
I wasn't being mean. I merely stated that it's not enough there to say there aren't enough tutorials for ladies of colour (a perfectly valid question by itself) and that it would reflect better on Specktra if there was, because to my ears tacking the latter onto the former sounds like you feel that Specktra actively promotes tutorials and FOTD posts from everyone but ladies of colour. I assure you that it's not.
If you see that there aren't enough tutorials representing women of colour, then you must also see that the only way that's going to be corrected is if that women of colour themelves create tutorials. No one else can do it for you. If that's a mean statement to make, then so be it.
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Agreed completely.
To say that having tutorials for darker skin tones would reflect well on the site is fair, however, those tutorials are dependent completely upon the members
with the darker skintones to create.
Don't like that there are not enough darker skin tone tutorials? Make one, or ask someone who posts a lovely FOTD (Mac_Pixie04 does several gorgeous ones) to create a tutorial.
To imply that it's the responsibility of the site, which seems to be the undercurrent of this thread, to create and provide tutorials is incorrect. It's the whims of the members of the site to create the tutorials, and as such, fellow members are the ones to ask.
Each ethnicity has its own landmines when working with makeup. There are some girls who are simply too pale, too pink, too not pink, too yellow, too brown, too rosy, too bumpy, too smooth, too hairy, not hairy enough, too flushed, too full, too whatever, the list goes on. It's incumbent upon the people with those issues (such as me with being dark in summer and ghastly transparent in winter) to make tutorials that address those issues, in the hope of helping others who share the same fate.
Edit: I don't think anyone is being defensive, but more puzzled by the implication that it's Specktra's responsibility to provide the tutorials.
In short, if you want a tutorial that addresses issues for darker skin tones, someone with darker skin tone is going to have to create one.
Just my opinion of course.