According to the fashion world and much of the beauty world, "Flesh" as a colour is a strange pinky-Aryan blend. But anyone inhabiting the real world knows that the spectrum is much wider than that.
This, from FW: " Using Pantone’s categorical system of coloring, Brazilian artist, Angelica Dass extracts and labels her subjects’ exact shades after taking an 11×11 pixel sample from their faces. Her aim is to catalog, through a scientific process, all possible human skin tones"
A project to applaud.
Important for colour matching.
Photographers and retouching houses could also take note.
it would be great if we could all get skin tones correct.
Acknowledging that a diversity of shades exists is a start.
The project is called Humanae
Via Angelica Dass
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Very cool.
Love this
You might not have Panones 111-4 C nr ha ha ha love it!
Love this too. I got very upset as a child, when I realised that ‘skin coloured’ plasters came in only one shade. I refused to wear them, made my Dad do a complicated thing with cotton wool and sellotape.
In fact, I need to follow up on that, hope it has been adressed.