Hey, I totally agree about Jesy, she goes way to far with her tanning, but what else would be considered her blackfishing? I remember the Salute tour visuals and the plt clothes (which was all of them), but has she done anything else?
i mean blackfishing goes beyond just tanning in general. but let’s take a look at jesy's :
for reference she is a fully white woman, and this is what she naturally look like vs what she looks like now
we’re definitely not talking about just a bit of tanning. note the very dark fake tan, bigger lips, and dark wet wig with edges that are not her culture
also notice how she has no problem being next to her black bandmate looking darker than her
now the thing is blackfishing is not just about tanning it can also be about making yourself look racially ambiguous (see ariana grande) and jesy has been so successful at it that most people think she’s mixed. here’s a few examples
you can totally see why people who don’t know her would think she isn’t white. still the dark tan, overlined lips, the wigs, the makeup, even her clothing....... now look at next picture
this is the most telling to me, not knowing her you’d never think she’s a white woman. you can still see what her real lips look like and they’re clearly four times bigger here. everything about the way she presents herself is made to look a different ethnicity it’s undeniable. also if you love black culture so much you might wanna start speaking up about racism and not let your traumatized black bandmate who’s still fighting to find her place do all the work but
now if anyone doubts that’s she’s just not aware of what she’s doing which, please she’s a grown ass white woman with all the access to education, you might remember this pic and the blacklash it caused.
here we have jessica wearing what she thinks are dreads. now if you weren’t here it was the only time i saw little mix fans calling out one of their multiple cultural appropriation. her comments were flooded with people asking her to delete the pic and apologize, even medias talked about it im sure you can still find articles. so seeing all of this what she did is......nothing. she never even acknowledged it and this pic is still on her instagram.
one thing i find very obvious too is the way unlike black people she can remove those features when she wants to, like the rare time she did here.
her skin is much lighter, her lips much thinner, her hair looks closer to her natural one. the interesting part is that this was on the day she promoted her documentary and needed to appeal to a different more family oriented audience.
do with that what you will, little mix have done cultural appropriation as a whole and perrie has done lots of it couple years ago but time’s not an excuse. i just kept it on jesy cause this is what the ask is about and she’s the one doing blackfishing to this day.
[disclaimer: while being mixed myself i am not black so if you are feel free to add more/correct me]
