Elle Magazine Deep in the Shizzle

It looks like Elle had quite the white Christmas.

The stunning Bollywood actor and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is featured on the cover of Elle Magazine looking far paler than she is in real life. Most fans are up in arms and an appalled Ms. Bachchan is considering a lawsuit against the magazine.

Consumers have long been inundated with ads that use prominent Bollywood actors to promote skin-lightening products.  In a country that produces gorgeous women of color, it is sad that Ms. Rai-Bachchan, who is relatively light-skinned, is one of the very few with some cross-over appeal.  To see magazines like Elle further enforce the color hierarchy of crossover appeal by making Aishwarya appear lighter-skinned is a slap in the face.

This is the second racial debacle surrounding Elle. The American version was criticized for its October 2010 issue, which featured actress Gabourey Sidibeon on one of its four celebrity covers with noticeably lighter skin than her natural complexion.
 
Should Elle Magazine make a commitment to move away from using white as a standard for beauty, and should we demand a public statement and apology? 


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The Sun Has Got His Halo On! Hip Hip Hip Hooray!

The majority of South Africans woke up yesterday morning to see a ring around the sun, known as a sun halo.

It was gorgeous and so unusual.  Well, I hadn't seen anything like it before.

According to South African Weather Service meteorologist, Mksufhuwa William Msimanga, this is a very common occurrence.

“It happens when we have a high-level cirrus cloud. It’s located between 5km to 10km in the upper atmosphere,” he said.

Msimanga explains that cirrus clouds are filled with ice crystals and as the sun heats crystals inside the cloud, they move apart which creates the ring which is actually a circular rainbow.

It was really hard taking the pictures as the sun was really bright.  I just pointed my cellphone in the general direction and hoped for the best.

This was the result.



This phenomenon does not last long. “It should last as long as we have the cloud, but this particular cloud is starting to move away, so it should start to dissipate within the hour. It all depends on the momentum of the cloud,” Msimanga concluded.
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