Padma Lakshmi calls out beauty brands for promoting colourism with skin-lightening creams

Padma Lakshmi is calling out beauty adverts for colourism, after growing ‘sick and tired’ of a preference being shown to fairer skin.

Amid Black Lives Matter protests taking place across the world and mainstream conversations speaking out against racism, Padma vented her frustration over beauty ads targeting people of colour and favouring a fairer complexion.