{"id":210584,"date":"2022-02-09T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/woman-criticised-for-comparing-fake-freckles-to-blackface-in-controversial-tweet"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:45:32","slug":"woman-criticised-for-comparing-fake-freckles-to-blackface-in-controversial-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/woman-criticised-for-comparing-fake-freckles-to-blackface-in-controversial-tweet","title":{"rendered":"Woman criticised for comparing fake freckles to &#8216;blackface&#8217; in controversial tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has a way of shaping beauty trends we see online and in real life. Though this can vary from bold colorful makeup looks to a more subtle aesthetic, one unforeseen trend has stood the test of time: fake freckles. Where people with freckles might have previously felt the need to hide or reduce the appearance of their facial feature, freckles are now mimicked by the use of eyebrow pencils amongst other products.When one woman shared a photo of herself on Twitter with her fake freckles on full display it quickly became the main focus of the conversation, with another woman having a particularly controversial take: falsified freckles have the same weight as blackface.&#8221;MF fake Freckles? You&#8217;re kidding right?&#8221; said Twitter user @HanlonSeana.When a person questioned if there was &#8220;something wrong&#8221; with fake freckles, Seana replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s literally the same thing as black face. You are appropriating my appearance that I had to suffer for in order to exploit the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has a way of shaping beauty trends we see online and in real life. Though this can vary from bold colorful makeup looks to a more subtle aesthetic, one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,165,19,153,6,163],"class_list":["post-210584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-beauty-fashion","tag-behind-viral-videos","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-lifestyle","tag-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}