Tan France

2022 - 4 - 27

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Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach review – a completely ... (The Guardian)

The Queer Eye presenter's look into skin bleaching and colourism sees him sensitively interview Kelly Rowland, listen to abusive tweets – and reveal his own ...

Instead of detouring down that road, the show reverts back to its original topic: colourism and how it manifests in the fashion industry. It provides the tiniest hint of progress required to wrap things up, but it’s probably not the part of this show that will stick with you. France’s experiences do not lend themselves to such a trajectory: he remains severely traumatised by the racism he endured, and doesn’t live in the UK any more because of it. Whatever the precise mechanics behind contemporary colourism, it is clearly a topic worth covering: not only for the black and Asian viewers who have been harmed by such prejudice, but also for white audiences who may have little knowledge of its pressures. During a school visit, he comes over like a dream teacher – funny, excitable, down to earth – bonding with the children over the scourge of “aunties”, female elders who he suggests may be the modern-day gatekeepers of colourism. The shame and guilt that Queer Eye’s resident fashion expert feels about his youthful pursuit of lighter skin is the ostensible motive behind Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach (BBC Two), a celebrity-odyssey documentary that starts, as is now custom, with the obligatory suitcase-packing shot.

Tan France's colourism doc is the emotional (and important) show ... (Stylist Magazine)

Tan France: Beauty And The Bleach is the Queer Eye star's powerful reckoning with his past and colourism in his community – here's why you need to watch it ...

Getting beaten up at the age of five, though, was France’s most formative moment when he first realised that the colour and shade of his skin was something that could negatively impact his life. “For me, the desire to bleach as a kid was self-preservation. Conversations around marriage prospects and whether someone was going to get a good job were “ever present” in France’s life – but they all revolved around the shade of someone’s skin. France first bleached his skin at the age of nine, and at the heart of his fascination with the practice is a widely held belief that having a lighter skin tone directly correlates to your success, wealth and status. As well as racism, he also faced internalised racism coming from the ‘aunties’ and elder women on the peripheries of his family. Although the cream hurt when applied, he persisted in using it because he wanted his skin to be lighter.

Who is Tan France, how old is the Queer Eye fashion king and who ... (The Scottish Sun)

TAN France is well known by Queer Eye fans around the world.Since his rise to fame, he has become one of the biggest fashion icons in the world.How ol.

Our Surrogate is doing so great, post labour, and we couldn't be more grateful for the greatest gift in our lives." "Give our son a warm welcome," Tan wrote in his announcement post on Instagram. "We love him so, so much. We practice what works for us.” We don’t practice them all. France was raised a Muslim in the UK and Rob was raised a Mormon in Wyoming, and the pair have fused their beliefs. France met illustrator Rob in the US and quickly realised he was the one.

Tan France talks Queer Eye criticism and BBC's Beauty and the ... (digitalspy.com)

Titled Beauty and the Bleach, Tan's hour-long BBC Two documentary explores the dangers of skin bleaching in the UK and beyond. Through interviews with experts ...

We have the luxury on Queer Eye of having access to so many queer people here in the US. And we have more episodes and more seasons. So we can really dissect what it is to be a queer person, and many versions of it that are multifaceted. A lot of the criticism that we get from the queer community is that us five don't represent the millions of queers all across the world. We have a queer Black guy on the show. We have a queer Muslim on the show. We've run out of time, but we didn't want to end on that kind of note! All of us are exactly as we are on camera as we are off camera. So throughout the documentary, the 10 days I was in the UK, we were peeling back and peeling back. When I put out a shoutout about skin-bleaching, I got so much backlash from people in countries not in the West, who said, "You have no idea. There's a short clip of a spa, a treatment facility in the Philippines, that's run by a woman called Vicki Belo. We had a really long conversation via Zoom, but we had to whittle it down to not even 30 seconds. Do I think it's disgusting that it's available in our countries? It's the kind of thing I always tell myself when I'm about to shoot.

Tan France Beauty and the Bleach: Who is Tan married to? All you ... (HELLO!)

Tan France is a familiar face on TV thanks to his time on Netflix's Queer Eye. But now, the TV personality is fronting a brand new documentary for the BBC ...

Is it the decades of advertising pushing a white beauty ideal? Our Surrogate is doing so great, post labor, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the greatest gift in our lives." As previously mentioned, the documentary will see Tan explore the shocking world of skin bleaching. Tan's new programme, Beauty and the Bleach, sees him go on a journey to take down a shocking beauty trend, skin bleaching. "He came 7 weeks early, so he’s been in the NICU for the past 3 weeks. The couple live together at their home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Wednesday TV tips: Tan France on why he felt he had to resort to ... (Irish Examiner)

The fashion designer says he was aware of his skin colour from a very young age and thought this would solve a problem caused by racism.

When Tan France was just nine, he tried to lighten his skin with bleaching cream he found in a relative’s cupboard. They have to redesign a trendy bar Soho, London. Then they try to make a wrap dress that fits their model perfectly.

Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach, BBC2, review: An intensely ... (iNews)

The Queer Eye fashion expert found talking about his experience with skin bleaching incredibly emotional.

A particularly heartbreaking moment came when France revealed he had been attacked by a group of white men at just five years old. Looking back, France realised that what he did was a form of self-harm. At just nine years old, he stole his cousin’s skin-lightening cream and lathered it across his body.