Your Nipples Are Just Fine How They Are
June takes on nipple tinting. Nipple tinting?!?
It’s not enough that women bleach their teeth, yank every hair from their body, undergo gruesome plastic surgery to restore their hymen, take lasers to their hooha to re-arrange their labia, flush their vaginas with chemicals so they’ll smell like a field of wildflowers, and shove foreign objects under the skin of their breasts to make them bigger; now we have to worry that our nipples aren’t an aesthetically pleasing color?
June writes in reaction to this piece in New York Magazine, which explains, “In just one more sign of the stripperization of the Everywoman, Benefit’s Benetint, conceived in the seventies for an exotic dancer to color lips and cheeks, is now also being sold at Sephora and elsewhere as a ‘kiss-proof and water-resistant’ nipple tint.’” A Benefit spokeswoman says, “Women want nipples to be pert and fresh-looking, and this shade makes them appear that way.” No, what I want is for anyone who thinks my nipples aren’t the right color to walk away as quickly as possible realizing they’re never getting anywhere close to them.
phew…and i live in the big apple but had to travel to nashville to learn this! guess this is why i never read New York magazine; the New Yorker can be stupid enough–but i do read it.
Naomi, I was just glad to see that they were critical of it.
Lessee: nipples start out pink(ish–true for women of all basic skin tones and melanin contents, I believe). They change color with childbearing, to brown(ish). So is this product supposed to make you look like you never had kids, or is it to change your nipple color from rosy pink to peach, or give you a warmer brown, or whatever? Because there are two different sets of messages being sent, depending on which purpose the product has.
The product description includes the phrase “rose-colored.” It seems to be to make them more pink, and the cosmetic company’s spokesperson refers to women’s supposed desire to have their nipples look more “pert and fresh-looking.”
Oh. More pert and fresh-looking, huh? It’s because being a mommy is unsexy, then. Ooky.
Not that guys SHOULD be consulted on this issue, but who is nipple lightening supposed to appeal to?? I’m a guy in my late 30s, and I have always preferred the more pronounced look of darker nipples on a woman. Who would buy these products, and when will some women realize that confidence is more appealing to men than physical perfection?
i have inverted nipples that barely have any color at all…you think you know, but you have no idea what this is like. “tinting” sounds fine to me.
well my nipples seam to very very very black why??