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>Japan

Personally I don't care at all, even with the paints, whatever would help look the part of the character they are cosplaying.

>>6989527 (OP)
Doin it right.
>>6989530
Doin it so wrong it became racist.

I just feel like you shouldn't go the face painting route either way. It usually looks terrible and comes off looking offensive.

1. Don't paint your face, that's fucking stupid.
2. Other than that, cosplay whatever makes you happy.
3. But understand that how impressed people are going to be depends on how much you actually look like the character.

It's all pretty fucking stupid considering around 50% of "white" anime characters are actually Japanese anyway. Japanese cosplayers play characters that are supposed to be white all the time. White cosplayers play characters that are supposed to be Asian all the time.

It's not any difference when you bring black cosplayers/characters into the mix, just don't go blackface and you're fine.

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Okay, so how does everyone feel about white people cosplaying as zombies?

As a zombie myself, I find the body paint to be quite insulting.

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Don't even get me started on demons.

Paint your face however the fuck you feel like.
If you want to cosplay a black person then paint yourself and fucking do it. Don't let what others project as 'racism' ruin your fun when you're not trying to be a racist. You just want to pay the proper homage to the character, and if people can't understand that then give them a cuntpunt so they can hopefully slink back to tumblr where they belong.

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DONT SLATHER YOURSELF WITH BROWN SKINPAINT
just don't.
it looks retarded most of the time and it just look you just rubbed shit all over your body.
pic related-don't do this shit.
a spray tan is most likely cheaper and will get the job done.

I strongly dislike the notion that OMG PAINTING YOUR FACE A CERTAIN COLOR IS RACIST but this looks offensive as fuck >>6989530.

I guess just painting/fake tanning/watever for skin color accuracy should be fine, but there IS a point where your shit turn into offensive blackface. Asian in quoted post is a prime example.

I dont really get it because like 90% of game/anime/comic characters are light skinned so why pick one of the few that aren't?
It also usually just looks bad, pic related >>6989584

I've cosplayed a handful of dark skinned characters and I'm white as fucking snow. If you get proper theatrical makeup and apply it to look natural, it's fine. I've never had someone come up to me throwing a fit about black face. Also, for many of us whiteys, we just look weird if you go REALLY dark. Like, with facial structure it just is a bad missmatch, so I'd suggest dialing back a bit on darkness if your character is really dark skinned.

>>6989600
this is also the logic most SJWs have about non-POCs cosplaying POCs.
"why not just cosplay all the white people there are. its not fair to cosplay the few POCs there are too. stop monopolizing all the characters white scum!"

dude why can't people just be who they want.
and not like a character or cosplay a character just because of their skin color?
It's fucking stupid.

>>6989583
>Don't let what others project as 'racism' ruin your fun when you're not trying to be a racist.

This is like coming into a thread about fatty Yokos and saying "Don't let what others project as "gross" ruin your fun when you're not trying to gross them out."

It doesn't matter what you're trying to do, it matters what you actually did.

>>6989584
The skinpaint is the least terribad thing about that photo.

>cosplay however the fuck you like
>dgaf about what a couple of butthurt SJWs say
>???
>profit

>>6989605
Sure they can but it makes more sense to cosplay someone that looks like you so you don't have to paint your skin, don't you think?
I don't think its racist but I do think it's probably not the best idea.
People can do whatever they want but that doesn't mean it's going to look good or right.

A black girl cosplaying Storm is just probably naturally just going to look better than a white girl with brown skin paint. So why do it? Just saying.

If you want to cosplay Storm and you're white, just fucking do it. Black/brown people cosplay white/asian characters all the time and don't paint their skin because it just looks stupid. Unless the character has a non-human skin color it's never going to look right.

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>>6989612
If I see your beaner ass in blackface at a con I will fuck your shit up hard.

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>>6989579
What about those people that can't even get the gender right? They make me sick.

>>6989627
i'm sure you will, princess

Black person here

I don't paint myself white to look like white characters, so why should you paint yourself black? It's ridiculous and unnecessary

>>6989607
>comparing body type to skin color
Those are completely different issues.
A skin color shouldn't gross you out as opposed to someone's 60 pound gut hanging out of their bikini.

>>6989636
You might not, but there's other black cosplayers I see that paint themselves white.

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>>6989635
Don't fucks with me, pendejo. I'll smack the black paint off you.

>>6989641
I have never seen a black cosplayer with pasty white makeup on.
That's the only reason why this stuff looks weird to me because the vast vast vast majority of black cosplayers don't paint themselves white to cosplay white characters, so why should white cosplayers paint themselves black to cosplay black characters?

Just fucking go for it but don't paint your skin.

>>6989600
I know, as a POC and also I cosplayer, I sort of feel the same way. There are only a handful of tan characters in anime and a VERY small amount of characters who are actually black. Idk it's a weird white privelege.
But I also know that by saying means that skin colour must be a crucial part of the cosplay, which I don't believe so. And it just wouldn't be fair for me to say 'I can cosplay Asuka because I am black' and to deny someone from doing Tiger because they're white.
Just do what you want, just no black face pls.

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You could always do what this guy did.

I want to cosplay Mr Popo. Will someone be my Jynx?

>>6989636
That's how I feel as well. Black cosplayers have to deal with being "black ____" just because of skin color but they do they character they like anyway without paint.

>>6989641
That's equally stupid. Looks very unnatural as well. I bet they are already lighter in complexion too.

>>6989650
I'm not saying it looks stupid 99% of the time, but I've just seen a few. Usually the bad kind. I remember one certain one that goes around bad cosplay threads every once in a while, but I don't have it on me.
I'm just saying that it happens.

>>6989632
Is the garterbelt blackfacking?

>>6989651
>POC
>white privelege
>anime characters
>intothetumblritgoes.jpg

>>6989650
This

>"Well black cosplayers never paint themselves white so white people shouldn't paint themselves black either!"

The majority of you saying this DO realize that the reason black cosplayers don't attempt to paint themselves white is because it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to do? Especially if you're a particularly darker tone of black?
You can't exactly paint yourself white just like that. It would take layers that are not conducive to con going.

>>6989584
this is why I think you shouldn't paint yourself darker more than a few shades. It looks fucking terrible, and 99.9% of the time your attempts at going more than a shade or two darker will look just like this.

She would have looked a lot better with her natural skintone.

>>6989692
Body paint is never conducive to con-going so why do it when there's no reason to? Cosplay whoever the fuck you want but why paint yourself black if you don't have to. No one is really going to think you're black anyway.

If the character has green or blue or whatever skin, there's no problem but beyond just simple tanning or something I don't even see the reasoning for it. Just be white Demoman, who cares?

>>6989676
I know the cosplayer. She used darker make-up.

>>6989680
It's 100% true though.
And I always hate to be lumped into some SJW group but I feel strongly about this issue.

>>6989703
>Body paint is never conducive to con-going
It can be if you know what the hell you're doing. Specifically latex or glue-based paint that won't rub off with sweat such as PAX. However, you can't put that stuff on your face, so people are still forced to buy separate body paint which is a difficult bitch to get the matching correctly.
And hence why it would be extremely difficult for a darker person to try to pull off painting themselves snow white.
>No one is really going to think you're black anyway.
It's perfectly possible to pass yourself off as a legit black person. People have done it in the past to investigate racial stigma and culture. One white guy even put chemicals on his skin to turn himself black. Read the book Black Like Me.

>>6989715
> Anime characters is a white privilege
> Anime characters is a white privilege
> JAPANESE cartoon characters
> Being WHITE privilege
I don't think you're understanding, anon.

So you all have beef with people using makeup techniques to make themselves look asian, correct? I bet white lolitas trying to be nipponese really rustle your jimbobs.

>>6989530
Why does enlarging the image make it smaller?

>>6989715
I meant that your assertion that the anime characters are white is wrong. They claim that they are meant to look Asian. I think it's debateable many times but they did copy the artstyle of earlier American cartoons and it still today. It's not a matter of "privilege". It's about perspective. Besides, why would you ever see many dark-skinned characters in a country that as homogenous as Japan? They are like 99.5% ethnically Japanese.

>>6989827
>>they are meant to look Asian

Yeah but who actually believes that, particularly when these "asian" characters are blonde and blue-eyed

>>6989863
There's blonde, blue-eyed anime characters that live in Japan and have Japanese names. It's just how the medium works. They also don't literally emit giant water droplets that hang on the back of their heads when embarassed, it's stylization.

>>6989827
>>6989863
somebody needs to read up on mukoseki

>>6989872

yeah, but the point is that it's "stylization" that explicitly calls to mind features that only exist in a particular, non-asian ethnic group

>>6989827
yeah, they're not necessarily meant to look asian I don't think
I mean, a lot of the younger generation puts emphasis on looking western (circle lenses, eyelid surgery, light brown to blonde hair, etc)
having a japanese name just puts them into a context of the area in the show.

>>6989881
There's middle easterners that have blonde hair and blue eyes, and there's other ethnic groups I'm not gonna dig for that it's probably common in, too.
Beyond that, lots of Japanese girls like to do things like dye their hair and change their appearance a shitload. I'm sure you can find plenty of them that look like anime characters when they're all done up in their makeup and everything.

>>6989881
Which is the ethnic group that created the animation style that early anime was based on (that is, early Disney films).

They watched movies like that, they got used to characters having weird hair colors and big round eyes as just being an animation style, and that's how we got where we are today.

>>6989881
White people don't look like anime characters. An anime character is just as likely to have purple hair as yellow hair. Because weird hair colors in anime is just a thing, not something that's meant to look like any real ethnicity at all.

>>6989742
As an Asian, I use makeup tips to make myself look white, and I don't see anyone giving me shit for it.
>Circle lenses, skin whitener, dyed light brown hair, etc.

>>6989881
Okay but what are you going to do about it? Japan doesn't care about it and neither does the majority of the anime and manga community in the West. It's not as if this is an issue of racism or bigotry. It's how a fictional character is drawn. Nothing else. I feel the same way about the law dealing with drawn lolicon Japan is trying to pass to "protect children". There are bigger battles to fight.

>>6989617
> Black/brown people cosplay white/asian characters all the time and don't paint their skin because it just looks stupid
its because they are POC they don't HAVE to.
but if a white person cosplays a POC with our without changing their skin color, its fucking racist according to crazies on the internet.
if they do color their skin, its blackface or something similar, if they dont, its white washing.

I don't really mind it either way, it's not something that ruins a cosplay for me at all, it just makes it better and more accurate to be the same race as the character you are playing. Personally, I know that if I were black I would pick black characters to cosplay. It's almost the same as cosplaying your body type, weight or height but less important. I also find that when a character is black it's also an important part of the role (which is a shame that some characters can't just be black without having 'black' be a personality trait).

>>6989654
is it fucked up that when I saw him I couldn't help but wonder if it would still be considered racist by tumblrfags?

>>6989910
>white people are criticized if they choose to cosplay the 1% of anime characters their ethnicity doesn't already resemble, OMG INJUSTICE

>>6989654
Ha, that's actually pretty adorable.

>>6989910
>but if a white person cosplays a POC with our without changing their skin color, its fucking racist according to crazies on the internet.
>if they do color their skin, its blackface or something similar, if they dont, its white washing.

I know a lot of psycho tumblrfag SJWs and I've never heard anyone accuse a cosplayer of "whitewashing". That's just when they cast a white actor to play a nonwhite character in an actual movie or something.

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>>6989893
pic related is classic American animation. Looks awfully similar to Japanese animation too.

>>6989905
That's sad, tbh. I hate when Asians and Blacks are whitewashed and hate what they look like.

>>6989926
its basically what >>6989919 said is what I was trying to emulate.
that janecrocker whatever on tumblr who caused that shitstorm a few weeks ago brought up something similar about how its racist for the terrible white man to steal the 1% of non-white characters from the POC
because the evil whities always have to steal everything.

>>6989933
>steal characters
Now that's just silly.

That black girl cosplaying Rachel Alucard at AX was absurdly adorable though. Black people cosplaying white characters well is a miracle of the universe. If it's done well I honestly could not care.


On a different note, I'd kill to see a black guy cosplay this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

Would not be the same were it a white guy.

>>6989916
I agree with you. It's nice sometimes, but really it doesn't matter.
Though I suppose it depends on the series. The only one series I really dislike cosplayers cosplaying outside their race 90% of the time is Hetalia.
A white girl trying to cosplay China just... Does not sit well with me. And I've yet to see an Asian girl pull off America or any other white country well yet.

Agh, can we just..Don't fucking try to paint yourself. Okay? Yes, if you cosplay a darker character you're going to be accused of whitewashing (probably not to your face so who gives a shit) but its MUCH worse when you try to make our darker skin a costume.

Just cosplay who you want, that's what everyone should be doing. But don't step on any toes by doing that shit. That goes for white ppl, asian ppl, whatever ppl, stop being buttfucking idiots, its common sense. (Or it should be to anyone with an IQ over like 4)

>>6989987
>When you try to make our darker skin a costume
You're from tumblr, aren't you? That's the only place I've seen that argument used.
I really don't understand the issue. It's the same as putting a wig on. It's just a part of someone's body. Unless you want to bitch 'oh but you oppressed us,' but then again there's whites being killed in Zimbabwe and South Africa as we speak, and I hear nobody crying about non-whites putting on stereotypical white stuff(blue contacts and blonde wigs) as a costume.

>>6989995
>I hear nobody crying about non-whites putting on stereotypical white stuff(blue contacts and blonde wigs) as a costume.
While I do agree with everything else, that is just dumb. Those are completely different things.

>>6989987
>make our darker skin a costume
Um, no.
Skin color is a part of cosplaying just like wigs, contacts etc...
If you seriously want to cosplay a character that has a different skin color then it's necessary to apply the appropriate make-up.
I think it looks ridiculous most of the time (very few cosplayers can pull it off) but it's nothing to get all buttruffled about.

>>6989997
You mean like complaining about a light-skinned person tanning their skin or putting on body paint to look like a darker-skinned character(who are 80% of the time racially ambiguous anyway)

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People are trying too hard to find offense in something that's a non-issue to begin with. People don't cosplay characters with different skin tones to be racist. GET OVER IT. There's nothing inherently racist about it and no it's not the same as blackface. Fuck. How many times do we need this debate? How many ways can we beat a dead horse?

>>6989997

The wig maybe. Eye color is just as immutable as skin color is, though.

>>6989995
Mm, no, I'm not. I just think its asinine to fucking PAINT yourself like you think that's gonna be legit. And yeah, blonde hair/blue eyes not the same as skin color.
2/10 I responded
>>6990000
No, its not. Skin color is skin color. If It were part of cosplaying, it'd be removable. Last I checked, normal skin color doesn't wash off.
That argument is cute though, sounds like the people back in the old days that did blackface. Don't be foolish.

>>6990002
No, I meant to say that white people using black people stuff is not the same as black people using white people stuff simply because white is regarded as beautiful and natural to aspire to, but black is not.

>>6990006
What the fuck is up with those pictures

But yeah, you are right. It's like saying that trying to look asian or imitating their make-up stuff is yellow face. I man, have you fucking seen yellow and black face in a movie? It's a completely different concept that is executed in a completely different way.

Just don't do blackface and everything is cool. Cosplay as whatever you want.

>>6990027

You just have to find the right type of shoe polish

>>6990006
Where the hell is this image originally from? I reverse searched it on Google, but I couldn't find a first source, only a sea of reposts.

Everyone: cosplay who you want.
Also do not be surprised when you look like shit doing it
Also do not be surprised when you get called on it.

Honestly it's like parents just raised "I do what I want, you can't stop me" children in the last 20 yrs.
Yeah do whatever you want, but there will be consequences.

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>>6990000
>If you seriously want to cosplay a character that has a different skin color then it's necessary to apply the appropriate make-up.
You tell Dat Ace he needs to lighten his skin.

>>6990059
"I do what you want, you can't stop me"
Ugh, this.
my 8 year old niece has an ipad and walks around like she's the shit because her parents can't into discipline
when i was her age i had rocks and leaves n shit to play chef with and my parents got the fucking switch when i acted out. I want to drop-kick her and all her spoiled ilk sometimes goddamn
sage for get off my lawn rant

>>6990071

Well Ace was sailing around the equator shirtless most of the time, I'd imagine he'd be pretty tan

>>6990099
I do. That fucking Korra needs a wig.

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>>6990099
I sure as hell do. No one wants to see tranny Misty.

>>6990099

Is that supposed to be white korra or asian-with-improbably-blue-eyes korra

>>6990099
Why the fuck is Misty missing a shirt? Why does Korra not have a wig?

Fucking SJWs.

Should people who aren't gray cosplay homestuck? That's so fucking racist!

>>6990111
I do. If he looks like dat.

>>6990138
This is just a fucking strawman that has nothing to do with the actual topic. Repeating it doesn't make it more related.

The reason its stupid is because black people don't paint their skin white so why should you paint your skin black?
Whitewashing is a term only used by the most retarded of tumblrites, so just ignore it. Basically, this >>6990059

Tanning and using darker makeup looks good most of the time but making your skin really dark is probably going to not just look bad but also probably get called racist by some people.

Do what you want, but understand the consequences. The skin-painting shit really is NO different from fat people who want to cosplay something hyper revealing.

Sure, have fun, but not everyone is going to like it and it's probably not going to look good.

>>6989654
I actually love that
It's literally perfect
Goddamn

>>6990099
>No wigs
>No shirt on a male cosplayer to make it a "slutty" costume instead
You're damn right I see a problem

>>6990159
I don't give 2 shits what anyone at a con does as long as it isn't illegal or sexist or racist in terms of how they really feel, people should stop being so sensitive about shit.
Personally I wouldn't do it but I don't care if white people, black people do Asians, Mexicans. I DONT CARE. Unless they are goin around screaming about fried chicken and grape drink or about not being able to drive and having small cocks, whatever racist crap people normaly come up with, who honestly cares and if you do maybe you should ask yourself why and not other people.

would it be bad if I cosplayed Daisy Fitzroy as a white girl
someone did asian Booker and I thought it was cool, but I worry maybe cosplaying Daisy when I'm white would ruin the point of the power dynamic struggles in Bioshock Infinite. I don't know. What do?

>>6989995

This.

Try saying that to a black woman that bleaches her hair. Or the types that like to just shave their hair and wear wigs all of the time instead on a daily basis.

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>>6990018
Are you serious
This is like people with straight hair bitching at people who naturally have curly hair, and decide to wear straight hair wigs. This is like people with blue eyes bitching about people wearing blue contacts. Neither are removable, neither are natural for that person, but BOTH may be required for a character. Not everything is a fucking political statement. Take your anal anguish and go back to tumblr

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>>6990193
Nah, just do it. I'm working on Echo, who's native american and I don't give a single fuck.

>>6990211
Honestly, you are completely idiotic as that has nothing to do with skin color. Hair is hair, wigs are wigs, contacts are contacts...Stop trying to compare apples to oranges, they're not even close and don't hold the same connotations.
I'm trying to understand if you just don't get it or are willingly being this dumb.

>>6990266
No, they're the exact same. They are aspects of someone's genetic makeup. Race is just another barrier that people have to face when attempting to cosplay a character. Your skin color doesn't make you any more special than your hair, eyes, or body shape. All these things can be bypassed with enough time, effort, and knowhow as far as costuming (except for going from skinny to fat, or plain to curvy while wearing revealing clothes)

>>6990193
You could cosplay her from the early concept art where she was white Irish chick?

>>6990273
No, they're not the same. Hair can always be changed [wigs, dye, PS post-production]. Eye color can always be changed [contacts, PS post-production] Skin color is something that is you cant be changed (there is leeway yes, tanning/skin whitening but not usually). What you seem to be missing that no one said you were any more special than any other race, just realize that in the act of cosplaying, its better to not paint yourself up as race is not a costume.
But as >>6990059 said, do what you will, just don't be surprised when someone beats the paint off of you for doing it.

>>6990318
>air can always be changed [wigs, dye, PS post-production]. Eye color can always be changed [contacts, PS post-production]
Yes, and skin color can be changed with makeup
Glad we cleared that up

>>6990318
With this line of argument, crossplaying is just as offensive. Gender is not a costume and can't really be changed. An XY will always be XY no matter how much he butchers and drugs himself.

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>Blackface

I always think of this story when I see or hear this term.

>>6990382
>this story
What happened

>>6990382
I feel like this would have been not as bad if he applied the makeup correctly

>>6990318
Uhm, if you think your whole ethnicity relies on your skin color I'm not sure what to tell you. You're ignorant, plain and simple.

>>6990382

He looks like he was working a coal mine.

>>6990413
That was after the principal had attempted to wash it off

>>6990391
by the image alone it looks like the kid dressed up like MLK for a school project and probably got suspended for it by the libertard school officials

Since this is sort of related, I wanted to try out heavy ganguro makeup (mostly just with dark foundation) just for fun, but I'm a white girl. Would that be ok? I'm really hesitant about making my skin darker in any way.

>>6990460
Don't look like shit and you should do fine
The only issue being that ganguro looks like shit imo but as long as you adhere to that community's standards I don't see the problem

>>6990135

>Fucking SJWs

Uh, are you serious? SJW's would HATE a white girl cosplaying Korra.

>>6990476
Uh, no. SJWs run a whole range of craziness.

>>6989534
but 99% it doesn't
it just makes them look shittier

>>6990018
You are clearly an idiot.
There is nothing racist about wanting to portray all aspects of a character, skin color included. If anything it is a sign of respect, you are paying tribute to a character you love.

Let me give you an example.
You see a black guy in an iron man suit. He's cosplaying Rhodes right? Now you see that same guy I the same suit, only now he's got makeup on to make him appear white, and everyone will now perceive him as cosplaying Tony Stark.

Skin color does make a difference in cosplay, sometimes. And anyone who choses to go this route isn't doing so because they're bigots, they're doing it oh of respect and admiration for a character.

I honestly don't understand how you can't see that.

>>6990516
What? I'd think he was supposed to be Tony unless he was Iron Patriot. Just like I'd think a woman in an Iron Man suit was supposed to be Tony unless she was Rescue.
Oh but that's because I actually read comics.
Fuck I'm on the wrong board again.

>>6990524
You are deliberately ignoring my point. A cosplayer who chooses to alter their skin color with makeup is doing so out of respect for the character and a desire to be completely accurate.

>>6990476
My pasty friend got harassed into deactivating for suggesting it.

I'm not from 'murica but a small non-English speaking country, and I find all this THIS IS OFFENSIVE AS FUCK !!!! talk hilarious. I'm so, so glad my country hasn't gone to the point of calling someone racist for dressing up as a member of another ethnicity for a costume party/con/whatever. And we don't have to edit out references to christian holidays/symbols in cartoons. The non-somali black people who aren't welfare misusing thieves and rats are pretty cool and hate all the ridiculous social justice talk and SJWs who think they're little children who can't stand up for themselves.

Remind me to never travel to the US, I'd probably get my cracker ass beaten by the racism police. Shit, I'm pretty sure that over there just looking at a black person counts as a hate crime.

It isn't blackface if it isn't used to exaggerate negative stereotypes.

It's just Tumblr being Tumblr.

>>6990748
I read this entire thread and this is the only post that needs to be here. Thank you.

>>6990748
THIS

>>6993742
>"OMG, I WILL PLAY UNCLE TOM FOR MY WHITE FRIENDS AND I WILL HAVE MORE WHITE FRIENDS THEN!! GOD I WISH I WERE JUST WHITE!"

Your opinion matters about 0 at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmHjxd71fU
^If you get this guy to say it's okay, maybe THEN you can go on with your blackfacing.

>>6989632
Wow that femBrief is really cute.
Though it might just be by comparison to the fugos in the rest of the pic.

>>6990071
Dat Ace needs to shave his pits.

Well, IMO they *can* do it but that doesn't necessarily mean they *should*. Here is why
>It will look retarded as fuck if you're not a 10/10 god tier cosplayer with literally perfect make up AND have suitably ambiguous facial features
No exceptions. You will look fucking retarded if you go all the way and try to cosplay as Sazh when you're a Caucasian male with a ginormous Euronose.
>This is a huge double standard for black cosplayers who cosplay as white characters.
Dark-skinned people literally can't just go a few shades lighter unless they naturally already have lightish skin. As a result, they get snubbed more for "not looking anything like the character. Just stick to dark-skinned characters, you look dumb" outside of the occasional Tumblr blog. Meanwhile, it's just a matter of foundation and tanning for light-skinned people to suddenly "look EXACTLY like the character omg. You're totally so dedicated and respectful you, like, totally transcend race when you love a character enough~!!!"(lolno). Why should everyone be okay with this?
>Nobody needs more fucking skin paint at conventions
See: Homestucks and their grey shit getting everywhere. Too many idiots don't know how to seal.
>Generally, if it's okay for dark-skinned people to not paint their skin for cosplay, why should the standards be different for light-skinned people?
Stop whining about the retards on Tumblr telling you you're "whitewashing". They literally don't matter. Your cosplay will still probably look good if your costume, wig and (non skin color related) make up is good.
Am I going to get called an SJW now?

>>6990071
>shirtless pirate out on the sea
>needs to whiten his skin

you do understand how that whole sun and tanning thing works right?

I'm a pasty white guy and cosplayed Black Baron from Madworld and got shit for racism (when Black Baron is actually a white guy in blackface makeup in the game anyway) so I'd argue against it, was annoying too as I'd done the tattoos perfectly yet kept getting glares from black cosplayers.