I've been asking questions about men's makeup. Well it brings me to Prince's makeup. What kind does he wear? Whatever it is it's pretty radiant and bright.
It's inyrtrdting cause Michael Jackson isn't the only one to get lighter. Prince has gotten since his first albums. ON FOr You and Prince he looks pretty dark. Now I'mno biologist but I know people normally get darker, not the other way around.

Unlike Michael Prince has escaped contraversy. Then I learned that they purposly made him darker. He had such light skin that he might not have been recieved or percieved as black byt the african-american audience.

So as time marched on P gt lighter. I'm pondering is the Sing O' The Times era his trure skin or Gold Experience/Rave UN2? However now adays he's bretty light. Don't know if it's makeup or true skin.

FOr instance in concert he looks alot different. If you've seen him close up or on the screens he actually looks pale lacking alot of color. DOn't know if this is his true color or the makeup he uses for concerts. Anyway liek most people makeup does wonders. I've seen his pics at The Superbowl with no nake and he loosk a whole lot different. Wonder what he would look like with his old dark makeup.

Actually...it isn't true that people tend to get darker. Skin loses pigment as people age -- just as hair does.

BUT...I'm quite sure Prince uses a light diffusing make-up -- which would explain why he looks lighter under stage or photographic lighting. All of his "official" photos are heavily Photoshopped, as well. In addition to touching up wrinkles, they may lighten him, as well.

No if the concert and superbowl views I've seen of him are true he's light in real life but pale. By that I mean laking strong color. Kind of greyish.

Prince wears M.A.C. to my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong but that's what everyone says) and his skin seems lighter than when he was young simply because he doesn't hang out in the sun anymore much. No operations, no bleaching. He was always a "light black person". And he tends to sometimes go for the light shades of foundation/powder....Check The Most Beautiful Girl In The World video, horribly light makeup.

Look at his father. He had a very fair complextion.

Black is beautiful no matter the many colors we come in.

SexualSuicide said:

Prince's dad was dark.

fluid said:

Prince is light skinned African American.... I saw him in concert and he is light skinned, it is not photoshop lightening. He must keep out of the sun.

Some skin colors (like mine) tend to absorb sun more than others.

I am the same color as him and I was darker when I was younger and now as I get older, I am lighter. I noticed that about my late brother too. And also my fiance was always darker and now we are almost the same color. But my skin color changes with what I wear and my make-up is one color so If i get a tan, my make-up is so wrong but that's why you have to have a summer and winter foundation. I hardly wear make-up but I am the best person to ask that question to b/c I studied it in beauty school, college, and on my own personally.

pplrain said:

I saw his father in person 2 years before he died...his skin was light.

I would love to know what kind of eyeliner he uses. I'm a sucker for nice thick eyeliner (and very black mascara).

I think Prince wears MAC makeup.But anyway,Prince is just lightskinned.His dad was definitely not dark.His dad was light and his mom was light...so hes light!damn,its not that hard 2 put 2gether and figure out
Sometimes he may appear lighter or darker in pics b/c of lighting and makeup and all that other crap.Me and all my other girl cousins got lighter as we got older and so did my aunt and some of my uncles.And we all can get very dark in the summer but by time February roles around we're back to our original color.So imagine Prince...who probably is hardly outside b/c of his status,dude is gonna be REALLY light this thread is madd weird by the way

Sirah said:

yea,back in the day...he wore some really off makeup.His neck would look light and his face WHITE

SexualSuicide said:

Again...old people are lighter. (Loss of pigment with age.)

I ain't sayin' John L. wasn't light to begin with...just that he would've been at his lightest when you saw him.

Calhoun is about to bring back her old signature...

I've known that Prince has worn some make up back in the day that didn't quite agree with his skin so instead of being yellow, he ended up looking a bit ashy. (Raspberry Beret vid folks).

I just don't think that make-up was made properly for people with skin that color. I've seen the same thing happen with some Latin people. (I've seen Apollonia come up with a white face and yellow body due to make up like that. She and Prince are kinda the same color.)

It's kinda funny imagining Prince walking into a DIllard's. He walks into the makeup department and wants to know what makup is right for him. That employee would have one story to tell.

Angelic1302 said:

I'm a different base colour, but I've found the same - as I've got older my skin has got lighter, I'm multi-heritage, are you? I wonder if the same thing happens to people who have 2 dark skinned parents?

ladycat said:

It happens to everyone -- even white folks. (Some of whom you'd think couldn't get any lighter.)

ladycat said:

Of course. Being African-American, I can also tell you that when 2 dark-skinned parents have children, they're children vary in complexion, just like any other race. 1 or 2 may carry the complexion of the parents, the others the complexion of the grandparents and so forth, actually it's not that difficult to understand;by the way, most African-Americans are multi-heritage, that's just the way it is with us, whether they have light or dark skin--you'd be surprised.....and yes I have to agree, that the skin does get lighter as one ages, but not that much lighter..
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I just don't understand where all these rumors come from about Prince having any African American roots whatsoever. He's white yall.


Mods, please update the Q&A portion of this website, so we can put this to bed.

Imago said:

Ok..now I've heard it all...
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Imago said:

DevotedPuppy said:

well...technically
Let me stop!But seriously Mani is biracial and shes a couple shades darker than him now.He needs some sun...poor thing

fluid said:

Umm no he wasn't.

Genesia said:

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John was a light skinned black man. You can go to the gallery and see the pics
P is light. Everybody does not go out and bleach their skin like Mike.

Sirah said:

Im very pale light skinned with yellow undertones like Prince. Prince maybe a shade darker than me like a light carmel. I have a hard time looking for makeup to hide blemishes and even my tone. MAC and Clinique are the only 2 cosmetics that work well for me. Everything else like Fashion Fair, Covergirl, Almay and Prescriptions have too much pink or red undertones.

Imago said:

laurarichardson said:

Ummmm...I acknowledged that John L. may have been light skinned. (I never met the man and it's often difficult to tell from photos -- especially black-and-white ones.)

And who said anything about Prince bleaching his skin?