By Sharanya Gopinathan
Shade Card is a new project, illustrated by Tara Anand and captioned with poetry by Anoushka Agarwal, that explores colourism in South Asia, and how it affects women.
It’s really gorgeous. Last week, Anand started posting pictures of women’s faces that had Pantone shade cards covering their eyes, depicting how, as Kajal Magazine reports, these women were paint chips. Each picture was accompanied by a poem written by Agarwal.
Anand told Agarwal in this interview that the reason she started exploring this subject was because of her own personal experience growing up a dark-skinned woman, from being teased by classmates to hearing the judgmental comments made by adults around her about her skin tone. The project aims at emphasising how there’s no correlation between beauty and complexion.
You can check out the full project on Tara Anand’s Instagram page here. While you’re at it, check out the rest of her work too. So good!