skin tone

"My sister gave birth to light-skinned children but my children are darker skinned. I noticed that my mother favours my sister's children over mine due to their skin tone and it hurt my feelings a lot," Fatima says.

If they see you as a certain skin tone, whether you’re an American national or not, they come for you.

She adds that the mask has helped to "keep my skin tone looking more even" and faded marks on her face more quickly.

Colourism is prejudice against people who have a darker skin tone or the preferential treatment of those who are the same race but have lighter skin.

American content creator Amira, known as Xmiramira online, created a custom skin tone pack for The Sims 4 that's still used by many players today.