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Feb. 5th, 2019 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogRecent pictures of costumers/cosplayers I've seen bring a question to mind.
In costumes of fantasy races with skin colors like green or orange or what-have-you, potential problems relating to blackface or similar aren't an issue. Dark Elves / Drow though...how do you deal with that? I primarily think of Drow in the context of the Forgotten Realms D&D fantasy setting. I picture them with jet black skin, like obsidian glass; pitch black with a certain shine to it. Not a skin color that any actual human being has.
Does that kind of makeup feel inappropriate as part as part of a costume to you?
In costumes of fantasy races with skin colors like green or orange or what-have-you, potential problems relating to blackface or similar aren't an issue. Dark Elves / Drow though...how do you deal with that? I primarily think of Drow in the context of the Forgotten Realms D&D fantasy setting. I picture them with jet black skin, like obsidian glass; pitch black with a certain shine to it. Not a skin color that any actual human being has.
Does that kind of makeup feel inappropriate as part as part of a costume to you?
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Date: 2019-02-05 07:27 pm (UTC)Another friend on here was at a gay pride do in Australia recently and came across a guy in black body paint trying to do a Chewbacca.
He looked like an Aboriginal in dream dance paint.
Really not good.
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Date: 2019-02-05 07:40 pm (UTC)I definitely think that anything looking like traditional cultural or religious garb is generally a bad idea.
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Date: 2019-02-05 11:38 pm (UTC)I'm in a FB group for LARPers of colour, and the consensus is that if you must play a goddamned Drow, paint yourself purple or something. People will get it. I defer to their superior knowledge and experience and agree completely.
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Date: 2019-02-07 12:50 pm (UTC)