User blog comment:Aphrodite Sweetheart/Official Winx Club WOW and 4th movie discussion blog/@comment-24027341-20160711133519/@comment-26569404-20160727113302

It's a delicate issue. People sometimes lighten a dark-skinned person in pictures to make them more "appealing," since society still subconsciously believes light skin is more beautiful. That's not always the reason, though. Sometimes, it is just an artistic choice. Other times, it's because of how color works. Dark skin (or a dark object) can create a sort of "black hole" in an image, and the person (or object) is lightened to minimize that effect.

But if people see that a dark-skinned person has been lightened up, they tend to assume it's for the first reason: to make them look more "appealing." That mentality needs to die out. Dark skin is just as beautiful.