A contestant on The CW show America’s Next Top Model was describing her “transformation” from a white American woman into what was supposed to be a half Japanese, half Malagasy (from Madagascar) woman for the episode’s racial-mixing modeling challenge.
Assigned to be transformed into a Tibetan-Egyptian woman, another white model reflected, “hair and makeup is definitely a long process today … all of us girls have to be painted and plastered with different colors. I mean, it’s going to suck to have to scrub it off later.”