# A model with vitilligo. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435 "2014-08-13T14:04:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/21 "2014-08-16T14:44:26Z")
Geez, way to make it all about herself. That pony probably has a face too, and some of us would like to see it! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/22 "2014-08-16T20:03:18Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Here she is [on a pony](http://33.media.tumblr.com/07ec8a5e8db8a2a3630def8f1aeace82/tumblr_n3iv9j5ThU1r0pru4o1_500.jpg). She seems to have a sense of humor about it, at least. Okay, now I’m officially in love with her. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/23 "2014-08-16T21:04:19Z")
> [@Atomic\_Mama](#): > > She’s MUCH better-looking than Michael Jackson ever was 😃 > [@running\_coach](#): > > She beat him by a nose. not at first. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/24 "2014-08-17T00:28:46Z")
All I can think of is how hard it must be to apply makeup around the white patches on her face. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/25 "2014-08-17T03:11:08Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > All I can think of is how hard it must be to apply makeup around the white patches on her face. Why would she do that? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/26 "2014-08-17T04:28:34Z")
Amazing that she can keep her balance in high heels on the runway, being dizzy all the time and shit. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/27 "2014-08-17T04:31:01Z")
> [@AnaMen](#): > > If someone is a slender white female with no unusual characteristics, of course we can say awful things about her, but everyone else is compliments only. Finally, a hero shows up. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/28 "2014-08-17T04:45:37Z")
At the risk of sounding condescending(well it was something I was oblivious to) this is what sucks about having darker skin tone. Any scar tissue like from burns, is ultra noticeable because it is pale. On those with lighter skin tones it just kind of blends in, but shows up super noticeable on those with darker tones. One of my BILs messed with his hot radiator, ooh crap it took years before his skin evened out. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/29 "2014-08-17T05:33:05Z")
> [@AnaMen](#): > > Why would she do that? Because you need foundation under whatever makeup you’re wearing for a photoshoot. Lots of foundation. You can scratch it with a fingernail. It covers pores and keeps the rest of the paint well stuck to your face while you’re sweating under lights. She would need two completely different colors of it for her light patches and the much darker tones around them. The makeup artist usually applies it in great swaths with a foam rubber sponge. She’s specifically trying to preserve her unusual look (and doesn’t always; the first photo in the Today article shows her with the darker foundation over the spots around her eyes, and normal eyeshadow atop that), so she’d need it painted on carefully with a swab or a brush in order to, er, color inside the lines. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/30 "2014-08-17T06:42:09Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Is vitilligo usually that symmetrical on the face? It doesn’t appear to be symmetrical anywhere else on her body. If it was just blotches on her face, I think it’d be a much different effect. I’m sure the symmetrical nature of her blotches is part of why she chooses to model with them. But you can say the same thing about facial features in general, though. Most people’s faces are not (quite) symmetrical, so that’s why they don’t become models. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/31 "2014-08-17T08:30:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Finally, a hero shows up. > > :rolleyes: Hero of whom? If you think I’m defending anyone, I don’t see whom or how. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/32 "2014-08-17T13:29:28Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Most people’s faces are not (quite) symmetrical, so that’s why they don’t become models. Yeah, that’s why I’m not a model. It’s my slightly asymmetrical facial features. Good to know that the fact that I’m a middle-aged, fat, balding guy, who is also ugly as sin and totally lacking in personal charisma has nothing to do with it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/33 "2014-08-17T21:32:30Z")
You are correct. A model with vitiligo isn’t what I’d expect. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/34 "2014-08-17T22:18:54Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Is vitilligo usually that symmetrical on the face? I just flew home today. This morning, connecting through O’Hare, between the B and E terminals there was a TSA security screening area. One of the TSA agents was a gentleman with vitilligo. I only caught a brief glance of him but it appeared that his facial markings were quite symmetrical. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/35 "2014-08-18T01:11:46Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Amazing that she can keep her balance in high heels on the runway, being dizzy all the time and shit. vitilligo - not _vertigo_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/36 "2014-08-18T03:18:23Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > All I can think of is how hard it must be to apply makeup around the white patches on her face. [Lee Thomas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Thomas_(reporter)) from Fox 2 Detroit suffers from this and I bet he’d go through a ton of make up too. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/37 "2014-08-18T03:45:37Z")
> [@AnaMen](#): > > Hero of whom? The world, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/38 "2014-08-18T03:47:48Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The world, I hope. So just spouting off insults, as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/39 "2014-08-18T03:56:14Z")
I haven’t insulted you. I was pointing out that you said something ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435/40 "2014-08-18T04:08:11Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I haven’t insulted you. I was pointing out that you said something ridiculous. Calling me a “hero” sarcastically is indeed an insult, and you clearly didn’t think it through, as now you don’t even know why that’s the insult you picked – note your evasion of the question by again being sarcastic instead of answering. If mocking someone because you don’t agree with them seems useful or fun to you, knock yourself out I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-model-with-vitilligo/695435.md?page=3)