For what seems like an eternity, flesh-tone underwear had been relegated to taupe, beige and maybe mauve. Whose skin is really any of those colors? Catalina Girald, CEO and founder of Naja ...

To see whether variations in the human gene play a role in determining skin color, Cheng’s team located the gene on the International Haplotype Map, a database of sites in the genome where DNA ...

I had never seen ballet tights this color in person. With a color palette that included Toasted Almond, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Mocha and Espresso, my daughter's dance experience began to sink in.

“I simply wanted to have a flesh-tone shoe that reflected my skin color. Therefore, I wouldn’t need to apply makeup to my ballet shoes because it’s a long and messy process,” Underwood said.

1 Melanin, the pigment that gives color to skin (and eyes) is produced in cells called melanocytes. ... 2 Crayola once had a color called “flesh,” which was the color of Caucasian flesh.

“It’s taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a ‘band-aid’ in my own skin tone,” 45-year-old Apollon wrote last week about ...

Redefining ‘flesh-colored’ bandages makes medicine more inclusive. Popularizing brown bandages would help normalize dark skin, a medical student argues ...

They have no choice—ballet shoes only come in “flesh” colors for people with light skin. But now, reports Kirstie Brewer for the BBC , that’s changing.

CLEVELAND — Recently, a video of a black ballerina enthusiastically opening up her very first pair of brown flesh-colored satin pointe ballet shoes went viral. The video, posted to Tiktok, has ...

A 45-year-old black man shared a powerful message about inclusion on Twitter when he wrote about a band-aid that matched his skin tone. Dr. Dominique Apollon's tweets went viral last week and ...