Band-Aid Brings Back Bandages for Diverse Skin Tones

Woke!!!

As a brown dude, I can honestly say I have never thought about the color of bandages. Who the fuck does?!

I'm white but with a fairly tan complexion, their "flesh" colored bandages have never matched my skintone. Maybe now I can use one of the browner ones.

[quote] Maybe now I can use one of the browner ones.

To fulfill your fetish, you sick fuck!

No orange for Trump?

Who else remembers when Crayolas included a "FLESH" color?

Good, something for everyone!

At last we have a band-aid in Burnt Sienna.

[quote] Maybe now I can use one of the browner ones.

That’s cultural appropriation!!!!1!!one!

Will I get canceled if I cut myself and the only band aid available is very dark?

Uh oh.

Can't they just cancel all of them and make just CLEAR ones (like they already have and I buy)? Problem solved.

I'm black. I honestly had no idea band aids were meant to be the same color as skin. It just never occured to me that that's why they were all light tan.

I appreciate this move but honestly now that I know that's what they were going for it feels kind of fucked up they hadn't done it before now? Their goal is to make products that march skin tone and they just weren't even slightly concerned with black or Asian people? Almost wish I didn't know

I don't see color. All I care about is whether the bandage will stay on, weather at the pad will absorb all of my blood, and will it hurt when I take the bandage off.

Right R13, call me when they make a Band-Aid that doesn’t pull out the thick hairs on my knuckles,

Some of these comments are stupid. If any of you can understand why, as gay men, it's refreshing and sometimes uplifting to see normal gay people portrayed on TV and in movies (and I remember how this site lost its damn mind over Call Be by Your Name) you should be able to understand why black people also like feeling represented in everyday life. It's called empathy people.

I remember a middle-aged white woman who appeared on Oprah and toured colleges in the early 90s, talking about bandaid colors and other ways minorities' needs are subtly overlooked. I can't remember her name, though.

I hope they make a pink one with blue streaks in it for me.

I'd be even happier if bandage manufacturers could finally develop ones that stay put after a couple hand washings or a shower.

Well, that settles it.

Between this and the black Bachelor announced today, I think it's safe to say that racism is officially over.

We can all stop protesting now!

Thanks, Donald!

I'll stick with dinosaur bandages, thank you.

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Nothing but posturing—this I s is the same ruthless pharma corp that helped drive the opioid crisis.

[quote]Some of these comments are stupid. If any of you can understand why, as gay men, it's refreshing and sometimes uplifting to see normal gay people portrayed on TV and in movies (and I remember how this site lost its damn mind over Call Be by Your Name) you should be able to understand why black people also like feeling represented in everyday life. It's called empathy people.

Well, speaking as a black person, I can honestly say that I have never in the past, nor do I now, give two shits about the colour of a band aid. I am, however, in total agreement with r18 and I too wish they would devote some of that R&D budget to creating a band aid that would actually stay on. But then again, I am also gay, and I found Call Be by Your Name to be both tedious and overrated, so maybe I'm a rebel.

[quote]so maybe I'm a rebel.

And you'll never-ever be, any good!

R6 YES, I remember Crayola's 'flesh color' being the pinky white color and thinking that was strange.

LOL@r24, that's great, never heard that one before.

some racist bitch that I work with posted this Band Aid article on FB. I guess she's either pissed off about it or she feels like this is some magnanimous gesture that should make black people forget all about systemic racism and the cops murdering them for the hell of it