This made me smile today (race/ethnicity)

[ArriettyJones]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51611514

Little spot of good news

I know in the end it’s a commercial decision but good for Tesco nevertheless.

(I did look and couldn’t see another thread in this. Apologies if I missed one.)

I genuinely did not know plasters were meant to be skin coloured, I honestly didn't. You learn something new every day. The ones I buy seem to be red (the fabric ones) and I don't know anyone that colour. Or I use the blue ones at work in case they fall in someone's dinner.

I must admit I never noticed or even thought about this so a good eye opener and good bit of news. Do bigger companies with international supply chains like Elastoplast offer any variety? I prefer see through ones but I end up with kiddies character colourful versions because we have an amazing stock of these in the house since the kids were small.

I often thought it is so obvious how limited options are in makeup, nude underwear and sheer tights. When travelling I noticed more of a variety according to the local popularity for certain items but in directional terms, the choice is still very poor and consequently it hasn’t trickled down to affordable brands. Quite frankly, a pants state of affairs.

Brilliant!

I'm white and think it's brilliant, can't believe it has only just happened.

When you are part of a majority it often doesn't occur that something as simple as a plaster can be a problem.

I am however lefthanded so understand how things are made for the majority and others have to suck it up.

I had no idea they were meant to be skin toned either - not privilege, they don’t match my skin tone at all so it just never occurred to me they might have been meant to. Mind. Blown. Assumed they were just beige like lots of bandages and dressings are. I don’t tend to use plasters as much as gauze or clear dressings anyway.

But if they were meant to be skin toned, I’m glad they are now available in lots of skin tones!

They don’t match my skin tone anyway — I’m too pale...!

Good news.

It's something that had never crossed my mind until I was reading Noughts and Crosses with dd a few years ago. It's one of those things that seems so obvious once it's been pointed out to you that you feel daft for not realising it before. After that I started noticing other things (like "flesh coloured" tights) that I'd been oblivious to.

It always amused me that plasters where in 'flesh tone'. Whose flesh tone exactly?! Not mine and I am pale! It is a bad peachy pink tone that light foundation came in. Remember when there was only 3 shades of foundation? This was the light shade!

I read this yesterday and while i applaud the initiative, it feels like they let themselves down with the naming. Perhaps it was lunchtime or something.

I mean, who is ever going to say "I have medium skin colour"?
I think numbers might have been a less lazy choice.

(And also why do the boxes look like a throwback to the 1980s?)

Funnily enough I was in Tesco and noticed these today! I wonder what’s taken them so long to spot what must surely be an enormous gap in the market?

Does anyone remember the 'skin-tone' crayon in the 90s? Every time I did colouring in I was reminded I wasn't normal 😭

I'm mostly joking but I've clearly not got over it.

amazon were selling them a while ago.
in fact lots of places have been for ages but don't all crave the tesco publicity.
Not saying it's not a good thing but it's not new
www.amazon.co.uk/Fortuna-Plaster-Assorted-Toned-Plasters/dp/B00ENF075Q?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

www.amazon.co.uk/Sterostrip-Steroplast-Premium-Elastic-Plasters/dp/B005GTP4AG/ref=pd_sbs_200_t_0/261-6871240-6749158?psc=1&pf_rd_p=e44592b5-e56d-44c2-a4f9-dbdc09b29395&_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_wg=45j1E&pf_rd_r=2Y1KQBABF7HA8D2PYN3V&pd_rd_i=B005GTP4AG&pd_rd_w=g7wuX&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&refRID=2Y1KQBABF7HA8D2PYN3V&pd_rd_r=71fb150b-1a71-4314-8cc5-d4c12189143a

what a long link!

ooooo I’ve never found a plaster in my skin tone before, we have a tesco near by, I’ll have to buy a pack the next time I go in.

My cousin (female) often gets frustrated that nude tights are only available for white people in shops and it’s expensive to source them online, along with nude underwear.

I was also devastated when m&s stopped selling nude court shoes in a range of skin tones before i'd noticed they'd started.

Nude also means without clothes, and so refers to items of clothing that make you appear as if you are not wearing them

My Mum managed to get dark brown plasters in the 1980s so this isn’t the first, but great all the same.

I never realised that plasters were 'skin tone', any plaster I've ever had has not been my skin tone.

Personally I'd like to find a plaster that doesnt remove layers of my skin. Even the hypoallergenic ones do it. Dont even get me started on the plasters that hospitals use, uber sticky and really painful to remove!

All of the white people on this thread going ohhh but it isn't my shade of white. Have a fucking think. It's not about it matching exactly, it's about how it represents what we think of as 'normal' (white) and how we unthinkingly cater to that market. You're just proving the point - you've never thought about it because you've never had to. It's not part of a bigger picture for you.

@vikkimoog don't be so thick. You've said yourself that nude is named after white skin. Nude tights catered, for a long time, for white skin only. Various shades of nude for various shades of white people. Don't pretend that's anything to do with the colour name rather than systemic racism and exclusion.

There were no tights for people of colour.

Also, all bandages are white: I assume so that any blood seepage/ pus seepage is easy to spot. Is this why most plasters are a very pale beige

No, because otherwise they'd be white. Some plasters, where it is important to see if blood comes through (such as after donating blood) are white.