OlderRihanna - “Allure” January 2008
Rihanna (in Lanvin) lets her guard down in the January 2008 issue of Allure, as shot by Michael Thompson.
The Barbados babe shot the cover at New York City’s Lux Studio with Robin Thicke’s CD, The Evolution of Robin Thicke, playing in the background.
On her so-called fling with Josh Hartnett: “I went to [the club] Pink Elephant, and he came by. All of a sudden, the next day I’m seeing that we were kissing and hugging up each other. You can’t even go out with a friend who’s a celebrity and have a good time without people making shit up…well, at least he’s good-looking, right?”
On regularly clearing up American misconceptions about Barbados: “I can’t get upset. They just don’t know. (Barbadians speak English, have roads, and use indoor toilets.)”
On chopping her hair off into a precise bob and dying it black like Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux: “My friends still live in Barbados, and they let me know that everyone asks for the ‘Rihanna haircut.’”
On being teased growing up for having paler skin than her peers: “I was cultured in a very ‘black’ way. But when I got to school I’m being called ‘white’…they would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn’t understand.”
On beauty being in the eye of the beholder: “While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it’s thick—girls with huge butts and nice curves.”
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On regularly clearing up American misconceptions about Barbados: “I can’t get upset. They just don’t know. (Barbadians speak English, have roads, and use indoor toilets.)”
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D.a.m.n right we do. That is so true what she said though, being from Barbados myself and living in the UK, I have to deal with those misconceptions on a daily basis.
Nice to read about her talking about her (well our) home country. She is fantastic. Thanks JJ.
I know many white Bajans. She’s not that pale.
Funny most of the Bajans Iin my area are very wealthy and very educated. And I would never think they don’t have toilets. Please.
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I am a white bajan and she is def not pale, but I could see why she would get teased, anyways now she can look at all of those who used to tease her and just basically go ha.
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cute i love seeing rihanna on magazine covers
Just beautiful, i’m buying that mag!
I dont believe for one bit she got teased for being PALE. I am West Indian, and we are very Colour Struck. If u’re light your’re beautifull. If u get teased for anything is being DARK SKINNED. We still have that Stupid Slave mentallity.
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“You can’t even go out with a friend who’s a celebrity and have a good time without people making **** up…well, at least he’s good-looking, right?”…THANKS FOR MAKING SURE WE KNOW IT WAS A PR STUNT. HA! CAMERA *****.
The majority of US citizens have that misconception, not just for Barbados, but for every island of the Caribbean. That’s sad.
i like her
i have seen a whole lot of ugly ass people who are light-skinned and ugly as white people too. Beauty is not at all white there are a lot of light and dark-skinned beautiful women. Just like with the noses long parrot noses are not beauty either, I hate it when people say black folks noses are too wide,,, well hello….. white long noses arent the best noses either. I have seen blacks with small noses and whites with big noses. There are people in the world born with 6 arms and one eye and all kinds of messed up parts and people worry about the size of a nose… pathetic people with this beauty crap… all this plastic surgery and your ass is still fucked up in the head…. and dont talk about when that plastic junk starts slipping. omg?
she looks amazing i love this girl, i think she will take some grammy’s home very soon!!
we get the picture dee dee
@ nikki…i didnt expect her to say that either. i don’t know people to get teased because they’re too light. & rihanna isn’t light, she’s brown skinned. it’s not like she’s the same color as chris brown.
“Rhianna haircut?” I think she’ll find Mrs Becks was the originator. Because she dyed hers jet blk doesnt mean she owns it
*eyeroll*
I like her
she’s a good singer and is cute
There are many people all over the Caribbean who have more money and education that some US born Americans.
the misconception can go bothways. Many people think that people from the South have no toilets and marry their cousins or people from the Midwest have not education. Not true.
fugly untalented ***** and a ****. she just got none talents. i hate her.
Love her, she’s beautiful and very talented.
I like her. She seems like such a sweetheart.
Posh didn’t start this hair cut…Black girls in the 90s–mainly early nineties would wear their hair in assymetrical cuts with door knocker earrings…Actually, Salt n Pepa and MC Hammer’s back up dancers inspired black chicks to dye their hair blonde and cut it into the same hairstyle that Posh Spice is wearing now.
Also, on that Magazine cover Rihanna is DARK, but on other pictures she’s LIGHT, almost like a very tanned white girl, and with those eyes I can see DARK black girls getting jealous and picking on her. It happens a lot.
I don’t agree with you NIKKI, am from the west Indies aswell and in my own family some of us are light some dark and we’re all the same no one cares about light or dark, so keep that slave mentality to yourself.
Thats fine Kathy, but alot of ppl will disagree with u as well. Unlike in America where u constantly hear light skin black ppl being told they are NOt black enough,, Do u ever hear light skin ppl being told that No. By the way I’m lightskin. As they say I’m a SHABIN. However u constantly hear Darkskin ppl being told they are tooooo dark or whateva. We lightskin ppl are always told we have a NICE complexion. Like Buju says……..” MOST OF ALL ME LOVE ME BROWNIN”
THATS NOT HER REAL EYE COLOUR!
they always make them lighter and prettier on magazines…
she has light hazem eyes.. not green
R U FREAKIN KIDING ME!
rihanna made that haircut popular people star rocking it when she got it victoria beckham didn’t start **** she been having that hairstyle for a long tome and people didn’t copy her or pat any attention to it but when rihanna start rocking it chicks start copying it
She is absolutely fabulous, she has something special
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rihanna has natural green eye she don’t wear contact she would have been called out if she did
rihanna eyes are not hazel eva pickford,bow wow ,free from 106 and park and the contact beyonce be wearing are hazel eyes rihanna eyes are green and they are real
If Rihanna got teased it was probably because she looked funny with her forehead and long torso but teased because she is a light skin black…NEVER. I think she lied about that one. Definitely NOT in the Caribbean and certainly NOT in Barbados.
People only ever mention and ridicule dark skinned people who never hear anything positive about their skin complexion.
oh, give it a rest people about rihanna lying about about being teased about her skin shade. Y ou weren’t there, you don’t know. It may have just been the crowd of kids at her school. She’s pretty and I could see catty girls thinking of any excuse to make fun of her–look at these stupid posters here being catty about things that no one even cares about like her forehead.
She looks beautiful, as u sual. I love this girl.
how lame are some of you people to think that victoria beckham “invented” the a-line bob. That’s been around all century peoples. Rihanna’s been rocking it in various ways though that is much more interesting than Victoria’s though. She can make it look classic or punk rock, depending on how she gets it styled.
She looks GREAT! This girl can go from sultry to fresh faced so quickly it’s crazy. She has a total baby face but she’s built, so I think that’s how the transitions happen! And I”m so glad she didn’t hook up with methface hartnett! She’s too cute for him-she should be with shia!
classic beauty
I can’t believe how spiteful some posters are about rihanna- the green eyed monster sure comes out when her pretty face pops up on this site!
she is a classic beauty and that’s why when she dresses up in stuff that’s trashy it just looks so wrong. Cause she really is too pretty and exquisite for such things. This is a perfect example of what looks best on her.
I wish her and shia were still together-I notice she denied josh and jay -z, but not shia in terms of who she hasn’t dated. Hmmmm…..
how is she not pale? she’s very fair complexioned.
go back to shia ri ri.
SHE DOES NOT HAVE GREEN EYES.
eyes r digitally inhanced in photoshoots to look lighter and brighter.
its a well know fact.
downsyndrome-hanna has ‘light’ eyes but she sure as hell doesnt have green ones..
yoo-you are so jealous of this girl you can’t even see straight.
i really liked her first single but after that…nothing. she seems to be a very nice person with a nice personality..but her songs…i really don’t like it especially umbrella!
What a fab cover-she looks amazing. She’s having an amazing year.
The one major thing about this girl is just that she does not sell…
I say this because look at all the mags she has been in an none of them had major sales due to her being on the cover are a article inside the mag, she is cute but she has no talent………and everyone knows this……..
And I love how when ever she is not selling she always seems to either bring up her and J or her and B or her and her ex crack addict dad to sell her self and this still does not help her oh and lets not forget she goes back to something about Barbados.
How many times now has she let her guard down this year in a mag…STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP there are so many sob stories you can tell…
Marketing 1 on 1……….
I totally understand what shes saying.
I’m brazilian and once i was talking to a spanish guy in an airport and he asked me if i lived in the jungle and had a lion. My friend said yes to joke him. But then i told him that we live like he does. weare normal people.
and by the way rhanna is so beautiful… so exotic. i love her
i wish i could have the rihanna haircut, but i would look like a cookie if a did.
aren’t “barbadians” called bajans??
“While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it’s thick—girls with huge butts and nice curves.”
Rihanna, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but you aren’t particularly thick, nor do you have a huge butt. (And for a country whose beauty standard is “skinny,” there do seem to be an awful lot of Americans who like curves.)
yes Riri….Hartnett is very good looking! im glad that you realise! you can go Riri…jaja
As a TRINIDADIAN….I can tell you she is not considered fair by ANY stretch of the imagination.
SEAN PAUL is fair and looks damn near white.
She is white-washed and NEEDS to stop taking the caribbean backwards with her asinine statements about race relations.
She is DEFINITELY a browning….NOT a redz at all……………..
I am from the Caribbean and I must say that there are some ignorant indiviuals, who resort to calling people names. It is also true that people who are of a darker complexion are overlooked sometimes in business places because of the type of customers, that may visit these establishments bec they feel that having a dark person will scare the lighter skinned people or whites away. But I must say that this is becoming less ie that kind of bias. But it still exists. There are still parents who become alarmed if their son or daughter brings home a darkie, and many of our C’bbean men feel that fairer women are better, as it raises their status quo or self image; so we can’t deny this nonsense exists.
I have been to Barbados many times and there are some there who are very colour uptight. So I can understand where people of a dark and light complexion are coming from. I do believe that Rihanna must have been teased, but she should understand it was in the folly of youth, who were fuelled by the images society had already concotced of light skinned people… you know that they were way better etc… we can’t deny that. It happens in my country too.
Rihanna isn’t white. She is a black woman that has a fair complexion. I have cousins who are a lot paler than she is. I am dark skinned but on both sides of my family my great great grand parents were white. I have a bro who is dark skinned, but has straight hair. But in the US or Europe they would think he permed it, bec to them blacks have a certain kinda hair/complexion.
Skin colour is just the gene doing its own thing. I like Rihanna, but she isn’t pale and she isn’t white either. Her features are not caucasian features either. when she stands or sits next to a white person you see a difference… you know who is who.
MOst people from the Caribbean are of mixed race.
It’s silly when we let race and identity get in the way.
Also I hate it when people say things like: She is nice for a darkie as if dark girls not nice… why can’t they just say she is a beautiful woman, period. This is the stuff that exists in the C’bbean. What we need to do is as a society and a world is grow up and forget about colour, class and identity and focus on what’s in the heart. There is a person beyond the colour.
actually perry, yo isn’t jealous of rihanna at all i think they’re just being real about it. i went to schook with rihanna and i can tell u that she does have green eyes. thats for damn sure lol
mi scusi, she does not
ok, here is the thing
1) her eyes are naturally hazel. i went school wit her.she comes back to Barbados to visit.i see her dad like almost every day.i had to c her everyday especially wen she faked running at P.E around the field, or ” sat this one out” each class.
2) she was never teased because of her complexion, at school she wasnt that light.she was teased cause of the spots that she had all over her legs that looked like chicken poxs…wonder where those went.and even then people didnt tease he that much cuz she was pat of some “elite” crews
3) in Barbados, we are very advanced as well as a beautiful country.we build our houses from wood or real cement, we dont use drywall, we use real bricks through out, not rocks, bricks and cement
we do everything that America and England does and has.and every Barbadian has the opportunity to own a car, a house and optionally a pool, depending on ur neighborhood.
4)No one use to exhibit any sort of racism towards her as i implied, so for her to say something like that is very hurtful, i loved her new album, my favourite song must be breaking dishes but afta wat she said, thats a shameful lie.she jus lost my support.she wasnt the sharpest tool in the shed, but she went to the secondary school ranking third in education in the island and infamous for the amount of entertainers and athletes it produced.students from our school went to america and england and graduate top of the class all the time. she makes us sound shut in, all of our schools are mixed.we have white, black, Indian, ricj, poor, middle class etc.everyone respects everyone, except for her and a few of her pals who felt they owned the school. but those are my best days at any educational institution.
i hope she keeps the Barbadian flag flying high, and remember God and remains true to herself, and don’t try to conform or play ythe pity card to arise sympathy or push her career.you get further being honest than u do lying girl.continue with the good music but don’t lie like that again.
all her friends weren’t stuck up, jus a few but she did have a few kind ones, so lemme clarify that. she had an ok voice but she shudnt have left her two friends she used to sing with.beyonce didnt leave destiny’s child, they grew together and then they separated, rihanna drop dem fast , or there wud b two mo girls singing with her.and they were some of the kind ones funny huh.
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I went to primary school with Rihanna.
She lying.
Clear/ Light skinned people were “favoured”.
She lying.
o pleaze rihanna thats bull about her getting made fun of for having light skin she should close her mouth next time she want to say somthin about that anyways rihanna paints a kindof fake image of what she wants us to think she looks like cuz she has hazel eyes and i do believe her ultra pale skin happened when she came out with good girl gone bad album and she uses a special skin lightening cream to lighten her complexion more and more. i dont really like rihanna cuz since shes black she doesnt create a positve image to other black girls cuz most girls of color dont have bright green eyes and many have brown skin or deep brown skin instead of pale…pale skin indicates what da stupid media wants wich is to look more euro white and by her image she looks more towards the white category cuz they want her to look like that cuz being very light skin is appealing for the white audience which would get her more fans!
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