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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Buzz is moving around Beyonce's past picture dispense for the land fashion magazine, L'Officiel Paris. Unfortunately for Beyonce, the salutation to the photos isn't entirely positive.

The imbibe superstar appears on the counterbalance of the magazine's newborn March 2011 issue. However, in one picture inside the issue, the singer's wound is visibly darkened with black cosmetics on her face and neck, which whatever blogs hit tagged as offensive "blackface."

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In the rest of the photos, including the counterbalance photo, Beyonce appears without the dark makeup, clad in African-themed attire.

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In a evidence to Access Hollywood, the business raved over Beyonce and the test images conveyed.

"A queen, a goddess, Beyonce is a surprise example with a divine voice. We're thrilled she's opening a season of celebrating the 90th anniversary of L'Officiel de la Mode. The program was planned as using art and fashion in paying homage to African queens," the magazine's evidence noted. "Beyonce mentioned the creator Fela Kuti in the discourse as one of her musical inspirations. It was after misquoted as the inspiration for the shoot. We would like to explain that it is not the case.

"As for the artistic makeup, the inspiration came from individual African rituals during which makeup is utilised on the face. We encounter the images beautiful and inspiring," the evidence concluded.

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A cloth for Beyonce did not hit a interpret on the matter.

Fela Kuti, whom the evidence mentions as one of Beyonce's inspirations, was a Nigerian musician/activist who died in 1997.

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This isn't the prototypal time Beyonce has been at the edifice of a picture dispense controversy. In 2008, whatever advisable the singer's wound had been lightened for a L'Oreal ad.

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