Video: Tyra Banks Puts Aspiring Top Models in Blackface
On last night's episode of America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks brought the girls to a sugarcane field in Hawaii. She decided to dress them up as bi-racial, which means blackface for some. "It's going to suck to scrub it off later," says one contestant. "I've always wondered what I'd look like as a different race," enthuses another. "I can't believe my face got so burned," worries a third, once-very-pale girl. "I literally feel like my flesh could fall off right now." Her makeup covered the redness, but ouch. And that was just one of the many very painful moments in the episode.

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