Band aides to be finally made in different skin tones

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The plasters, which Tesco has said will ‘better represent the nation’, were developed in response to a now-viral tweet from Dominique Apollon, from April last year, in which he described his emotional response to using a plaster that matched his skin tone for the first time.

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It's taken me 45 trips around the sun, but for the first time in my life I know what it feels like to have a "band-aid" in my own skin tone. You can barely even spot it in the first image. For real I'm holding back tears.

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It was the Caucasian characters that were different and in the minority. ‘Skin coloured’ items like plasters were dark brown and I was absolutely baffled because reading that made me realise that I wasn’t just marginalised or in the minority in school, but also in this part of the world. ‘Skin coloured’ items were never dark brown; it was as if I and my skin tone didn’t exist.

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