BOLUSOD NEWS : Model revealed she has previously had to bring her own foundation on photoshoots due to lack of shades for black skin tones

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Naomi Campbell has opened up about how the lack of makeup for black-skinned models in her early career led to a magazine shoot on which her skin “looked grey”.

Speaking on BBC’s Woman’s Hour on Thursday, the 50-year-old supermodel recalled how she was thrilled to have asked to be on the cover of Italian Vogue in her early career.

However, after arriving at the photoshoot, which was for the June 1988 issue of the magazine, Campbell says she was told by the makeup artist: “Oh, we didn’t know you were black”.

“He said he didn’t have the foundation for me,” the model continued. “He had to mix some colours that he had of foundations to make up own colour, and that consisted of a lot of grey.”

Campbell explained that seeing the result on the cover of the magazine reduced her to tears.

“When that cover came out, I just cried,” she said on the programme.

“I wanted so much to be on the cover of this publication so much... it was Italian Vogue actually. But I didn’t want to be grey.”