Sepia Mutiny discusses if Ms. Aishwarya Rai selling L’Oreal Hair Color (why the fcuk any desi woman would want to change her hair color from stunning black to bleached brown in beyond me!) to the goras/ firangis is a gaint step for desi-kind?

I think not, not especially after this (not that I liked Ms. Rai in the first place anyway; the haterade fuglies like me have for beautiful people):

To add more noise to Sepia, I put Google to work and unearthed the following "outlier" photos of Ms. Rai:

without makeup; in those 80s hairstyles; as a dorky teenager.

What miracles time and the lards of makeup have wrought! :)