
Sade proves on the April cover of Ebony that there is nothing old about 51. The 'Soldier of Love' singer looks amazing and ageless in her cover photo, but the magazine has generated some internet buzz because one of the Brit's signature features seems to have been airbrushed away. Her freckled fans are up in arms. It's not as if she wouldn't have looked just as beautiful with her nose and cheeks covered in the familiar dots.

Tell us: do photo editors go overboard with airbrushing? Do you like Sade better with freckles?


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By: Keshia on 3/05/2010 1:28PM
Maybe its just heavy makeup? I dnt knw, but she is beautiful with or without!
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By: Shannon on 3/05/2010 2:07PM
I'm not African American, but do have freckles. I think they add character to a face. Sade is especially beautiful with them.
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By: kingdavidlives on 3/05/2010 2:45PM
Couldn't it just be make-up?
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By: marilyn on 3/05/2010 3:23PM
someone did a lousy job of her lipstick on the magazine. Its all over her outer top lip! yuck
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By: 99Problems on 3/05/2010 4:29PM
The hypocrisy of the Black elite. We tell our people all the time, it doesn't matter what you look like, it’s what in your hearts we say. But here the most respected black publication world-wide submitting to the "one size fits all" mentality. You have done God's work an injustice by saying his work is not good enough for EBONY. Shame on you. The freckles are SADE with her hair down!
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By: Jazzbenzo on 3/05/2010 10:38PM
Tell me, what should you look like at 50???
she looks great!
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By: MysticalLady on 3/06/2010 11:42AM
Some of you are haters.. Some of you want to make her less
black..Some of you want to make her more black..
And some of you just want to complain...
I don't think this is the first picture that her freckles are not
showing...
I see why she doesn't deal with the public that much...LOL
I wouldn't F-K with ya either...lol
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By: Sus7637 on 3/07/2010 10:35AM
SHANAYNAY FROM MARTIN STFU AND WORRY ABOUT YOU AND YOUR LIFE! YOUR JUST JEALOUS AND WISHED YOU LOOKED AS GOOD AND AGELESS AS SADE DOES. EVEN WITHOUT THE AIR BRUSHING-SHE STILL LOOKS GOOD SO QUIT YOUR HATING JUST BECAUSE YOU MUST LOOK LIKE A GRANNY IN THE FACE WITH LINES AND SHADOWS
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By: The Make Up Artist on 3/07/2010 12:33PM
Maybe...just maybe she wanted to wear a base or foundation or even the famous Dermablend to cover them up...especially since she knew she was getting a close up. I noticed that alot of women of all races wear that stuff to hide there blemishes, birthmarks even tats on their faces. I've never seen to many celebs period without it. At least we've seen her without the stuff. If that in fact what it is ...not a airbrushed picture.
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By: tej on 3/07/2010 9:19PM
so what?
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By: tej on 3/07/2010 9:37PM
so?
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By: Weil on 3/12/2010 3:47PM
People have their opinions whether they are negative or positive. Just because someone doesn't find someone else attrative or beautiful doesn't mean that they are haters. Hate is a very very strong word and some of you younger people use it like you use the word YO. You sound so fuggN hateful when you call someone else a hater. If I said that you were Fugly, does that mean that I hate you? NO NO NO, it means that I think you're fugly...period. As for Sade, I saw her in a short skit on Wanda a few weeks ago and she did not have on makeup. Guess what, although she is a nice looking woman, she looked every bit of 50 and more. He eyes were drooping and her skin looked like that of most caucasian women her age. Not saying that she's caucasian, but that how they age. Sorry. We all know dayum well that Sade no longer look like that cover photo. What ever happened to growing old gracefully? The only alternative to not growing old, is dying young
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By: lily on 3/08/2010 1:45AM
What difference does it make whether her freckles are covered or exposed? Sade looks lovely either way, her voice is beautiful, her body is in great shape. She's beautiful, just beautiful.
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By: Charles on 3/08/2010 7:31AM
From hemoroids,online dating,botox and freckles all in the same place WTF I declare this the place where the Crazies hang out, the rest of us need not post.
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By: Danny Edwards on 3/08/2010 10:51AM
I was a small theatre in north London a few months ago and was amazed to be sitting sbout six seats away from Sade. She looked just as beautiful in the flesh as she does on TV or in Ebony magazine. She doen't need airbrushing!
Now if that other Brit export Seal ever makes the front cover the airbrush girl will have her work cut out for her! (Hey, I'm kiddin lighten up)
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By: lindy on 3/08/2010 1:00PM
Yo,SADE is a natural!Like Alisha Keyes..We dig her no matter what she LOOKS like.She looks great for her age,an been thru hell with her man.Pick on someone else like beonyce..who is so fake!an LOOKS like she stinks.Thank You..We out ...Texasvia Ohio.....ONE
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By: ADRIAN HARRIS OF SOUTH GEORGIA on 3/08/2010 6:07PM
MASCULINE SALUTATIONS SEPIA SAVIOR!!! ALL INSIDE AND OUT, ETERNITY AND IN BETWEEN IS YOU AND YOURS!!! SEPIA PEOPLE, I'M A JOHHNY COME LATELY. WHEN I WAS GROWING UP A MODEL WITH THAT MANY FRECKLES OR ANY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE!!! WE SEPIA SPECTRUM PEOPLE HAVE BROKEN THE MOLD AGAIN!!! MADE HISTORY!!! PIONEERED AND BROKEN NEW GROUND AND HAVE MADE A NEW UNIVERSE OF POSSIBILITY FOR OTHER YOUNG SISTERS AND OTHER WOMEN IN THIS BUSINESS!!! BEAUTY CAN COME WITH BLEMISHES!!! BUT IT IS WHAT IS INSIDE YOU!!! AS FAR AS THE PHOTOS, FOR ME IT'S HER HAIR. HER FRECKLES ARE MORE ALURING TO ME BECAUSE HER FACE IS NOT COVERED UP BY HER HAIR!! THIS BLACK WOMAN HAS AN EXQUISTE FACE!! THAT'S MY OPINION!! PEACE MY PEOPLE!! REMEMBER NO DRUGS ARE FOR US!!! READ ON!!! WRITE ON!!! DO ON!!! PRAY ON!!! GOD LOVES US ANYWAY!!! UNTIL!!
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By: Eighty7Princess on 4/09/2010 9:05PM
So what??? an it's probably just makeup, either way who cares?... 'cause it sure isn't a big deal to me.
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