/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

To start with, it looks bad and patchy on her skin, and she got it all over her gloves too which looks disgusting.
Secondly, no one thinks a white person cosplaying a black character is whitewashing, except possibly the most sjw-hungry tumblerinas. The same way no one thinks cosplaying a fat character when you’re skinny is fatphobic, or cosplaying a male version of a female character is sexist. Or cosplaying a blind character when you can see is ableist.
If someone is a stickler for accuracy, the skin tone is never going to look accurate anyway. Whether you use paint, arm socks, or straight makeup, it’s always going to be obvious it’s not your real skin tone. If you’re so anal for accuracy, I don’t know why you wouldn’t pick a character that more closely resembled your own physical features. If you just want to cosplay a character you love, then inaccuracy shouldn’t be an insurmountable hurdle to begin with.