Do you think this makeup artist making a white girl black is racist?

[Mystical]

Okay. First of all, I'm aware that this is a mods worst nightmare thread, and I am sorry for that. It shouldn't be and I do hope that those on this forum can keep themselves composed and on topic enough for me to get the answers I seek without this being a racist platform.

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When you go out into public, you see men and women who color their hair/wear eye color change contacts, sport tattoos, some people fIle their teeth to look like sharks or get dental implants to fix their crooked teeth--even chin implants, nose jobs, butt implants, breast implants, etc. And these are considered social norms. In India finding an actor in Bollywood whose nose hasn't been altered surgically, is a task! 

So why not skin color? Why is it taboo to change that-- for vanity or artistic reasons? We are all human, after all. Why is that the only part of us we can't alter?? I know what's running through your mind right now. Countless misrepresentations of African Americans by racist Hollywood and the like, faces overpainted with what looks like coal paint. I know "black face" is a horrific representation of a time period in which an entire race was being suppressed and killed under "Jim Crow" laws.

But..

Fuck Jim Crow rules. They're gone. They're dead. The only place they live is in the hearts of hateful individuals who have no say in anything, anymore. Why allow their power grab to continue to live on??

Is there a point where we could separate "altering someones skin color for benign reasons" --apart from the wrongs of history--and blur the line of race enough to eradicate that line altogether??? We are already doing it in practice. We have so many interracial families and children.. I would imagine that the confusion of whether "I am X or Y" might be less, if it was socially norm to transition skin color back and forth visually, based on style and personal choice? Imagine the difference fluid race could make in the eyes of so many adopted, or interracial children? Or how about the kids whose parents spew hatred at home, yet tolerance and acceptance is the norm outside?

When I was in my late teens I was messing around with home tan lotions and sprays. I thought it was just amazing how I could alter the color of my prominently ghost white peach skin into societies preferred "tan". It was nice not being my pale self for once. And to this day, women (and Donald Trump) tan themselves on a regular basis! If I had the money for it, I might've tried buying dark makeup just to see how I looked with dark skin. Can you believe that? For young women, vanity and experimentation with their beauty is a thing. Obviously I grew up in the suburbs in a small dominantly white town. But I was never taught hate or racism. Tolerance and love are what stuck. I realize for many, this issue is inescapable and one and the same with their lives. For instance there are currently more black men in prison, than there were that were enslaved before the Civil War. Depending upon what race you are born, your life is pretty much laid out for you. 
How do you get this to stop though? Laws have changed, there's been desegregation in schools, requisite quota of minorities being hired or educated.. yet still the racism goes on. And then there's art. Art can and has changed the world before. Good or bad, art rises above the issues and reveals it's subject and content, bare.

So why is this makeup artist under so much fire, for simply painting a white girl with some color? There's going to be a poll up top, and I'd appreciate your opinions. 

Do you think this makeup artist and model were able to break out of social norms and make a beautiful representation of humanity in many colors in the form of art-- or do you just see racist "black face" like all the rest of it's critics?  http://nyp.st/2rcEM5l