"<p>Kim Kardashian's contour kits may have sold out in mere minutes, but the brand was barely off the ground before being embroiled in a controversy thanks to Kim's team darkening her skin tone in promotional images. She was&nbsp;<a href=""http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/news/a27722/kim-kardashian-blackface-accusations/"">accused of blackface</a>, and ended up changing the images and making a statement to the&nbsp;<a href=""https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/fashion/kim-kardashian-beauty-line-blackface-allegations.html""><em data-redactor-tag=""em"" data-verified=""redactor"">New York Times</em></a>:&nbsp;""I would obviously never want to offend anyone. I used an amazing photographer and a team of people. I was really tan when we shot the images, and it might be that the contrast was off. But I showed the image to many people, to many in the business. No one brought that to our attention. No one mentioned it. Of course, I have the utmost respect for why people might feel the way they did. But we made the necessary changes to that photo and the rest of the photos. We saw the problem, and we adapted and changed right away. Definitely I have learned from it.""</p>"
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