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The new magazine ads for Feria hair colour feature in the September issues of Elle, Allure and Essence in the US, and show the pop star with a noticably lighter skin tone.

Gossip website TMZ compared the ad with another photo of Beyonce showing her with noticeably darker skin tones.

It ran a poll alongside the comparison asking, 'Is the ad a slap to blacks?'

But L'Oreal hit back saying: "We highly value our relationship with Ms. Knowles.

"It is categorically untrue that L'Oreal Paris altered Ms. Knowles' features or skin tone in the campaign for Feria hair color," the Paris-based company said in a statement sent to the Associated Press through the singer's representative.

Read more in the New York Post

The ad is in the current edition of Elle magazine.

L'Oreal, the maker of Garnier hair care and Lancome cosmetics, is the world's largest cosmetics maker.

A representative for Beyonce said the singer would have no comment beyond L'Oreal's statement.

Beyonce has been a spokeswoman for L'Oreal since 2001.

"When we came back on the bus... he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," Mr Caton said.

The attacker ran at them, Mr Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut to prevent him getting out.

"He calmly walks up to the front [of the bus] with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Mr Caton said.

"There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something," he added. 

          

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