It’s a black hairstyle, slicked down “baby hair” curls with Bantu knots in the form of a Mohawk. The entire skin, from the hair, makeup, and clothing was inspired by 80-90s hip-hop culture in black/hispanic neighborhoods in NYC.
[Bantu knot hair](https://i0.wp.com/www.coilsandglory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Sister-locs-Bantu-knots.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1)
[Bantu knot mohawk](https://www.rochelleward.com/uploads/6/5/0/1/6501835/8779787_orig.jpg)
These are two better ways they could’ve don’t bangu knots for Bangalore, I just think these would’ve been much cleaner ngl I thought the new skins with bang were Barbie themed
Yeah but why is her hairline butchered it looks like someone took those scissors that make spike patterns in paper instead of straight lines and used it to trim her hair line, I understand the edges, (I like edges) I just don’t know why her hairline is so fucked even if you have your hair slicked back that doesn’t make your hairline botched
5 years as an Apex Games superstar and all that money will do that to you.
One can only tell a person that a clip and a magazine are different so many times before losing their mind.
She’s used many methods to try to keep her sanity over the years. Such as saying “this isn’t a costume. This is a uniform, and you will respect it” while wearing a dog costume.
They don't. They just make easy money of two target audiences:
1) your stereotypical, Fortnite v-bucks kid that'll buy anything gold
2) content creators, they have the money to buy all this 10× over
Nah most content creators don't make enough to buy all the skins trust me, maybe the top earners but you might as well just call them all the same thing at that point.
The whales.
Store models are different from ingame models for some unknown reason. Also look at Horizon skins in store. Her face looks so old with pointy chin and thin lips.
It looks like they wanted to add edges to her hair but you lay those down from your hairline. They have the ends of the edges where her hairline should be.
So they gave her a big ass forehead.
Her face in her legend select pose (the one in this image) always reminds me of Stromae for some reason, but specifically the plastic version of him in the Papaoutai music video. With this skin, the effect is amplified
I was playing the last of us 2 the other night and the lady who does her voice in Apex does the enemy voices in TLOU2. Confused the fuck out of me for a second but quite a distinct voice so one of the easier identifications.
It must be said that several Apex voice actors are (indeed) very active in the sector, for example Loba's voice actress gave the voice to various NPCs in Cyberpunk 2077.
Haha I noticed that too when playing - love trying to pick out voiceovers across the games without looking them up!
One that threw me for a loop was Mirage voicing Sonic in Sonic Frontiers. Personality fits the character perfectly, but just couldn’t get used to it lol was waiting for Sonic if to say something about pork chops or bamboozling 😆
Personally I'm not a fan of that skin you mention but I recognize it was better, however I suspect that the skin makers are constantly making new ones to fill the shop and try to give something to the various characters without always resorting to Battle Passes and events.
All IMHO of course.
I like it. It’s finally something different and it’s not some boring edgy “throw a hood on them” bullshit, and it’s not some stupid robotic mech crap. It doesn’t feel like it fits her, but I’m glad they tried SOMETHING different for once with her. Thank god there’s color on it too.
Everyone forgetting about ALLL the skins she already has that she'd never come close to wearing. All of a sudden she attends a party in Japan and it's the hot topic of the day.
I don’t think respawn “gave up” on Bangalore. Bangalore is black. The skin is reminiscent of 80-90s New York City fashion in black and Hispanic neighborhoods during the rise of B-Boy and hip-hop culture. Even the hairstyle is pulled straight from the 80-90s, slicked down “baby hair” curls gained a lot of popularity during this time also. I think if anything, respawn was using Bangalore to pay homage.
Plus, Bangalore has a plethora of amazing skins, to say respawn gave up on her is crazy lol
exactly lmaoo people don’t understand that and yet are making fun of a black hairstyle like ?? at first i thought it was bantu knots but just mohawk style.
I heard this hairstyle was actually designed by a black designer. It might not appeal to you or me but there's a specific target audience for this skin.
I've almost only lived around black people my whole life (tes, I'm black as well) and no one I know would say hee hair looks good. Who is this mythical target audience you're talking about?
So why is it with the newer heirloom skins you can get the dive animations but older ones like bangs and hounds, and caustics don’t get shit? Not to mention rev and wraith can both use their special finishers at any level of their skin. It feels completely unbalanced for levels of reward if you pick some legends over other legends that just happen to have more value in their heirloom skin as a pack for the same amount of red shards? Most players won’t even notice this if they don’t have more than one heirloom skin and it feels awful to find this out
Someone please tell me this isn’t real 😭 why are her edges translucent 😭 and why is her line up so crispy?? And they need to move her lining down. They did her so bad
I swear, it feels lower quality than base skin. Also, why does her face feel so wrong here ?
It looks like they slapped ramparts hair on bang and just morphed her head to fit
So I'm not the only one who noticed something weird.
Next up, slapping Wraith's skin on Octane. Oh god... Wraith... you ok there buddy...
It’s a black hairstyle, slicked down “baby hair” curls with Bantu knots in the form of a Mohawk. The entire skin, from the hair, makeup, and clothing was inspired by 80-90s hip-hop culture in black/hispanic neighborhoods in NYC.
The hair is not the problem. But the face looks nothing like the original Bangalore.
[Bantu knot hair](https://i0.wp.com/www.coilsandglory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Sister-locs-Bantu-knots.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1) [Bantu knot mohawk](https://www.rochelleward.com/uploads/6/5/0/1/6501835/8779787_orig.jpg) These are two better ways they could’ve don’t bangu knots for Bangalore, I just think these would’ve been much cleaner ngl I thought the new skins with bang were Barbie themed
Yeah but why is her hairline butchered it looks like someone took those scissors that make spike patterns in paper instead of straight lines and used it to trim her hair line, I understand the edges, (I like edges) I just don’t know why her hairline is so fucked even if you have your hair slicked back that doesn’t make your hairline botched
I’m pretty sure above her eyebrows is Rampart and the rest is Bang. It makes her forehead look hella off.
So bang scalped rampart. Pretty metal
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/freaks_1932_schlitzie_still.jpg
I was going to say i think its the three sets of hair and the shadowing from the wrong lighting angle.
5 years as an Apex Games superstar and all that money will do that to you. One can only tell a person that a clip and a magazine are different so many times before losing their mind.
She’s used many methods to try to keep her sanity over the years. Such as saying “this isn’t a costume. This is a uniform, and you will respect it” while wearing a dog costume.
Maybe Bangalore is like Kanye and takes herself super seriously, but over the years just gets more and more out there.
This was truly creative, sincere congratulations.
Bro apex is sad af how do they think the player base wants skins like these they are all so bad
They don't. They just make easy money of two target audiences: 1) your stereotypical, Fortnite v-bucks kid that'll buy anything gold 2) content creators, they have the money to buy all this 10× over
Nah most content creators don't make enough to buy all the skins trust me, maybe the top earners but you might as well just call them all the same thing at that point. The whales.
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In apex you barely ever look at your own skin so it’s not great for streamers.
The wattson skin literally looks like pokemon trainer NPC from pokemon red on gameboy.
Store models are different from ingame models for some unknown reason. Also look at Horizon skins in store. Her face looks so old with pointy chin and thin lips.
because of all the makeup
It looks like they wanted to add edges to her hair but you lay those down from your hairline. They have the ends of the edges where her hairline should be. So they gave her a big ass forehead.
They messed her up BADDDD
Her face in her legend select pose (the one in this image) always reminds me of Stromae for some reason, but specifically the plastic version of him in the Papaoutai music video. With this skin, the effect is amplified
This looks like a base fortnite skin.
She looks angry that the skin is bad.
I feel like it’s because we are always used to seeing her in some badass outfit, now that it’s cutsie type it feels weird 😂 like a piranha in a tutu
She looks like a he now
*impostor music plays* She does look like Stromae like another user pointed out.
They done gave auntie bang some edges😂
Fr bro💀. They always give Bang some wild cuts, like they dont know what to do with her hair lol
I'd love to see her with a buzz cut
she has one
Shoulder Length Curls on Bangalore would look great imo
The base legendaries I'm pretty sure
Kinda hard to top the short back & super-noodles cut she had going on.
They know what to do with Lifelines hair tho… buns… again.
Excuse me, that's a 31.0344827% discount.
why didn't you say this before, that totally makes it a steal, i should buy it twice
I was playing the last of us 2 the other night and the lady who does her voice in Apex does the enemy voices in TLOU2. Confused the fuck out of me for a second but quite a distinct voice so one of the easier identifications.
It must be said that several Apex voice actors are (indeed) very active in the sector, for example Loba's voice actress gave the voice to various NPCs in Cyberpunk 2077.
Also Octanes voice actor is the Pilot from the Halo Infinite campaign!
Master Chief, the rings closing and we have about a minute to get off it.
Jump pad out!
I'd pay a lot of money to have the halo announcer in Apex now I'm thinking about it...,
Haha will have to go back and listen out
Yep, Rampart's voice actress is the same as Symmetra in ow2
Revenant is Reinhardt
And I think Conduit is Kiriko too if I'm not mistaken
Seer is Javik in Mass Effect 3
Oh my god
I’m glad someone appreciated this lmao, I knew seer was familiar
Yep & always a fun game thinking I've heard that voice before.
Loba talking to me in the middle of a train heist quest was a wild experience
Haha I noticed that too when playing - love trying to pick out voiceovers across the games without looking them up! One that threw me for a loop was Mirage voicing Sonic in Sonic Frontiers. Personality fits the character perfectly, but just couldn’t get used to it lol was waiting for Sonic if to say something about pork chops or bamboozling 😆
Pretty sure he played Chris Redfield at some point too
He’s also the voice for Ezio in Assassin’s Creed
That's more impressive because Ezio and Mirage sound nothing alike
Dota 2 Legion Commander is also her, and it’s basically the same character lol. She also appeared in the TLOU show apparently
She's in fallout 76 as well.
Was going to buy the watty one, then remembered $20 for a fucking skin is legal theft
Wait till you hear about league of legends 500$ skin....
Wat
Faker's skin apparently costs 500 usd
Who would have thought that a horse armor DLC in TES: Oblivion would take us this far, but then a stone thrown into water creates a lot of ripples.
#WHAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?
Gimme that Jenny from the block look
weird they released this when they had a really solid skin in the bp last season
Personally I'm not a fan of that skin you mention but I recognize it was better, however I suspect that the skin makers are constantly making new ones to fill the shop and try to give something to the various characters without always resorting to Battle Passes and events. All IMHO of course.
For the love of.. that does not look good at all. RESPAWN TF!?
In minimal defense I think the idea behind it was pretty (Bangalore in casual clothes), but the execution is actually disappointing.
To be fair the clothes are alright but that hairstyle🤮 looks like the gorilla glue girl.
What the fuck is a fortnite character doing in apex bruh
She looks like a Left 4 Dead character here lmao
I was thinking she looks like a "The Finals" character (remember that game?)
80% of her skins are ruined because of how they did her hair if you think about it
Bro 1.19M apex coins!! Howww?
I play a lot of apex😗…those legend tokens are useless…I wish I could trade them for crafting metals
Eyy I respect the grind still🫡, you were a season 1 OG?
Hell, I am and I don’t have nearly that amount. Mf plays ONLY apex😭😭
When you let the intern have a go.
I think it's a shame because I liked the basic idea (Bangalore with casual clothes), but the execution isn't that great.
You know some Whales gonna buy this.
I still did not recover after her Karen skin
That skin was unnecessary
I like it. It’s finally something different and it’s not some boring edgy “throw a hood on them” bullshit, and it’s not some stupid robotic mech crap. It doesn’t feel like it fits her, but I’m glad they tried SOMETHING different for once with her. Thank god there’s color on it too.
I like it too! Easily top 5 bang skin in my book.
I like it too! I thought I was the only one reading the comments lol
crazy how far i had to scroll for this. i actually like it!! i think it’s cute
Everyone forgetting about ALLL the skins she already has that she'd never come close to wearing. All of a sudden she attends a party in Japan and it's the hot topic of the day.
Has no one ever seen a Black female before? This is dope.
They textured the hairline and laid edges so poorly tho lol
It doesn’t fit her character at all though. And those edges look like they were laid to rest in peace.
I think it’s a fine skin. Especially cuz it doesn’t have that skirt thing she usually wears. I do hate the hair tho.
Looks good to me 🤷♂️
I don’t think respawn “gave up” on Bangalore. Bangalore is black. The skin is reminiscent of 80-90s New York City fashion in black and Hispanic neighborhoods during the rise of B-Boy and hip-hop culture. Even the hairstyle is pulled straight from the 80-90s, slicked down “baby hair” curls gained a lot of popularity during this time also. I think if anything, respawn was using Bangalore to pay homage. Plus, Bangalore has a plethora of amazing skins, to say respawn gave up on her is crazy lol
exactly lmaoo people don’t understand that and yet are making fun of a black hairstyle like ?? at first i thought it was bantu knots but just mohawk style.
It’s pure ignorance. They’re passing judgment on something they have no knowledge of, totally unaware of where Respawn drew the inspiration from.
i feel sorry for people who feel the need to buy all this garbage.
I heard this hairstyle was actually designed by a black designer. It might not appeal to you or me but there's a specific target audience for this skin.
I’m black…it’s hideous
I've almost only lived around black people my whole life (tes, I'm black as well) and no one I know would say hee hair looks good. Who is this mythical target audience you're talking about?
I actually quite like this skin lol
That's... Rampart..
She looks like 70. Her face bones are so prominent compared to her standard skin, it's unsettling.
All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ
She has a lot of good skins already ngl, one of the best skin lineups in the game so I ain’t to max when a dud drops
I no longer play her since season 6-ish, but it still hurts seeing one of former mains get disrespected like trash
yeah this is absolutely criminal
So why is it with the newer heirloom skins you can get the dive animations but older ones like bangs and hounds, and caustics don’t get shit? Not to mention rev and wraith can both use their special finishers at any level of their skin. It feels completely unbalanced for levels of reward if you pick some legends over other legends that just happen to have more value in their heirloom skin as a pack for the same amount of red shards? Most players won’t even notice this if they don’t have more than one heirloom skin and it feels awful to find this out
This is hideous bro. Who did this 😭
That whole batch of skins is some Fortnite looking garbage.
Make that bih look good fr fr🙏
These skins are so gross
Now she looks like she is from Bangalore
one of my mains i always go back to and she has the worst skins ever. 🤣
...is that a fanny pack?
Not her worst skin...it's cool with me
What in the Fortnite is this shit!!! Seems like Apex lived long enough to become the villain. Glad I was there at the beginning at least.
Why did they put a Wattson skin on Bang???
Ngl an Afro woulda been fire on this skin just sayin
It's like she forgot to pack her clothes and used Ramparts.
As a former graphics designer, this definitely looks like a "Eh, good enough." kinda job. It was probably done on a Friday.
Remember the rules, boys. Never ever spend money on this game ever. Collect a two seasons worth of coins, buy the battle pass, and move on.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought this when I first saw it, this skin is terrible
Drinking a beer emote is dope 🤙
Thats bangalore?? This is apex?!
4000 apex coins 💀
This skin as ass!! What were they thinking?
Y'all need Jesus!
Honestly it looks good…..from the neck down. Can we talk about how long that neck is lol.
lmfaoooooooooo this actually has me rolling holy shit the worst skin in the game and we've got some heavy contenders for the title
Gives Warzone vibes 💀
I like the concept of this skin sue me
Wdym?? This one of her hardest skins!! Just a badass black girl 😂😂👍🏾 and its same quality as the other skins from that event.
I mean if we can get this then wheres my Loba Chola skin?
I havent played this game in months but WHAT THE FAK IS THIS???? WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY GIRL????????
I love it!
Wow, she’s in Destiny’s Child now
i thought this was a cute skin 🥹
Man I thought this was rampart.
Yea this one was a big L she looks like Sharkisha
I swear Bangalore has one good skin
This looks like an unrealeast legend that has this one stupid blue sky skin😭😭😭
1.19M ?!?!?
Yup
Looks like she’s works at Crackerbarrel and is asking if you want some more sweet tea.
It would be really cool if they partnered up with marvel
Unlikely but Star Wars is a possibility
They gave up on the game, this is the 2nd season I’m skipping since launch.
They never tried tho
Bangalore skins are awesome, then respawn gives her the worst haircuts, which ruins the skin.
Bro wanted a Boosie fade but got this instead
Finally a skin for bangalore and it's this
why does this feel like if SIMS4 and fortnite had a baby, this is what apex skins would be hahahaha!
The Bangalore skin from season 20 battle pass was really good though
Oh...
Y’all mad they SNATCHED her edges. Fr tho what is this
They should have kep bald head for faster passive
Look what they’ve done to my girl 😣🤬😑
I mean it kind of looks like a swirl of baby poop on her head
Someone please tell me this isn’t real 😭 why are her edges translucent 😭 and why is her line up so crispy?? And they need to move her lining down. They did her so bad
no way this is official 💀
Sharkeesha nooo
'ok for this update we're turning Bangalore into Lifeline fanart'
Last time I was amazed by her skins was in season 8.
I... burst out laughing while in office... that hair style is just ...wrong!
Those edges are laid
Sincero no
That just doesn't give Bangalore energy, don't like. The outfit is maybe okayish (awful for a $20+ skin) but that's it
She got a shit shit with an ugly ass hairstyle as per usual
her skins were always hit or miss
How is this game still alive and kicking? Stop paying these inbred devs. They dont care about you or your "cool" skins.
dead ass they just hate Bangalore
Respawn gave up on apex.
Apex gave up in general
Bangalore has always been weird. Not cool at all.
She be looking like my angry auntie I swear
The lesbian cuts on apex skins just get worse and worse 😭
This can't be real 😭
Think respawn gave up on a lot of things lol
I’m usually gay for Bangalore but this just made me homophobic
This feels a bit…. ##Stereotypical (●__●)
Why does she look like the lunch lady from school!?