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My mom is very light-skinned and I'm more of a caramel color, but in the summer sometimes I would get brown and I didn't like it. She also didn't like my sister getting "dark".
I'm not sure what that means. I like my day-to-day color. But when I get too brown it doesn't suit me, or maybe I'm just conditioned to think that it's not a good color.
I think it's beautiful on others though.
one summer I used to jump around from shadow to shadow so I would remain in the shade.
that was fucking weird.
no
no
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:51:56 AM
My mom is very light-skinned and I'm more of a caramel color, but in the summer sometimes I would get brown and I didn't like it. She also didn't like my sister getting "dark".
I'm not sure what that means. I like my day-to-day color. But when I get too brown it doesn't suit me, or maybe I'm just conditioned to think that it's not a good color.
I think it's beautiful on others though.
Some may think it's because you were conditioned to think this way but I feel that EVERYONE should love their skin color and shouldn't feel ashamed of loving it or be considered "conditioned" because they don't want to be darker or lighter.
I love being in the middle. neither Dark or Light.
nope
I love my dark skin as is.
Desiring a change to these things is desiring to be someone you're not.
Yeah
Bleaching rn tbh
dxasdas
Am already light :young:
I'd be lying if I said I didn't back when I was younger and more impressionable.
But I love my skin nows, wouldn't trade it in for anything else :traciandchelle:
No :feelinmyself:
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:51:56 AM
My mom is very light-skinned and I'm more of a caramel color, but in the summer sometimes I would get brown and I didn't like it. She also didn't like my sister getting "dark".
I'm not sure what that means. I like my day-to-day color. But when I get too brown it doesn't suit me, or maybe I'm just conditioned to think that it's not a good color.
I think it's beautiful on others though.
That means when summer hits and u start gettin darker and sometimes its not a good look
Can we be honest without a lashing.
Quote from: Myron on December 29, 2015, 03:09:16 PM
Can we be honest without a lashing.
There's nothing to lash about.
Even if it was your desire it's not really your fault to begin with.
yes.
:omgwatshappening:
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:53:50 AM
one summer I used to jump around from shadow to shadow so I would remain in the shade.
that was fucking weird.
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Is this Thalia? :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
Can't say I have honestly
I was just watching a video about these 2 darker complected gorls from the UK who've experienced black colorism.
It's crazy how the mess that was drilled into our heads here as descendants of house and field niggers has managed to make it overseas.
But something tells me the internet has a lot to do with that.
Mess no I'd look a mess if I was super lightskinned. I like my light caramel mess
I've tanned purposely before. So.... no. lol
Nope
I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj
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Quote from: Nine on December 29, 2015, 03:35:29 PM
Can't say I have honestly
Wish you would brush your teeth honestly.
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:53:50 AM
one summer I used to jump around from shadow to shadow so I would remain in the shade.
that was fucking weird.
:plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
I'm crying
xvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
I can't say I myself wanted to be lighter because I always had good self esteem for the most part; but I was very attracted and almost solely on lighter men and that wasn't right.
I now see the beauty in any and everyone. Our brains can be so warped by the media
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:45:24 PM
I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj
!!! I didn't realize until I was ten or eleven that I would get darker during the summer and I would avoid the sun like the plague
:mmyulost:
I never imagined Christian being light skinned
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:52:33 PM
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:45:24 PM
I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj
!!! I didn't realize until I was ten or eleven that I would get darker during the summer and I would avoid the sun like the plague
:mmyulost:
!!! I hated it and it didn't help that the teachers would keep us outside for like 2 hours :uhh: My mom used to fume. There was a time I perched in the shade with the teachers :kii:
I don't think it looks natural on me. I noticed the same with my brother and dad. We look Indian af when we get darker.
v
well am not but :bvy:
I'm disgusted
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:55:03 PM
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:52:33 PM
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:45:24 PM
I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj
!!! I didn't realize until I was ten or eleven that I would get darker during the summer and I would avoid the sun like the plague
:mmyulost:
!!! I hated it and it didn't help that the teachers would keep us outside for like 2 hours :uhh: My mom used to fume. There was a time I perched in the shade with the teachers :kii:
I don't think it looks natural on me. I noticed the same with my brother and dad. We look Indian af when we get darker.
snddn !!!!
and it didn't help that all the spanish kids used to be like "omg why u getting so darker"
:hmph:
I was 16 and the previous day I had been at an outdoors track meet.
I stayed in the sun for hours.
I got back to school the next day and this soot colored girl goes :fuming: :fuming:
"Omfffffffffffffffff your so dark............what happened? :fuming:
From that experience and a couple others as I got older I realized the power being "light" in the black community had.
So from then on I stay as pale as possible and reap the benefits.
All the guys I date though are black as coal. :wellheythere: :wellheythere: :wellheythere:
If it aint dark, it aint for me ( relationship wise )
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:51:56 AM
My mom is very light-skinned and I'm more of a caramel color, but in the summer sometimes I would get brown and I didn't like it. She also didn't like my sister getting "dark".
I'm not sure what that means. I like my day-to-day color. But when I get too brown it doesn't suit me, or maybe I'm just conditioned to think that it's not a good color.
I think it's beautiful on others though.
I could defiantly relate!!!... but now I'm content I love my skin tone :letsmessfag:
U kn wh... I see where this is going...
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
why dvy and what changed your mind
Well my Mum is really light and so is my my brother so growing up I always felt some type of way about that. I went through a brief phase a couple years ago where I tried fade creams, but I got over it.
:raycharles2urmess:
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
I'm gonna be honest and say I'm not surprised by this.
I've always noticed in your sig there's either a white person, or if they're black, they're light as a fluorescent light bulb. Small things like that speak volumes to me.
Which is why when you made a comment which implied that I permed my hair I was looking like :uhh: :uhh: :uhh: but I didn't say anything crazy to you.
And this is not me judging you, it's just saying that it makes sense. And I appreciate your honesty.
You're gorgeous just the way you are. I'm sure you remember years ago when I was about to ban you for being a newbie with too much lip :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: until I saw your pic :ohwow: you're more than good hun. :cheerup:
wtf
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:08:11 PM
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
why dvy and what changed your mind
Well my Mum is really light and so is my my brother so growing up I always felt some type of way about that. I went through a brief phase a couple years ago where I tried fade creams, but I got over it.
:raycharles2urmess:
I can understand that
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:08:31 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
I'm gonna be honest and say I'm not surprised by this.
I've always noticed in your sig there's either a white person, or if they're black, they're light as a fluorescent light bulb. Small things like that speak volumes to me.
Which is why when you made a comment which implied that I permed my hair I was looking like :uhh: :uhh: :uhh: but I didn't say anything crazy to you.
And this is not me judging you, it's just saying that it makes sense. And I appreciate your honesty.
You're gorgeous just the way you are. I'm sure you remember years ago when I was about to ban you for being a newbie with too much lip :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: until I saw your pic :ohwow: you're more than good hun. :cheerup:
omf
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:08:31 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
I'm gonna be honest and say I'm not surprised by this.
I've always noticed in your sig there's either a white person, or if they're black, they're light as a fluorescent light bulb. Small things like that speak volumes to me.
Which is why when you made a comment which implied that I permed my hair I was looking like :uhh: :uhh: :uhh: but I didn't say anything crazy to you.
And this is not me judging you, it's just saying that it makes sense. And I appreciate your honesty.
You're gorgeous just the way you are. I'm sure you remember years ago when I was about to ban you for being a newbie with too much lip :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: until I saw your pic :ohwow: you're more than good hun. :cheerup:
Uh oh
:everythingok:
What are the uh oh's for? :dead:
I'm not reading him or being rude.
He just admitted that he struggled with colorism and I said that it makes sense.
I didn't take it upon myself to say he did, didn't jump to a conclusion. But the dots just connected themselves.
(http://i47.tinypic.com/2yzen3l.jpg)
Romero, it wasn't a shady post towards you. PLease don't take it that way.
The gorls clearly wanna see a Royal Rumble. :dead:
no
I didn't take offense Afro. lol.
If itt was something I was insecure about I wouldn't even have shared it. :letsmessfag:
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:08:11 PM
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:33:38 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 03:15:15 PM
yes.
why dvy and what changed your mind
Well my Mum is really light and so is my my brother so growing up I always felt some type of way about that. I went through a brief phase a couple years ago where I tried fade creams, but I got over it.
:raycharles2urmess:
I'm glad you got over that, my chocolate Trini adonis :ohwow:
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:21:34 PM
I didn't take offense Afro. lol.
If itt was something I was insecure about I wouldn't even have shared it. :letsmessfag:
:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
Love you. It takes strength to realize there's a problem and that something is wrong.
Not only did you pinpoint it, you corrected it. That's not easy living in a
light and white is right world.
And it's NEVER any of our faults when we go through mess like this.
EVER.
Quote from: Young on December 29, 2015, 03:51:20 PM
I now see the beauty in any and everyone.
(http://parsem.ru/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/34573457.gif)
! Especially in the Caribbean where colorism was a foundation of our society. Trinidad particularly because we have such a diverse cultural mix.
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:27:45 PM
! Especially in the Caribbean where colorism was a foundation of our society. Trinidad particularly because we have such a diverse cultural mix.
isn't GODyana Ali Trini?
omffff :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
u guys are beautiful :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow:
caribbeans >>>> :howfestive: :howfestive: :howfestive:
Come to think of it, GODyana Ali spoke about her struggles within the community as well.
"Oh she's so dark! But she has good hair so its OK lolz"
I was wondering who she was talking about, I thought for sure it sounded like some mess a Jamaican would say
Black Americans don't talk exactly like that. now that you're saying this about Trinidad, it makes sense.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BsEgd0bgwo
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:31:08 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:27:45 PM
! Especially in the Caribbean where colorism was a foundation of our society. Trinidad particularly because we have such a diverse cultural mix.
isn't GODyana Ali Trini?
omffff :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
u guys are beautiful :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow:
caribbeans >>>> :howfestive: :howfestive: :howfestive:
Nia Long and Nicki are Trini too
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:21:34 PM
I didn't take offense Afro. lol.
If itt was something I was insecure about I wouldn't even have shared it. :letsmessfag:
:wub:
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:37:25 PM
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:31:08 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:27:45 PM
! Especially in the Caribbean where colorism was a foundation of our society. Trinidad particularly because we have such a diverse cultural mix.
isn't GODyana Ali Trini?
omffff :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
u guys are beautiful :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow:
caribbeans >>>> :howfestive: :howfestive: :howfestive:
Nia Long and Nicki are Trini too
omffff :stressed: :stressed:
Nia >>>>>
the gorl can chop ha hair awf and still give u a NASTY mug. :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/freshprince/images/5/5c/F4516cd25344fe720dde77051d02260b_600x400.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150623200348)
Nia is the most beautiful actress I have ever seen
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:37:25 PM
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:31:08 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh. on December 29, 2015, 04:27:45 PM
! Especially in the Caribbean where colorism was a foundation of our society. Trinidad particularly because we have such a diverse cultural mix.
isn't GODyana Ali Trini?
omffff :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
u guys are beautiful :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow: :ohwow:
caribbeans >>>> :howfestive: :howfestive: :howfestive:
Nicki is Trini too
:feelinmyself:
I have to agree, I can't really think of someone prettier off the top of my head. :dead:
she's just so damn sexy. and it's not even "ooh! clothes off guys look at my boobs" sexy...
it's hey guys, close up of my mug, and still sa-deuce u, kinda sexy.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Sa_Deuce.jpg)
Hhhhuuyy even Jay Z used to be on her tits before he got into yonka
nnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:43:38 PM
I have to agree, I can't really think of someone prettier off the top of my head. :dead:
she's just so damn sexy. and it's not even "ooh! clothes off guys look at my boobs" sexy...
it's hey guys, close up of my mug, and still sa-deuce u, kinda sexy.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Sa_Deuce.jpg)
knnnmmmnnnmmm
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ln'kb; j
I used to want skin like hers
All coppery and bronzed
:stressed:
Quote from: DidYouKnowVersace? on December 29, 2015, 04:48:39 PM
I used to want skin like hers
All coppery and bronzed
:stressed:
ur skin is gorg hun as is
lookin like a younger version of my imaginary husband lolz :stressed:
his voice :stressed:
god if u send me a copy of him ill never complain again :loose2when: :loose2when:
never even thought about it growing up, honestly.
Quote from: Herbie on December 29, 2015, 04:34:08 PM
Come to think of it, GODyana Ali spoke about her struggles within the community as well.
"Oh she's so dark! But she has good hair so its OK lolz"
I was wondering who she was talking about, I thought for sure it sounded like some mess a Jamaican would say
Black Americans don't talk exactly like that. now that you're saying this about Trinidad, it makes sense.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BsEgd0bgwo
this backhanded compliment he gave her when the interview started :uhh: "wow is there a special technique to get ur hair like that? Lolz"
I've gotten that before too. "Ur gorgeous for a darker guy"
"I usually don't go for darker guys but wow". :uhh: wtf
Afro do you consider Nia Long darkskinned too? Serious question.
VLAD is so shady. :dead:
I don't think he was shading her though really when he asked about her technique.
It was more so of asking her if she has any tips she'd like to offer. IMO.
A lot of people ask questions about hair which they use to comfortably transition into such a touchy conversation.
Like "what do you use in your hair"? etc. Some of it is shade/ignorant assumptions, but some people honestly want to know how another person maintains their hair when it looks healthy.
Quote from: Marilyn on December 29, 2015, 05:19:17 PM
Afro do you consider Nia Long darkskinned too? Serious question.
Yes.
:young:
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:55:03 PM
Quote from: ANIMMAI on December 29, 2015, 03:52:33 PM
Quote from: imaan. on December 29, 2015, 03:45:24 PM
I'm naturally really light but I remember being a bit darker as a kid from playing outside all the time and not liking it fjjj
!!! I didn't realize until I was ten or eleven that I would get darker during the summer and I would avoid the sun like the plague
:mmyulost:
There was a time I perched in the shade with the teachers :kii:
NXNZNXNZN
I used to do that. But because I was a fag :-(
Some of the women in my family were bleachers, especially my aunts and cousins
Growing up and seeing them one Xmas dark and the next Xmas looking yellow used to freak me out, some used to look grey as fuck
My dad is Kenyan and my mom is a caramel mess
So my siblings and I all came out 3 different tones
Then my granny and aunts and uncles are different shades
So I always saw black people as a rainbow.
My parents never raised us with strange complexes. Thank god. Cause I know that can be a huge influence how people come up.
So, who I am, was never questioned (outside of my sexuality)
Thankfully. We all have insecurities but something like color or physical appearance being one has to be a killer. Because it ain't fcking changing.
I did use to have a little too much fun with the instagram filters but really, I'm fine with my color. Now that my face is smoother & the bags under my eyes are gone I'm good. :dead:
Now if only I had a butt. :'(
I always found it odd how African Americans & Afro Latinos are classed as the self haters(which there are alot of due to us being minorities), but there's more of an abundance of bleaching in African & West Indian countries where blacks are the majority..
And fcking Asians
And they don't even use their own
At least most black people will date their own kind
Right, they're probably worse than Africans and African Americans
But the Nigerians, Congolese and Jamaicans take the cake when it comes to bleaching :dead:
I can agree with being raised a certain way.
My grandmother raised me and my sisters to be unconcerned with material things, or petty things like skin tone, race, etc.
It was good and bad in some ways...Good because I wasn't raised by someone who was color struck, etc. bad because I think I had to find a lot of things on my own....Tense racial relations being one of them. I honestly was in a bubble which exclusively included a private school, church and home. :dead: :dead: :dead: Which is why it was so hard to understand why so many black people were so "angry" down here.
I had to find out many things on my own, even my own ethnic identity. Which didn't even matter to me much (again being raised the way I was), until other people started questioning it. Having a black female barber PULL at the roots of your head to examine them, only to confirm there wasn't a perm in my head, after I already told her there wasn't one. Then questioning my ethnic makeup. That's when I realized that my own people will single me out and make me feel uncomfortable, and insult me. Up until then, I never felt different. I just wasn't raised that way.
My grandmother didn't sit down and play with our hair as youngsters or talk about her ethnic makeup and ancestry. :dead: Nor did she teach us the difference between light, caramel, mocha light with two milks, espresso..and all that mess. She was mostly concerned with us doing well in school, being well groomed and getting our butts to Sunday School every weekend. :dead: :dead: And honestly, even though part of me wishes she had shared just a little more, or took the time to know a little more, I cannot blame her.
I'm foreign
No! I remember swimming with friends when I was a teen, I put some sun tan lotion on and they said why would you want to get darker?
I was like ehhhh :hmph:
Put it on anyway :stressed:
Quote from: DidYouKnowVersace? on December 29, 2015, 05:41:34 PM
Some of the women in my family were bleachers, especially my aunts and cousins
Growing up and seeing them one Xmas dark and the next Xmas looking yellow used to freak me out, some used to look grey as fuck
Wtf
Quote from: DidYouKnowVersace? on December 29, 2015, 05:41:34 PM
Some of the women in my family were bleachers, especially my aunts and cousins
Growing up and seeing them one Xmas dark and the next Xmas looking yellow used to freak me out, some used to look grey as fuck
Sad.
Quote from: MΛΥDΛΥ on December 29, 2015, 03:32:11 PM
Quote from: hewritez on December 29, 2015, 11:53:50 AM
one summer I used to jump around from shadow to shadow so I would remain in the shade.
that was fucking weird.
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Is this Thalia? :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
ScxC
Ghhhhhhh I miss her
Thalia >