Originally posted by: Schmmuck
I feel fair is beautiful. Your features truly stand out when you are fair. Brown is also okay, but pure black I don't find beautiful at all.
Originally posted by: Schmmuck
I feel fair is beautiful. Your features truly stand out when you are fair. Brown is also okay, but pure black I don't find beautiful at all.
Originally posted by: springkissed
Really? black is gorgeous, especially completely even toned black skin! and features are features, they will stand out with any and all colors. It's just that brown skin will have spots that are more visible in comparison to whiter skin, thus the only big problem for brown skin is getting rid of those spots/pimples and getting an even tone which can be easily done with right food/right products/right make up. There is absolutely no need for fairness for the features to stand out. In fact, warmth in the skin can make it look gorgeous in comparison to plain white skin. Why else do you think westerners are so obsessed with tanning?
Originally posted by: communion
There was a post about Yami Gautam endorsing fairness creams here and so many were defending her, like "If people wanna become fair, let them! It's their choice to use fairness creams" the ignorance is hilarious.. why do people choose to become fair? Isn't it something to do with why dark skin is seen as undesirable and ugly, associated with class and caste stereotypes 😵
Why do people from different parts of the world have different colored skin? Why do people from the tropics generally have darker skin color that those who live in colder climates? Variations in human skin color are adaptive traits that correlate closely with geography and the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
As early humans moved into hot, open environments in search of food and water, one big challenge was keeping cool. The adaptation that was favored involved an increase in the number of sweat glands on the skin while at the same time reducing the amount of body hair. With less hair, perspiration could evaporate more easily and cool the body more efficiently. But this less-hairy skin was a problem because it was exposed to a very strong sun, especially in lands near the equator. Since strong sun exposure damages the body, the solution was to evolve skin that was permanently dark so as to protect against the sun's more damaging rays.
Melanin, the skin's brown pigment, is a natural sunscreen that protects tropical peoples from the many harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays. UV rays can, for example, strip away folic acid, a nutrient essential to the development of healthy fetuses. Yet when a certain amount of UV rays penetrates the skin, it helps the human body use vitamin D to absorb the calcium necessary for strong bones. This delicate balancing act explains why the peoples that migrated to colder geographic zones with less sunlight developed lighter skin color. As people moved to areas farther from the equator with lower UV levels, natural selection favored lighter skin which allowed UV rays to penetrate and produce essential vitamin D. The darker skin of peoples who lived closer to the equator was important in preventing folate deficiency. Measures of skin reflectance, a way to quantify skin color by measuring the amount of light it reflects, in people around the world support this idea. While UV rays can cause skin cancer, because skin cancer usually affects people after they have had children, it likely had little effect on the evolution of skin color because evolution favors changes that improve reproductive success.
There is also a third factor which affects skin color: coastal peoples who eat diets rich in seafood enjoy this alternate source of vitamin D. That means that some Arctic peoples, such as native peoples of Alaska and Canada, can afford to remain dark-skinned even in low UV areas. In the summer they get high levels of UV rays reflected from the surface of snow and ice, and their dark skin protects them from this reflected light.
Originally posted by: Schmmuck
Beyonce's complexion is fine but beyond that the color hides your features.Pale white is also not that appealing. No wonder they go for tanning. Nothing wrong with that. Just like there is nothing wrong with bleaching.
Originally posted by: springkissed
@bold: I want to copy/paste some pictures here of beautiful black girls with even toned skin color completely black, but don't want to spam. so let's agree to disagree there.And yeah pale white skin is not appealing. Though the whole problem with bleaching is that you are giving into the mindset of white being more beautiful, the better skin color. Isn't that demeaning to darker skinned Indians? Are they not beautiful? In essence, this mindset is rejecting our own brown skin, to try to conform to western beauty standards. In my opinion, skin color does not determine beauty, features do.
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