White women's reaction to my hair

[prettyinpurple]

I've always thought gabby, Nia, and Keisha were dark...not medium. I only hear dark skinned people saying these 3 are medium.

When you say dark, I think Djimon or Alex Wek honestly. I'm not dark either, just average brown with golden undertones. But if you think of the range of skintones starting at pretty light-skinned, then Gabby/Nia/Keisha are more mid-toned IMO.

I think they have some uneven skintone on their faces as we all do and they can look darker sometime.

Carry on people.

 

[InchHighPrivateEye]

what i don't get is people proclaiming somebody as dark like they're breaking hearts and righting wrongs.

omg Nia is dark-skinned??? So what does that make meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! *cries*

LMAOOOOO!!

 

[kimpaur]

There's thread in the hair section where women share similar stories to yours, I think it's called "Long hair women, let me live vicariously through you", you should check that out OP cheesecakeavenue

 

[Lucie]

I am so confused.

 

[ChasingBliss]

Just mosied on in her to see why this thread was so long. Plus the title confused me for the forum it's in.

strolling on out....

 

[Cheekychica]

Aw, y'all scared OP away.

 

[runwaydream]

lol cheesecake where you at?

 

[greenandchic]

Mods, cant this be moved?
pebbles, Allandra, Supergirl, honeycomb719, Enchantmt, dontspeakdefeat, SVT

 

[pebbles]

^^Where do you want it moved to?

 

[Briabiggles]

^^Where do you want it moved to?

Thread heaven.

Sent from my iPhone. Excuse the typos!

 

[greenandchic]

^^Where do you want it moved to?

Thread heaven.

Sent from my iPhone. Excuse the typos!

The main hair forum, its not a relationship issue, but I guess it doesn't matter.

 

[AnjelLuvs]

At this point this thread is irrelevant it can be poofed...

 

[greenandchic]

^^
Especially since the OP checked out. I doubt she will come back to make that request.

 

[*CherryPie*]

You could be. I can't see what you look like smart a$$.

lmao I guess I'm dark skinned then

Sent from my Galaxy S3 using LHCF

 

[JeterCrazed]

You could be. I can't see what you look like smart a$$.

What the F*** is going on?!?!?!
Y'all wil'in today!!!

 

[*CherryPie*]

What I don't get is why y'all think its so bad to be dark?? Folks upset about people saying someone is dark. Thats so funny.

what i don't get is people proclaiming somebody as dark like they're breaking hearts and righting wrongs.

omg Nia is dark-skinned??? So what does that make meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! *cries*

 

[Middle]

What I don't get is why y'all think its so bad to be dark?? Folks upset about people saying someone is dark. Thats so funny.

Umm... clearly you didn't get it. That's so funny

 

[*CherryPie*]

Alex and Djimon are VERY dark. Nia, Keisha, and Gabby are just dark.

When you say dark, I think Djimon or Alex Wek honestly. I'm not dark either, just average brown with golden undertones. But if you think of the range of skintones starting at pretty light-skinned, then Gabby/Nia/Keisha are more mid-toned IMO.

I think they have some uneven skintone on their faces as we all do and they can look darker sometime.

Carry on people.

 

[JeterCrazed]

I'm so glad I'm light skinned so I don't have to be continuously classified between smedium and ground coffee. Just put me on the end of the spectrum.

 

[greenandchic]

Its so hard being "regular/medium".

 

[JeterCrazed]

Its so hard being "regular/medium".

Like a damn latte.
Black people can't even let black people just be black.

 

[cocosweet]

Wait...

Are we applying the Paper Bag Standard?

Lighter than paper bag = light

Darker than a paper bag = dark and that includes everyone from Nia Long to Wesley Snipes. No hair splitting about being medium required.


I've read that there are over 3 dozen skin tone variations among black people. Looking at it as a range, neither Gabby U., Nia, or Keyshia are very light or very dark so boom, they're medium.

 

[Whimsy]

How do you even know the woman was staring you down because of your hair?

This was my first thought.

Maybe she was in a rush and you were self-checking-out too slow for her liking.

 

[Allandra]

@Pebbles

I moved it to the hair discussion forum.

Wow, you all can be quite rude.

Yes, you guessed it.

I'm closing his thread.