Comments on: Brown Skin Is Beautiful Skin

By: sunmom

sunmom — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:23:30 +0000

hi karen! i'm a Filipina with brown skin too! i'm surprised it took an entry like this for me to leave a comment as i've been reading your blog for several days now. i'm also a beauty enthusiast but never really got that part of me into play because i had a very limiting environment. it is only now that i have my own job and family that i was able to start practicing make-up and stuff. i initially thought it would be an innate thing until my eyeshadow experiments didn't turn out the way i wanted them to. it's from you i got the idea of putting eyeshadow on almond/asian eyes eyes. that's why i keep backtracking 'til i get to your very first entry just to check out your fotd's even though they might be out of season. well, i'm off topic, but this is just to let you know how inspiring you are for someone like me. anyway, i'm a tech support rep here in the Philippines for a US company and i get a lot of discrimination when my customers find out i'm from here. it's just too sad that people can really look at unimportant stuff to measure another person. but as long as we know we're beautiful, unique and talented, it radiates and that's all that matters...More power to your site!sunmom´s last blog post..The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems

By: Diva Style

Diva Style — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:25:34 +0000

Oh Karen, you're a woman after my own heart! When people make disparaging comments concerning skin color or hair texture or anything of a racist or predjudice nature, I am the first to open my mouth and speak out! People need to understand that it's NOT okay to degrade someone else because their beauty is underappreciated by society and not the "status quo" so to speak. Right now, I am actually finishing up a book entitled, "Don't Play in the Sun" about the struggles of the Black race when it comes to colorism, which is quintessentially when some people in the same race downgrade each other due to certain physical attributes and/or think they are superior based on their skin tone, features, etc. Sad but true. We have to put a stop to this! It is killing the self-esteem of some children and adults.Diva Style´s last blog post..Makeup Mondays~

By: Gerry

Gerry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:52:47 +0000

Karen thanks for your post. I am of mixed blood, anglo indian and maltese italian (i know ethnically ambiguous right!) But I live in Australia. Growing up I was teased. I once had a girl tell me that a hispanic boy in my class had beautiful skin, like chocolate but that I was a “blackie”. I was 7 years old! And the boy had the same colour skin as I did, maybe even darker. I couldnt understand her cruelness. Especially because she was teased by other children for being overweight, but i was always nice to her. Until that day anyway. When I was 13 I was teased by mean boys in my year, they called me a terrorist. (it was 2001), the ignorance was infuriating and made me selfconcious of my appearance.
But now I am 20, and I believe things are changing. Now I take pride in my brown skin. My fair friends are always commenting how they wish they could get a tan like my year long one lol. I think its important to realise that you can be beautiful no matter what colour you are. Fair is beautiful, Black is beautiful, Asian skin is beautiful, Brown is beautiful. Beauty is defined by a person, who they are and what they do aswell how they look. Its when people discriminate that they are not beautiful.

Oh and Valerie, i have struggled to find a right match for my skin colour since I started wearing make up! Congratulations on your company. Link me up hun )

By: Trina

Trina — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:36:33 +0000

Dark brown skin here, and always has been considered sorta inferior by our fellow Pinoys and Pinays for my color, especially when contrasted with our prized mestizas. Well, when I took a plane and studied abroad, the very first Spanish woman (from Madrid, not from Cebu) I ever met at university wanted to know where I got my “tan” so she could go there, too. Ironic, isn’t it.

By: sammie

sammie — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:16:33 +0000

Hey girl!
Yeah, I can totally sympathise with you- I am mixed asian and am quite brown with my NC 35 skin. People were always like “Why are you so brown?” or whatever, and let me tell you, it REALLY got me. I mean, what sort of question is that anyway? (I could have asked “why are you so stupid?!”, but politeness dictates otherwise.)
It doesn’t matter to me so much now because I’m older now (aw, man!) but as a kid…boy it is NOT what you want to hear
Thanks for sharing this, nice to know its not just me!
=)