Dark is Beautiful is an awareness campaign that seeks to draw attention to the
unjust effects of skin color bias and also celebrates the beauty and
diversity of all skin tones.
I came across this campaign and when I was surfing as the concept Dark is
beautiful made me more curious, I kept looking into it further and so I decided
to say my story on Dark is Beautiful.
Me myself like most of the south Asians is brown skinned person, I have also
faced the same things every browned/dark skinned person face,
Haha !! Dark people themselves say she is beautiful but unfortunately she is
dark, she would look great if she was fairer.
I had my two sisters who was fair and I was youngest unfair looking girl in my
family so some people says she has nice features than her sisters, but blah
blah blah.
Most people who loved me, brothers sisters and friends, the close ones calls me
Karupi and blacky, when I moved from my family to higher studies my sister
named our new dog blacky which is a dog name and told me, I miss u so I name
our dog blacky *wink*
These are few scenarios I came across when I read the Dark Is Beautiful
Campaign, which of course every darker complex person in south Asia specifically
faces.
Let me get to the point, I came across people misunderstanding this campaign
comment are you
trying to say fair skinned people aren't beautiful, let me get this fact
straight this campaign is to create awareness to young minds with darker complexion
that they are beautiful, see if you look at south Asia it’s the gene and the
hot sun responsible for our skin color we have been born in a way
that we can adapt to nature.
Why should darker skinned girl think that she is not beautiful is my question??
Now and always it is very common that everyone thinks fair skin is
attractive, well I should say at least in south Asia, for example: Let me take
Tamil film industry, In Tamil film industry when we look at the most successful
heroines apart from Sridevi, Trisha who are themselves Tamil with fair skin,
most heroines are brought to Tamil industry from North India as they are fairer
and beautiful, I do know when you wear a beautiful dress on a light skinned
girl she will look like a doll, as for us most of us have seen dolls, Barbie
dolls which are white or lighter color, which are sold most, sold most only
lighter color dolls wear manufactured. I am a south Asia and only 1 out of the
10 woman I see in my community is fair rest 9 are dark.
I don’t see a point in directors making a fair woman to darker apart from her
versatility in acting which again I feel that they can find woman who are
talented in darker complexion.
Today’s young girls maybe depressed just my looking at some lame movies, where
the guy falls in love with the girl who is fair even if the girl is so much of
a drama queen and not for the darker friend next to her, I have never seen a
movie till date casting a heroine’s friend prettier than the heroine, see
people should basically show grow up and understand the difference between
reality and movies.
I would like to put this out as a challenge to the producers and directors out
there to cast a girl who is well talented and who is 9/10 woman of your
community, dress her well and release the movie… I mean seriously there some
ridiculous movies where woman other than the pretty heroine dresses like clown
without any sense of dressing.
I would seriously blame it on our immature community and the film industry as
the reason why darker skinned woman feel insecure, yes movies and TV commercials says only white skin can sell, who said that dark skin is not sexy
or not hot.
One thing these young girls should understand that woman on TV were not born as
that perfect pretty lady she is, why just woman even man, no one is flawless
everyone is full of flaws it’s just that there is a lot of bleaching, waxing,
pedicure, manicure, makeup and PHOTOSHOP behind the beauty which is screen.
For me confidence is what makes a woman beautiful, I did think that if
Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri had participated in India she wouldn't have
won, no I was wrong if she had participated in Miss India she would have
definitely won the contest, the confidence she had when she walked with the
bikini I got goose bumps. It’s not about you being dark or fair it’s all about
how you carry yourself, how your present yourself that over takes one
personality too in my point, it’s about your confidence.
Not every woman who is fair looks beautiful on the eyes of man, and not every
man who is fair and tall attracts woman. It’s the way a person carries
herself/himself is what matters and that my point of view.
I highly recommend the directors to let darker woman a very south Indian walk
with mini skirt and dance with confidence of course dressed well and not like a
clown, and see if she is admired by man.
I would say now it’s not what saree you wear; it’s how sexy and hot you wear
it.
It’s not about dark woman/man or fair woman/man it’s how the woman/man is
presented, mostly people with darker complexion are dress in a way that they
will look bad while highlighting the fair complex person.
I would say with the immaturity of this community fair people are on the
limelight, I basically feel that dark is beautiful campaign should bring out
the confidence in today’s woman/man to stand up and speak for themselves and
present them.
No one was born to feel insecure in this world, maybe these communities made
you feel insecure but you can’t continue to be so,
You should stand up for yourself,
Trust yourself,
Believe that you worth more and what others say don’t matter,
Feel more confidence and believe that you are an able being.
Never have I ever felt sad to be born as a brown skinned girl in my life.
You life is in your hands and you decide if you want lose your confidence and
lose yourself on what others think of, of who you are and what you look. Or
just grow up and believe in yourself.
Confidence is Beautiful.
Dark is Beautiful is an awareness campaign that seeks to draw attention to the unjust effects of skin color bias and also celebrates the beauty and diversity of all skin tones.
I came across this campaign and when I was surfing as the concept Dark is beautiful made me more curious, I kept looking into it further and so I decided to say my story on Dark is Beautiful.
Me myself like most of the south Asians is brown skinned person, I have also faced the same things every browned/dark skinned person face,
Haha !! Dark people themselves say she is beautiful but unfortunately she is dark, she would look great if she was fairer.
I had my two sisters who was fair and I was youngest unfair looking girl in my family so some people says she has nice features than her sisters, but blah blah blah.
Most people who loved me, brothers sisters and friends, the close ones calls me Karupi and blacky, when I moved from my family to higher studies my sister named our new dog blacky which is a dog name and told me, I miss u so I name our dog blacky *wink*
These are few scenarios I came across when I read the Dark Is Beautiful Campaign, which of course every darker complex person in south Asia specifically faces.
Let me get to the point, I came across people misunderstanding this campaign comment are you
trying to say fair skinned people aren't beautiful, let me get this fact straight this campaign is to create awareness to young minds with darker complexion that they are beautiful, see if you look at south Asia it’s the gene and the hot sun responsible for our skin color we have been born in a way that we can adapt to nature.
Why should darker skinned girl think that she is not beautiful is my question??
Now and always it is very common that everyone thinks fair skin is attractive, well I should say at least in south Asia, for example: Let me take Tamil film industry, In Tamil film industry when we look at the most successful heroines apart from Sridevi, Trisha who are themselves Tamil with fair skin, most heroines are brought to Tamil industry from North India as they are fairer and beautiful, I do know when you wear a beautiful dress on a light skinned girl she will look like a doll, as for us most of us have seen dolls, Barbie dolls which are white or lighter color, which are sold most, sold most only lighter color dolls wear manufactured. I am a south Asia and only 1 out of the 10 woman I see in my community is fair rest 9 are dark.
I don’t see a point in directors making a fair woman to darker apart from her versatility in acting which again I feel that they can find woman who are talented in darker complexion.
Today’s young girls maybe depressed just my looking at some lame movies, where the guy falls in love with the girl who is fair even if the girl is so much of a drama queen and not for the darker friend next to her, I have never seen a movie till date casting a heroine’s friend prettier than the heroine, see people should basically show grow up and understand the difference between reality and movies.
I would like to put this out as a challenge to the producers and directors out there to cast a girl who is well talented and who is 9/10 woman of your community, dress her well and release the movie… I mean seriously there some ridiculous movies where woman other than the pretty heroine dresses like clown without any sense of dressing.
I would seriously blame it on our immature community and the film industry as the reason why darker skinned woman feel insecure, yes movies and TV commercials says only white skin can sell, who said that dark skin is not sexy or not hot.
One thing these young girls should understand that woman on TV were not born as that perfect pretty lady she is, why just woman even man, no one is flawless everyone is full of flaws it’s just that there is a lot of bleaching, waxing, pedicure, manicure, makeup and PHOTOSHOP behind the beauty which is screen.
For me confidence is what makes a woman beautiful, I did think that if Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri had participated in India she wouldn't have won, no I was wrong if she had participated in Miss India she would have definitely won the contest, the confidence she had when she walked with the bikini I got goose bumps. It’s not about you being dark or fair it’s all about how you carry yourself, how your present yourself that over takes one personality too in my point, it’s about your confidence.
Not every woman who is fair looks beautiful on the eyes of man, and not every man who is fair and tall attracts woman. It’s the way a person carries herself/himself is what matters and that my point of view.
I highly recommend the directors to let darker woman a very south Indian walk with mini skirt and dance with confidence of course dressed well and not like a clown, and see if she is admired by man.
I would say now it’s not what saree you wear; it’s how sexy and hot you wear it.
It’s not about dark woman/man or fair woman/man it’s how the woman/man is presented, mostly people with darker complexion are dress in a way that they will look bad while highlighting the fair complex person.
I would say with the immaturity of this community fair people are on the limelight, I basically feel that dark is beautiful campaign should bring out the confidence in today’s woman/man to stand up and speak for themselves and present them.
No one was born to feel insecure in this world, maybe these communities made you feel insecure but you can’t continue to be so,
You should stand up for yourself,
Trust yourself,
Believe that you worth more and what others say don’t matter,
Feel more confidence and believe that you are an able being.
Never have I ever felt sad to be born as a brown skinned girl in my life.
You life is in your hands and you decide if you want lose your confidence and lose yourself on what others think of, of who you are and what you look. Or just grow up and believe in yourself.
Confidence is Beautiful.
