Fair and Lovely

Login to find out (July 28, 2005 at 1:52pm)

maybe we can get different tints...
or mood relative tones.
that would be cool. and would make social discourse all the easier.

"she says she's nothings bothering me, but she is become a deep Teal color, perhaps something is, in fact, bothering her.... "

Login to find out (July 28, 2005 at 11:05am)

lol at alia68 :)

Login to find out (July 27, 2005 at 9:52pm)

Ertw---or darken it ;)

Login to find out (July 27, 2005 at 4:24pm)

ertw - i hope not! i like a nice deep brown skin. mmm. so do a lot of my white friends! grass is always greener... but brown/black skin ages better, is less likely to get skin cancer, blisters or sunburns, shows less imperfections, doesn't easily freckle, etc etc. plus it just looks so good... so smooth. *sigh*

Login to find out (July 26, 2005 at 7:30am)

I totally disagree paradise... Madhubala was a major babe, mashallah. :)

Login to find out (July 26, 2005 at 5:06am)

Wildchild84, the old Hindi film actress, Madhubala, had the softest, roundest, bubbliest features I have ever seen in my life, and she was and still is considered to be one of the most beautiful women in all of Hindi cinema.
P.S. I do not think she was all that. No offense to any of you fans of hers.

Login to find out (July 26, 2005 at 2:22am)

we are whitewashed.. err.. brainwashed.. i mean whitewashed.. eh ! whatever..

Login to find out (July 25, 2005 at 7:07pm)

In the future who knows maybe a form of gene therapy will be developed that will let someone lighten all of their skin...

Login to find out (July 25, 2005 at 8:40am)

I know about fair and lovley, they have it over at the spice shop/video piracy ring around the way. It actually disgusts me to a not insignificant degree. Its kind-of like ignorance bag/box (depending on which product).

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 11:04pm)

In Pak/India there is this cream sold called "Fair and Lovely" basically a bleaching cream to make the skin appear lighter. I don't think it really works though.

Seeing a desi dhulan/bride means that you dont' really know what she looks like as the makeup consists of 3 pounds of white foundation.

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 10:50pm)

Racism sucks, the "ideal" of the light skinned dulhan is at once bogus AND a call back to the bullsh*t caste system that Islam SHOULD have abolished centuries ago.

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 10:29pm)

in response to the je i've noticed some desi's i meet on here have main pics that show their skin complexion to be much more lighter than pics that they keep in the 'only people i chose' hidden pics part of their photo album. i find that interesting. hope that answers your question.

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 10:24pm)

amna haq looks arab. what a gorgeous lady..

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 7:56pm)

My experience is desi aunty's prefer the sharper features with fair skin/hair/eyes. In north america the aunties like that look with tall height too-whereas height isn't an issue in India/Pak.

I was always considered fair, and it's usually the first thing people comment on regarding my looks. But that benefit was rather negated by my quiet bookish/nerdy personality as I was growing up. Even now I'm rather lower maintenance in my looks-less makeup, clothes shop every 6 months and tend to sometimes resemble the somewhat unkempt scholar. So I never developed any attitude problem as a result. :)

I did observe how my darker cousins were discriminated against and constantly told that they were ugly. I used to feel sorry for them as a result, and I have to admit that apart of me was glad I wasn't that dark.

Login to find out (July 24, 2005 at 4:56pm)

Soft rounded features are not good in desi mentality at all...in many zaroorat e rishta ads, people brag about their daughter's sharp features and all the paki models like iman, amna haq, vaneeza, etc. have chiseled faces. Not good for me since I have a total babyface lol

Login to find out (June 15, 2005 at 12:05am)

CF: dude, you are suffering from recursive paste- www.nydailynews.com syndrome

Login to find out (June 14, 2005 at 6:24pm)

I wanna see this miracle!

Login to find out (June 14, 2005 at 3:53pm)

i was on holiday in the sun and have got a pretty good tan. and i was told - by desi's - that i looked healthy. so expect miracles cos sometimes they can happen

Login to find out (June 14, 2005 at 2:27pm)

St-Believer: thanks for the advice... I'll th- www.nydailynews.com about it.

Login to find out (June 14, 2005 at 3:39am)

Foxglove, that Ethiopian model is beautiful. Many women of other ethnicities, such as African, Mediterranean and sometimes Middle-Eastern are generally considered to be beautiful regardless of whether they have light skin or not. For example, one cannot argue that Greek and Italian women (Mediterranean) look great with tans. Most Assyrian, Armenian and Turkish people look nice when tanned also. Even Iranian people can get a nice tan and still look great. Latina women like to get tan and they look hot, like Jennifer Lopez. And there are many African-American or Afro-European models or actresses with darker skin that are considered beautiful, such as Naomi Campbell, and that Ethiopian model from the link that Foxglove provided. I wonder why it is only in the Desi culture that darker or tan skin is considered to be a "strike" against being beautiful/attractive? As a Desi woman who does not have fair skin, I have thought about this a lot?.
Sometimes I think that darker skin doesn't particularly suit the "typical" Desi features...but if a girl or guy often ?passes for? or gets mistaken for being Latino, Caucasian or Middle Eastern because of their features, but has darker skin, they can still "pass" for being very attractive. It is shallow and quite a pity, but I have noticed this.

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