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Don’t they now have band aids in different skin tones now???
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I think it would be fascinating to check the range of skin colors and tones sold by a cosmetic line that sold to women of color compared to ones sold to caucasian women.
youre probably right. it’s funny, i had to buy concealer once and obviously it comes in every skin tone. get home, put it on, and uhhh.. i thought i bought the right tone. put it on and it was at least 10 shades darker than what i should have bought :-/
*rob*
Cosmetic – I can have a rant about that. I use to buy treatment from a company which did not originally carry foundation for women of color. They expanded there line to include foundation for all women with some perfect match formular.
I go to the counter and some nordic bimbo pulls out a bottle and tell me “this is our shade for black women” then tried to convince me that it would match my skin. Yeah right
“Black women go from lily white (different under-tone) to ebony.”
I refer to my half black half white niece and nephews as “Vermont maple syrup.” Actually my sister (their mother) started it but I figured it was funny enough and mildly offensive enough to keep saying it.
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I do not hold myself accountable for the actions of others.
okay, well that is a good answer.
*rob*
ENY – A company will have 25 shades for white women and 2 for black women. Black women go from lily white (different under-tone) to ebony.
“Sometimes I am amazed by that on the subway and I try not to stare.”
When I first started to ride the subway as a freshman in high school, I would get in trouble for staring at all the different people around me. It was so interesting. I grew up exposed to all types of individuals, even in my own family but the subway brought a whole new dimension to all the variety of people.
slopefarm,
Agreed, things seem to be so amplified these days.
Used to be you’d sit and watch ABC nightly news and you listened to some candidates talk and a couple of debates and there you had it.
Nowadays, there’s so many things flying at you from every media angle that it makes the head spin.
We can only hope that there is wisdom in the masses out there.
By Legion on May 26, 2011 4:00 PM
According to TV commercials,
there are only White people and Black people
The really amazing thing is that there is such a dizzying mix of people –so much mixture of race in the US that the range of looks and types among black people (which is what we call people who are part black) is incredible. People from the Islands who are mixed with Indians (from India) or Chinese black people, or mixed Japanese/black and so many US blacks are mixed with Amercan Indian or Latino/Hispanic, And the range of color of people from Africa from the swarthy Indo European Arabic or Iranian people to an incredible range of looks of African people. I think it would be fascinating to check the range of skin colors and tones sold by a cosmetic line that sold to women of color compared to ones sold to caucasian women. Sometimes I am amazed by that on the subway and I try not to stare.