A tale of beauty

[patsytramel]

This is so inspiring.. Thank you for sharing this piece.

[rebeccacarpenter95]

fantastic video, thanks for sharing .. keep it up =)

[kawaiinitz31]

Im asian and my skin is white but it gets tanned sometimes but always go back to being white after some time, I dont think it really matters. cause its still me, tanned or white. why wont people be contented on their skin?

[Billiee]

Bit odd how angry people get about this, the video is saying be who you want to be and don't get ruled by the cosmetic industry (did you know the US spend more a year on cosmetics than they do on healthcare?). I have very pale skin and to be honest don't really care, I think there are beautiful people of all colours and creeds, and I have come to love my pale skin.

[Billiee]

If anything it's dangerous staying in the sun if you are pale, skin cancer and all, and I have more to do with my life than paying for bronzer!! I spent a few months in Asia and the shelves are full of whitening cream, and here in the UK they are full of bronzer and fake tan! Just be happy with what you have, chil and enjoy life, and find beauty in everyone.

[Seaflowerr]

@Billiee pale is nice. I wish I was pale :D

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

LMAO. Hispanic bigotry.. gotta love it! One of the "holier than thou" types, eh? The bottom line... YOU ARE HISPANIC. Don't know you're exact background (whether you are "more this or that") and really don't care. You have the Hispanic features (dark hair, beige skin) that seems to be stabilized

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued #1)

among Hispanic populations. Maybe you live in Candyland, I dunno. Bottom line? Here in the U.S., black men & WOMEN will GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to criticize a black woman for keeping her hair natural. I know this, I have black friends that are female. I've also talked to black women that live in

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued # 2) the U.K. & said that it does happen (to a smaller extent) out there. BTW, most whites don't perm their hair anymore (that was in the 80's, before you were even a thought). They still dye their hair, but the curls are out & have been for yrs. Either way, I'm done w/ ya, you're boring me now. Keep living in your little Fantasy world, LOL!

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Let me translate here: You live in the U.K.,Caramelprincess, & feel "less than" b/c Y-O-U don't look like everyone else. Obviously there are East Indians, Blacks, etc. there, but not too many Hispanics (especially Mexicans). You create this FANSTASY (for yourself) in which every white person is just dieing to be Latino/a. Yeah.. LOL! Listen, Mericon, you are what you are.. just deal w/ it. You aren't gonna be white anytime soon, and whites aren't going out of their way to gain the Latino look. I

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued)

agree MANY whites go overboard w/ plastic surgery. Many white women end up looking like DRAG QUEENS(especially continuously injecting/altering their lips). Like YOU said though: they're not doing THAT for approval from black society. Other groups(purposefully or subconsciously)live by "the whiter is righter" standard & alter themselves to feel like they're "making it," in society. Many black women are criticized(mostly by other BLACKS) when they decide to keep their hair natural!

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

That went right over your head (but what else is new). A LOT of Hispanics have changed their last names to give them a "better chance in the workplace." You KNOW that's true. (Hispanic musicians have done it too). I didn't say whites didn't dye their hair. I said they didn't dye their hair to look Hispanic. You're seriously delusional, bitch! I never said whites didn't get plastic surgery. They aren't trying to do that to live up to "Black expectations."

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Hey, I know you got spellcheck, try using it ("cokkie"). No, white's DON'T think every1 wants to look like them. Actually, those ppl take it upon themselves to do those things themselves. They think if they look "whiter," they'll be more readily accepted into culture/society/corporate world, etc. BTW, who's trying to look Hispanic?! When's the last time you saw a white person (besides those w/ Spanish ancestry, let me Clarify) change their name to Marquez & dye their hair black? Think about it..

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Look, bitch, just b/c you have a white boyfriend doesn't mean you can't be racist. What? You want a cookie!? You still think Hispanics & Blacks are better than whites. You're just a disrespectful loser, that spends all her time trolling this vid. Britian is still-mainly- a white country, dumbass. It has been for hundreds of years. Grow up!

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

I guess Vegas schools don't teach you how to read (big surprise..1/2 the ppl from there are trash anyway..especially N. Vegas..1/2 you posers wish you were from CA). Once again, fool, I didn't say " lightskinned black woman are white." Yeah..keep putting words in my mouth. And if you don't like Whites, why the hell are you living in Britain?! That would be like me living in Mexico & putting down Mexicans. Hypocrite! I'm done w/ your loser ass. You have no life i guess, other than arguing on YT.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

LOL. I didn't say there weren't any lightskinned black women. I'm just wondering why you're obsessing over it. Anyway, you're just rambling now...ZZZZZ.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Yeah it's obvious you didn't read it. You're too damn ignorant to understand anything anyway. WTF are you talking about "a light skinned woman is still black?" Need to up your Zanax!

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

"no matter how much bleaching cream you use you won't turn white"

Tell that to a black man. Why would a black man dump on a pretty dark skinned black woman, for a lighter skinned one (even if she wasn't as good looking)? I don't think black women necessarily "want to be white." I think they want

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(cont. 1)

THEIR MEN to accept them.. That means altering their appearance, even superficially, to fit in to white culture. Like I said, a white man will not REFUSE to date a white woman even if she is pale. We look at facial features 1st. White's do want the "beach bum" look. You are right that a neutral shade (tanned skin) looks healthier. You are also right than many white ppl go overboard. I've seen plenty of "Cheeto orange' white ppl myself. You seem

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(cont. 2) a little bias though; Like you think Latina & Black women are better than any1 else. No one is better. Everyone has good/bad points.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Depends on your intention. If you are bleaching to hide skin patches, so be it. If you are bleaching to attract black males that DON'T like DARK COMPLECTED BLACK FEMALES, then i'd say there's an insecurity problem, wouldn't you?! White men will not AVOID dating a white woman, just b/c she "needs to get a little sun." You know that's true. That's just not being comfortable in your skin. I don't agree w/ white

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

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women tanning IF they were too wish that they were Italian, instead of Irish or something absurd like that. The fact is, that type of thinking doesn't permeate the white psyche.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

BTW, Caramel, I just wanted to add, I work w/ several black women, and A LOT of them bleach their skin. They complain that they have dark patches (hyper pigmentation). Some say that their men like it that way. I know one black girl that gets lighter and lighter every month. Each group wants what the other has. Or their society pushes them towards a certain look.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Actually, most Chinese women already have light skin (they're from the same latitude as N. Europeans). A bigger problem is getting eye surgery to "correct" the shape of the eye.. to give them a more Euro apperance. I think it's a sin personally. Everyone thinks that whites look for the Euro "standard of beauty" in other ppls; WE DON'T. If we did, then there wouldn't be white guys chasing Asian women. LOL! The same goes

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued)

for any other group of ppl. People in general look for what is attractive w/in each group. Most White ppl DON'T lighten their skin at all. If anything, more get tans.Tans are considered to convey wealth; that your an "outdoorsy" type that likes to have fun in the sun. It is tied in w/ everything from early 1900s "wealthy playboy" culture and "expensive cruises" and 50's

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued)

"beach" culture. As far as hispanics, it depends on which group. Most Mexicans I know, are naturally a light brown color. Many Cubans & Puerto Ricans are as light as unmixed whites. Alot of it depends on their background.

[cat22203]

No, you judge from the white trash American women who are blond and want to have a tan to match their fake blond hair! We European women like Asian women think that the whiter the skin, the more beautiful, and we never tan!

[Barbiequeen89]

It depends where you are from hun or what is in for your race. If your Dark you want to be light if you are pale you want a glow just because its 2009 doesn't mean that people don't want something we should all just be happy with what we got. tanning doesn't look natural and bleaching your skin isn't either.

[trueisrael1]

i'll prove to you that being white is a curse

try to go in the sun about 5 hours and see what will happen to yo skin and dont use sun tan lotion and by the way black is what you call beautiful which is the same color god is you devil BITCH!!!!!!!

[onemilkshake2straws]

Man i like you!!

your like, every girls dream..(if..you..tell them this shit every day :L)

xxxxxxx

[jaysicka06]

thanks for posting this video!!!!

[Eclipseislove]

Ugh. i'm hispanic but i'm the only pale one in my family. My aunt would persuade me that tan skin is sexier. "It's what men like."

Well, i can't tan. i only burn to the color of a tomato.

But i'm happy now that i'm different.

[sciath]

Im white but I think tans are ugly

[maipai101]

fake tans that is.

[Barbiequeen89]

Both are beautiful!

But I must say that this really upsets me I am American born but I lived in Greece for seven years between the ages of ages of 2&9 and I have olive skin in Greece people made me feel like crap because my skin was too dark for them but here in America all I get is compliments.

[WhatDiamond]

lol. ppl either want white skin or bronze, tan colour.. no one wants to be dark though.. dark brown, black... hmmm so i say they are both right for differnt ppl.

[lindap84]

Well i must say. That was rather a statement said out of ignorance lol. Im dark skinned and i get complimented all the time by white folks because i have lovely skin. You of course wouldnt know what thats like. Your too busy sitting inside your petty little house staring at the mirror. Lol take a closer look and i think you might find an ugly side you never saw before

[lorenzo8500]

Talk about self hate. What's wrong with the skin you were born with jeez.

[trueisrael1]

all you white devils know that white pale skin is not right. for a matter of fact its a sin to have pale skin read the bible which you devils dont believe in. so read leviticus chap. 14 . vers 1. thru 7.

[lorenzo8500]

Dude what are you talking about I'm black.

[cat22203]

I think you need a good psychiatrist ASAP! I am white as a milk , I am Caucasian, and very beautiful and everybody comments all the time on my porcelain skin. White is gorgeous.

[trickynix2]

Yeah no kidding, so what the HELL is one supposed to do? Whatever, media people are on crack anyway...

[Saibot00]

i can be out in the sun all day i dont get sun burns or skin cancer and im black too...

[FreeBDesh]

This beuty thing is crap. Im asian but I thought western people were better looking anyway!

[cool70200]

blah, look like a white american woman eh? is that what the middleeastern men want to see?

personally as a guy, I dont really care about dark or medium or light, I just like beauty, butt and breasts, mmmmmmm :P

[LoneCookie]

i will say one thing, that all these sort of beauty adverts personally make me ill. they are so false and sugary and are so blatantly a con.

[babybelly76]

aha I knew I find this retarded shit on this crap. I am of Eastern decent and I DON'T have dark skin. I am very pale with dark hair and hazel brown eyes. I am so sorry that you all go according to race. Its pathetic and I have been to many places where the supposed "darkness" just wasn't happening like they try to show you on T.V. and I am HEALTHY and no where does it say because you are light that something is wrong and vice versa with dark skin...GROW UP.

[GaisiFlower]

Pale skin is the best . White skin is beautiful

[JamaicanCutie18]

dont fool yourself

[maipai101]

You have gotta be kidding me!?

[blakdiamond100]

darker/ brown/tanned skin is always better and forever will be...! it makes you look more exotic and healthier! i am so proud of my mixed background i get the skin colour of a light skinned black girl! =)

[Soveraine]

@blakdiamond100 So I look sickly and un-exotic?

Ooooookey.

[vansijll]

This 'video-maker' realy hates lipstick and maskara that much? Almost pafetic!

[maire83]

cont.—What changed in the West was our socio-economic situation. One reason people used to want to be pale was it was a sign that you were wealthy. But now, pale is a sign that you're stuck indoors working, and also it indicates you're not active/healthy/popular. The cosmetics industry did not create this "need."

[maipai101]

Yes they did! Know your history because the popularization of the tan was created by the CoCo Chanel herself after she came back from vacation. Then everyone wanted tans because it was a sign that you had leisure time.

[Aueneye]

That's actually a common misconception. The tan's actual popularity began with a Victorian lady named Margarette Kithelbert, whose passion for Sunny D gave her a jaundice appearance. Needless to say that in no time at all much of Victorian society wanted also to acquire the look of someone whose liver is packing up. Strange but True?

[maipai101]

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

[Barbiequeen89]

you are right because fair skin showed that you were rich and you didn't work outside for hours, Fair skin showed status.

[maire83]

Good intentions, but this vid has got it backwards. Read your HISTORY, look at the women in Western art throughout the ages. Until the 1960s PALE skin was the standard, not tan. The fact that both Asia & Europe had a pale standard for thousands of years is historically very well-documented—cont.

[godscuttingyoudown]

its not just skin, its 99% of all products you really don't need, but just like in play Othelo if you attack the part in all of use that has a fear of inadiquacy you can inslave the world.

I think these skin companies don't care what color is right what they care is convincing women that they are incomplete and if they surrender their power (money is one form of power in the modern world)then the company will sell them the missing peice.

[SuperSizedSexy]

I find it astonishing the number of comments that people have posted on this video that make it quite obvious that the people who posted them missed the ENTIRE POINT! They are arguing and talking about whether tan or pale is more "beautiful" when the entire point of the video is that we are all different and it's idiotic to try and conform to other people's ideal of what beauty is and that people should love and accept who they are, how nature made them.

[sciath]

exactly I'm sick of this b.s. that the white skin I and my entire family have isn't good enough and that we should fry ourselves under the sun :P I think white skin is better

[luvyawinter]

I live in the US and I've always thought a tan is ugly and that pale looks better. I have actually tried whitening cleansers/creams. They don't really work.

[eternalnordica]

Its called Zionist media. Pale skin is beautiful.

[666XZ]

jing jang ?_?

[mynameisjulie]

i am part filipino, but i came out very light skinned. whenever i go to the philippines to see my family everyone always says "you are so beautiful! you look so canadian!" but i know i should be happy with my colour, but if i had the choice, i'd be darker.

[xeemlauj]

ahahahhaha.. i always thought being tan looks sexy.. im asian.. i love my tan skin...

[Alienamy]

Thank you very much for your video!!!

It's exactly what I've always thought.

[miguelcotto23]

I think that the asians are right. White is right. Most asian girls I know whant to be whiter, I think they look better that way. Same thing with Indian women and Middle East. White Power!

[katiezSPACE]

interesting stuff! and this is indeed so truee!

[rn1432]

amazing video. Im in the east and if i get darker they always put me down

when really a little dark to your skin makes you look really healthy.

[laninder]

I am indian, born in canada. Went to india for a first time recently that s*** was everywhere! I was annoyed...kept thinking "umm, we're indian, we're supposed to be dark!"

[violaplayer1987]

OMG! Do they really tell them to lighten their skin?

[Jantrao]

I'm in China right now and the answer is YES YES YES. The cosmetics aisle here is filled with whitening creams. Whiteness screams at you from every page and billboard. I happen to be white and they think I'm the epitomy of beauty here (???????).

[gellykiss]

loved your vid. you are totally right.

[maipai101]

thanks i voted 4 your video.