What do you consider Light Skin

Brooklyn in the house

 

Well firstly I wouldn't call anyone light skin who doesn't identify solely as black b/c otherwise it's offensive. As far as skin tones goes I agree on the Chris Brown analogy.

 

Love dark-skinned men... the guy I am currently seeing the most is so dark that he was standing in front of my door in the early early morning (my door is black), and I could only see his teeth, eyes and a little bit of shiny brown highlight to his features that distinguished there was a person standing there... other than that he looked like "The Invisible Man" standing there inside some clothes LOL...

 

brown paper bag test 294 up, 63 down
An actual test, along with the so-called ruler test in common use in the the early 1900s among upper class Black American societies and families to determine if a Black person was sufficiently white to gain admittance or acceptance. If your skin was darker than a brown paper bag, you did not merit inclusion. Thousands of Black institutions including the nation's most eminent Black fraternity -- Phi Alpha Phi, Howard Univiersity, and numerous church and civic groups all practiced this discriminiation. The practice has 19th Century antecedants with the Blue Blood Society and has not totally died out.

Zora Neal Hurston was the first well known writer to air this strange practice in a public. The practice is now nearly universally condemned (at least in public) as being an example of "colorism". Particularly cogent modern day critiques can be found in Kathy Russell's "The Color Complex", Tony Morrion's "The Bluest Eye" (an Ophrey Book Club choice) and Marita Golden's "Don't Play in the Sun." The best known send-up of the pactice, however, is Spike Lee's scathing and hilarious 1988 movie, "School Daze."
"Though the brown paper bag test is antiquated and frowned upon as a shameful moment in African-American history, the ideals behind the practice still lingers in the African-American community" -- Rivea Ruff, BlackCollegeView.Com

 

Drae Drat patty wack, I'd say you are dark skinnedededed.
And I'd say Duwy is lightskinnedededed.

I'd google and post images but I'm too lazy.

Okay, I sucked it up and found an image.

20-18 Dark
15-11 Medium
10-6 Light
5-1 White ppl LoL

 

Im definitely that 20 lol.
Ive also noticed that chicks on the west coast are partial to lighter skinned dudes

 

I guess I am a 20 then

 

I'm kind of partial to medium, heh, but for really really, I don't care. If he meets a lot of my other criterion, he can be any shade of black, brown, or beige. :smt045

 

uh I'll take the first one thanks

Anyway the men I've ever dated take sooo much time in the bathroom - I figured out later is because they were putting on lotion...

Inspiring...I have started putting lotion on my body and the response is... nice... (I had neglected it for awhile but have been going with naked legs and things just start happening...)

Love dark men that take care of their skin!!!!:smt055

 

They are?

 

Welp, relative to black people, here is the spectrum:





Light-Skinned or "Redbone":



Medium Brown:





Dark Brown:



Dark Skinned or "Dark Chocolate":

 

What do you prefer I say? "A guy I am dating"?

"My boyfriend" or THE "guy I'm seeing" wouldn't be accurate.

 

As far as Ive seen yeah

 

I'm going to try and do a color spectrum chart with light skinned peeps:

Mind you, I'm pale, so I'm working from the bottom up, skin tone wise...lol
















I know the first 4 are biracial, but still light skinned nonetheless...

 

Interesting. This topic came out of a convo I had in chat and got brought up when we were talking about LA and he looks a lot like Chris Brown or even Derek Roses complextion to me. Funny how people see things differently.

 

I know. I think LA is one complexion darker than Chris or Derrick.

 

I prefer chocolate black men. But light skin ones can do as well.

All black men are beautiful to me.

 

so glad a white woman didnt start this thread..........................

 

all black men are fabulous, their skin tone (for me) is irrelevant