Kim Fields--how did she get so light?

DarkSkinGirl · Nov 3, 2009, 01:34 PM

Kim Fields was brown on Facts of Life. Then when she did Living Single, she was light complected.

Now, she is brown again.

I wonder what she was using back then

Golden_Girl · Nov 5, 2009, 06:36 PM

I always thought she was more "cute"

BrownDeceit · Nov 5, 2009, 06:37 PM

Yeah exactly! But maybe some long hair extensions and a little weight loss could have taken her to the "beautiful" side.

EggoMini · Nov 5, 2009, 09:21 PM

She's hawt in that afro picture! I think that's her look. lol!

DarkSkinGirl · Nov 6, 2009, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicky_D

She's always been light, she was never dark brown.

Looks the same to me!

Every time a "black" woman has lighter skin, she always has to have bleached, right? WRONG. Plenty women of African decent (including those STRAIGHT FROM AFRICA) have naturally yellow-ish toned/lighter skin. Also think about makeup and lighting, if skin tones vary slightly in photos/on TV.

Well being that this is a skin lightening forum, and that there are so many poeple of color bleaching its not that far of a reach to suspect others of doing it too. bleaching is a multibillion dollar industry, for it to be that profitable it has to have a lot of people doing it

I mean a lot of black celebs end up getting lighter. the more money they make the lighter they get whether it be through makeup, bleaching, peeling etc.

in some of her pics she looks brown, then others she looks very light to me.

Vicky_D · Nov 6, 2009, 10:38 AM

Like I said, I have NEVER seen a picture of her where she looks "DARK SKINNED" by our definition of a dark skinned black person. She just looks like a medium to light brown from what I have seen in every picture. Tanning/sun/lighting/makeup all come into play here, but I highly doubt she's a bleacher.

EggoMini · Nov 6, 2009, 11:46 AM

Are there any sites where I can see actual photos of people who have bleached beyond their G-d given color?

I've seen melasma, sun damage & permatan, acne marks, hyperpigmentation etc. reversed (giving the illusion of lightening) but I'd like to see examples of actual color changes.

DarkSkinGirl · Nov 6, 2009, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky_D

Like I said, I have NEVER seen a picture of her where she looks "DARK SKINNED" by our definition of a dark skinned black person. She just looks like a medium to light brown from what I have seen in every picture. Tanning/sun/lighting/makeup all come into play here, but I highly doubt she's a bleacher.

who ever said she was darkskin? I said she was brown. Just because a person bleaches doesn't mean that their previous color had to be darkskin. Manypeople of all shades are bleaching, even the lighter complected ones are trying to get even lighter.

In some of her pics she looks brown to me, and during living single, she looked several shades lighter than when she was on facts of life. no she was never a darkskin woman to begin with

nikkicute · Nov 6, 2009, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by EggoMini

Are there any sites where I can see actual photos of people who have bleached beyond their G-d given color?

I've seen melasma, sun damage & permatan, acne marks, hyperpigmentation etc. reversed (giving the illusion of lightening) but I'd like to see examples of actual color changes.

lol You still looking for those before and afters huh?
I honestly don't think your going to get any and the ones who do put them up get their photo's get scrutinized to death. Sooner or later a picture will be seen.

EggoMini · Nov 6, 2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by nikkicute

lol You still looking for those before and afters huh?
I honestly don't think your going to get any and the ones who do put them up get their photo's get scrutinized to death. Sooner or later a picture will be seen.

Hey, hope springs eternal?!

I think it would help. I get the privacy issues but OTOH everything is so anecdotal and like "my mother's second cousin's shoemaker used this and he's a ghost now!" The problem is that we don't know what color this person was under his/her clothes. He could've been a sunburnt ghost all along.

Or we have tons of celeb pics (which are individually great for reference & just fun to post) but overall they're 50 million different shades of suntan, bronzer, makeup, photoshopped, flashbulb etc.

About Kim, Rihanna, Latoya, Oprah, Patti Labelle, etc. it's tricky. You see them now and then someone retrieves a photo from when they had to wait out in the sun for the bus and stuff and goes "Aha!, Caught her!"

2nd thought, Kim F. isn't as tricky because even when her head is browner, her lighter decolletage gives it away as sun & makeup. So in the 'Regine' and other phases she jsut has a more even tone.

Latoya J. is a true mystery to me. It actually seems like she's a bit darker & more caramely now?



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