What's your tone now, and what's your goal?

http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af126/Golden-Guy/skintone1.jpg

I would have to say natural skin tone from above, is closest to Brown,

and my Goal is Olive or Medium.

What's yours?

That's a ty skin-color scale that doesn't even cover the HALF of darker skin tones! LOL. It's got like three dark shades, wow.

Here's a better scale of dark skin shades (just people of African descent, because with the 'white' skin tones, that chart shows more variety of colors):

http://blogs.bet.com/entertainment/spotlight/bet-blog/assets/2008/12/faith-evans.gif

http://riverdaughter.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/rihanna-emo-punk_1333.jpg

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff175/daytimeconfidential/Stars/tyra_banks.jpg

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/sanaa-lathan/pictures/sanaa-lathan-picture-1.jpg

http://www.xcomment.com/g3/img/653_gabrielle_union_nov05_maxim01112107024355.gif

http://agentsmithfiles.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/missy.jpg

...

http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/alekwek/alek-wek-pb.jpg

http://alloveralbany.com/images/manute_bol.jpg

I'm at Sanna Lathan (the pic right under Tyra) and I'm aiming for Tyra's color!

Sorry Vicky! I actually thought that's lots of skin tone for me to digest! Dermatologists have a list of 1 to 6, types of skincolor. Above chart has 8 tones.

Now once you girls get into MAC Makeup that's like 100s of tones... :)

We already have two threads like this... Read the threads before you start making new ones. This is getting really annoying. You should close this.

Actually, the other thread is about celeb pics, and doesn't have any skin tone chart.

If you look, there are already several other posts with skin complexion charts. Maybe you should take the time to search around the board before you post up a million and one questions a day. It is terribly annoying and if you keep it up I'm going to report you.

Wow golden_boy my complexion is closest to brown also!. and I want to be either medium or olive ,according to your chart. I would also be happy if I got to tan! According to the other chart I would say that I am kind of close to Sana Lathan except that my undertones are totally different. My undertones are like an olive. My mom says I have an unusual undertone because of my father who is very light. Even when he gets a very dark tan he is still not dark.The darkest he can get is like a medium brown but his father is mixed so maybe that's why he can't get dark.Now once when I was at my fathers house he was walking around in his boxer briefs and wife beater aka(white tank shirt)and his arms face and neck were like a medium brown with red undertones but the wrest of his body that was showing was closest to Faith Evans complexion according to Viki chart or between olive and tan according to golden boy chart.

Wow golden_boy my complexion is closest to brown also!. and I want to be either medium or olive ,according to your chart. I would also be happy if I got to tan! According to the other chart I would say that I am kind of close to Sana Lathan except that my undertones are totally different. My undertones are like an olive. My mom says I have an unusual undertone because of my father who is very light. Even when he gets a very dark tan he is still not dark.The darkest he can get is like a medium brown but his father is mixed so maybe that's why he can't get dark.Now once when I was at my fathers house he was walking around in his boxer briefs and wife beater aka(white tank shirt)and his arms face and neck were like a medium brown with red undertones but the wrest of his body that was showing was between Rihanna and Faith Evans complexion according to Viki chart or between olive and tan according to golden boy chart.

Wow golden_boy my complexion is closest to brown also!!....

and I want to be either medium or olive ,according to your chart.

I would also be happy if I got to tan!

My undertones are like an olive.

I was at my fathers house he was walking around in his boxer briefs and wife beater ... and his arms face and neck were like a medium brown with red undertones but the wrest of his body that was showing was ...between olive and tan according to golden boy chart.


LOL what a coincidence, Red! My tone is weird too, because I'm brown/olive skin but even when Im at my lightest like in the winter, there's so much red which I don't like... but what to do at least when we are light, either medium, or olive, we won't be that shade of brown that can look too dusky for our own personal taste, right?

And yeah dusky with a tan is too dark, while if we lighten to medium-ish, our tan will look a nice warm olive or "golden" tone!

Hi,

I have a question. Hope I don't offend anyone.

I see the skin lighting threads all the time, I'm just wondering..

Why? Is it because your uncomfortable in your own skin?



I'm just curious. I've never known of anyone whom did this...

Sarah

Hi,

I have a question. Hope I don't offend anyone.

I see the skin lighting threads all the time, I'm just wondering..

Why? Is it because your uncomfortable in your own skin?


I'm just curious. I've never known of anyone whom did this...

Sarah

Ever heard people tell someone

"you need a tan!" without any offense intended?

Well, in contrast,

Someone decides for themselves they want to lose their tan, or get lighter,

And bamm, heads roll! :eek:


(Yet no one ever got skin cancer from lightening, while millions do from tanning )

Go figure.

:)

Heads roll?

Aren't you being a little dramatic? I just asked a question.

Sorry?

Sarah

LOL, It has nothing to do with not being comfortable in your own skin. Some people lighten for different reasons. For instance I am a naturally light person ,but one time I went on vacation with my dad and his wife who hates me. I was 9 years old and we were at the beach. It was 90 or 100 degrees out and the sun was beaming. There were 2 big sun umbrellas and my dads wife wouldn't let me sit under neither of them. So I ended up falling asleep in the sun and to make matters worst I didn't have any sunblock on. When I woke up my skin was in a lot of pain! My skin was a medium olive complexion ,but after that it was a dark reddish brown. It was so bad that I looked as if I were a Lil red martian! LOL When I got home my mom got really angry with my dad for letting that happened. My skin was peeling a lot on its own and my skin was hurting and stinging a lot so my mom then took me to the doctors because she was very worried. The doctor said that I should be okay and that next time I should use sunblock or I will get skin cancer eventually! My skin finished peeling ,but it never returned to its original color.Now I have very small bright olive specks scattered all over my body and my complexion is'nt even at all! It is not very noticeable ,but it does bother me like it would any person. So I am lightening my skin so I can get back to my original color. Now people tan ,does that mean they are not comfortable in the skin they are in? Tanning is the same as skin lightening! It doesn't mean that you are insecure. It is all about a matter of preference. Just like if someone had really bad acne and wanted to get it removed. Would them getting it remove mean that they are insecure and not comfortable in their skin? No not necessarily. Some people get their acne removed because that is what they prefer!

Nope Im not being dramatic.

Why, because I never heard of a person who loves Tanning being asked the question you asked.

Have you?

:)

Nope Im not bein dramatic.

Why, because I never heard of a person who loves Tanning being asked the question you asked.

Have you?

:)

Actually, yes.

There are people who are orange and or just look unnatural-- those people get asked those type of questions.

I've never met or heard of skin lightening till I came onto this site.

I grew up in a small town- meh.

Sarah

LOL, It has nothing to do with not being comfortable in your own skin. Some people lighten for different reasons. For instance I am a naturally light person ,but one time I went on vacation with my dad and his wife who hates me. I was 9 years old and we were at the beach. It was 90 or 100 degrees out and the sun was beaming. There were 2 big sun umbrellas and my dads wife wouldn't let me sit under neither of them. So I ended up falling asleep in the sun and to make matters worst I didn't have any sunblock on. When I woke up my skin was in a lot of pain!! My skin was a medium olive complexion ,but after that it was a dark reddish brown. It was so bad that I looked as if I were a Lil red martian!! LOL When I got home my mom got really angry with my dad for letting that happened. My skin was peeling a lot on its own and my skin was hurting and stinging a lot so my mom then took me to the doctors because she was very worried. The doctor said that I should be okay and that next time I should use sunblock or I will get skin cancer eventually!! My skin finished peeling ,but it never returned to its original color.Now I have very small bright olive specks scattered all over my body and my complexion is'nt even at all!! It is not very noticeable ,but it does bother me like it would any person. So I am lightening my skin so I can get back to my original color. Now people tan ,does that mean they are not comfortable in the skin they are in? Tanning is the same as skin lightening!! It doesn't mean that you are insecure. It is all about a matter of preference. Just like if someone had really bad acne and wanted to get it removed. Would them getting it remove mean that they are insecure and not comfortable in their skin? No not necessarily. Some people get their acne removed because that is what they prefer!!

Your welcome. I don't know what race you are or what complexion you may be ,but some people come through threads like this asking questions like that a lot and it can start trouble depending on how the person asking the question puts it. I don't think you meant any harm or arrogance and that your question was just pure curiosity. Most of the time if it is'nt something you are into or if it is'nt something that anyone you know is into ,it will merely cause you to become curious. My mother told me when I was little that no question is a dumb or bad question and that if you don't truly understand something... then you should question it. I myself asked another person on here a question and they have me a very ignorant response ,but I don't condone stuff like that. So I just left it alone and didn't mimick her ignorance. This is askmehelpdesk ,which in my opinion means that if someone asks me a question ,I am going to try and answer it as clearly,effective,and as friendly as I can.

Thanks LOL and it was pretty obvious that you were'nt being dramatic. It's just that there was a misunderstanding.Also a lot of people don't realise it ,but skin lightening itself is a very complicated and touchy subject that some people ,including myself ,feel strongly about.

I agree. I guess it's because skin lightening is viewed so negatively that it can put you on the defensive, when questioned.


In all honesty it is a bit like asking someone why they wear certain clothes. It's just CHOICE and I thank God that I lIve in a free country where I can CHOOSE!!

Thanx LOL and it was pretty obvious that you were'nt being dramatic. It's just that there was a misunderstanding.Also a lot of people don't realise it ,but skin lightening itself is a very complicated and touchy subject that some people ,including myself ,feel strongly about.


Yeah Maharani & Red, agree, well I'm defensive because I really do feel its as equal as asking every person that buys suntan lotion (not just sunblock) if they're not happy with their own skin :)

Well America at least is like 80% northern european descent, so it makes sense there's a tanning salon on every city block but no lightening cream stores (thats what beauty supply for)...

I'm working on melasma, suntoasted neck and forearms, I'm also darker on my left side of face from driving. :< My darker parts are like

http://thisrecording.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/gabrielle-union-picture-1.jpg


I love SL's color it's close to my torso (unexposed skin) shade... mostly I just want to get relatively even.

http://www.martinipink.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sanaa-lathan-dg.jpg

It's been years of neglect so I'm not expecting to undo it overnight.
So there's almost this sort of situation going on now

http://bp1.blogger.com/_ND920tPjWkA/SGnB_JX2Y0I/AAAAAAAAHH4/OpPvvKw0dlo/s400/toni+braxton+face.jpg:(

I'm back on sunblock, glycolic peels, and 3 % HQ. I'm seeing a gradual difference after 3 months.

I actually use my breasts or childhood photographs as my ideal color goal. LOL!

I actually use my breasts or childhood photographs as my ideal color goal. LOL!


Great idea, love it! :)

What's your tone now, and what's your goal?

http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af126/Golden-Guy/skintone1.jpg

I would have to say natural skin tone from above, is closest to Brown,

and my Goal is Olive or Medium.

What's yours?

Hi! Does anyone here think that going from dark brown to olive is to far? I was naturally a light person years ago (childhood) and was mostly tan during that time (East African). I guess I should show off the childhood pics to keep the nosy people satisfied.

How long could it take before the sun damage reverses? Lastly, how long will it take to see this change using natural methods like exfoliation and sunblock?

Thanks! (First Post)

Bring my first post up! :P

I want to be a really light brown like the skin tone biracial children have