[Czrzftmz]

In reference to the black community (all are welcome to comment obviously) what do you consider light, dark etc.?

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[Trientoriciom]

It's all subjective, but in my opinion:

Light Skinned:




Medium Skinned:




Dark Skinned:

[TNOULbr2]

Is there such a thing as medium skin? Or only dark and light?

[pobrierce]

Is there such a thing as medium skin? Or only dark and light?

Yea there is when you're not identifiably dark or light.

[jarsbars]

Yea there is when you're not identifiably dark or light.

Yep. I don't consider myself light or dark. I'm just in between, so I'm medium-toned, or brown skinned.

[OrefZorremn]

Collin Powell is somewhat light skinned.

[bebeacc]

This should be an interesting thing.

IMO Beyonce is light skinned.

[voodoosdv]

It's all subjective, but in my opinion:

Light Skinned:




Medium Skinned:




Dark Skinned:

Interesting I agreed with most of it except I wouldnt call Beyonce or Chris Brown medium I'd call them light.

BEYONCE ALICIA LOOK QUITE SIMILAR






HILL HARPER & HOLLY WOULD BE MEDIUM TO ME



Anything Nia Long and darker is dark skinned to me

[11Woxsepmoomo]

imo. its all relative as ari said though, im white so my idea of whats dark is probably different than yours.

light
http://wysinger.homestead.com/harold-ford.jpg
http://cdn.blogs.sheknows.com/pregna...a-campbell.jpg
medium
http://myplay.com/files/imagecache/p...es/beyonce.jpg
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/i...r%20Hudson.jpg
dark
http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/upl...on-cheadle.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3331/3...f10_z.jpg?zz=1

[weightpillsnow]

Yep. I don't consider myself light or dark. I'm just in between, so I'm medium-toned, or brown skinned.

True though a lot of black folks call anyone caramel skinned/lighter brown or a shade lighter than usher light skinned…lol

[BenBoobmers]

True though a lot of black folks call anyone caramel skinned/lighter brown or a shade lighter than usher light skinned…lol

Yeah. I've been called light skinned before, but I don't think that's right at all. Lol! I also think like Beyonce, I can look lighter or darker depending on the time of year and lighting, but I still consider myself medium, and her medium toned as well.

[JakilSong]

imo. im white, so you're all dark as fuck to me anyways..

light
http://wysinger.homestead.com/harold-ford.jpg
http://cdn.blogs.sheknows.com/pregna...a-campbell.jpg
medium
http://myplay.com/files/imagecache/p...es/beyonce.jpg
http://www.sweetslyrics.com/images/i...r%20Hudson.jpg
dark
http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/upl...on-cheadle.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3331/3...f10_z.jpg?zz=1

Nice gradient, Its rather interesting that Beyonce is seen as medium by some. or do you just mean that picture?

The girl is quite fair to me, but its cool to see what others perceive

[Sxedlawb]

she's on the lighter side of the medium.. i think that photo is a bit saturated. by medium i mean neither dark or light, which is what most people would probably fall under. average basically. beyonce is light but she's not the lightest.

[Feflyinvelf]

Yea there is when you're not identifiably dark or light.

Wouldn't most mulattos be considered medium skin? I'm assuming mulattos to be around 50/50 Caucasian and SSA, and that most mulattos would express a phenotype somewhere inbetween the two parents.

[Qahtwugc]

she's on the lighter side of the medium.. i think that photo is a bit saturated. by medium i mean neither dark or light, which is what most people would probably fall under. average basically. beyonce is light but she's not the lightest.

I could see how someone could perceive her as on the lighter side of medium
Do you still think so in Less Dramatic lighting



Also who would be on the darker side of medium to you?

[LillyPlay]

Wouldn't most mulattos be considered medium skin? I'm assuming mulattos to be around 50/50 Caucasian and SSA, and that most mulattos would express a phenotype somewhere inbetween the two parents.

Probably, but again it's all subjective (on what you consider medium vs. light or dark) and like everyone else, mulattos can be either light, medium or darker skinned since skin tone is basically a crap shoot.

[jadabaad]

Wouldn't most mulattos be considered medium skin? I'm assuming mulattos to be around 50/50 Caucasian and SSA, and that most mulattos would express a phenotype somewhere inbetween the two parents.

Well most "mulattos" at least in the black community fall under light skinned , keep in mind many black folks (not all or even most) consider Jada pinkett light skinned. In general I think there are norms and categories but the less distinct you are skin tone wise the more subjecive it becomes.


JADA PINKETT

[maxtp]

Nigerian actress Monalisa Chinda(igbo) as extreme fair or lightskinned by igbo standards.



Pat utomi lightskinn but more color than Monalisa obviously, these people (both the male and female above)are referred to sometimes as YELLOW PAW PAW, well expression i hear from my father family again, however white people nearly across Nigeria is referred to as Oyibos, period!







I heard some of my father family called people with this color (above) a beautiful tan in other words, not extreme light nor dark, but a perfect tan. A ideal color or perfect color



not dark but more of a beautiful chocolate color.



This is darkskinned but some people may call him chocolate.




This is extremely dark skinn, this is according to my father family and what i used to hear. However, it is not in a negative connotation as i observe in comparison to New world blacks. All the people i used are Africans mainly from Nigeria, and the last guy is a Southern Sudanese model, Also none is mixed race they are all straight up Africans.


This is my opinion here or what i grew up hearing in reference to skin color descriptions.

[sbrscnds]

Yep. I don't consider myself light or dark. I'm just in between, so I'm medium-toned, or brown skinned.

Same here

[fhutiussk]

OMG, how do south Sudanese people manage to reach that shade???? :O