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[Lucy Glitter]

Morganlafey wrote...

Michael Jackson anyone?

OMG! Your avatar does look like Micheal Jackson! I think you meant to post in the Character Creator section, though.

[Morganlafey]

LOL! My character's nose is too proeminent for an M.J. lookalike. I was refering to whitening of the skin... Poor M.J. was a prime exemple of how racial fads/prejudices/acceptance can push someone to do crazy things to themselves. Love and self-acceptance is the only way. I think Humans are the only species that tend to a desire for uniformity as a blueprint for beauty and acceptance... Nature, by design, is based on individuality (Gawd! I'm starting to sound like Morrigan!!)

[Tyrax Lightning]

Rheannan wrote...

XaintMP wrote...

Ooh, that is scary.  It's a shame the kind of pressures society puts on people to look or act a certain way.

Agreed. People really do need to just be happy with themselves the way they are.

Tyrax Lightning wrote...

Spend your money on something USEFUL, like puder upgrades.

Books! ../../../images/forum/emoticons/grin.png

Yeah, books work too!

[Demyx_IX]

No it's not worth it. You'll just look worse and besides, you was born with the skin you have. Be original, rather than a fool like anyone else that have done skin lightening.

[Brass_Buckles]

Morganlafey wrote...

LOL! My character's nose is too proeminent for an M.J. lookalike. I was refering to whitening of the skin... Poor M.J. was a prime exemple of how racial fads/prejudices/acceptance can push someone to do crazy things to themselves. Love and self-acceptance is the only way. I think Humans are the only species that tend to a desire for uniformity as a blueprint for beauty and acceptance... Nature, by design, is based on individuality (Gawd! I'm starting to sound like Morrigan!!)

Actually Michael Jackson had an incurable skin condition which resulted in patchy skintone that eventually faded to white all over.  He might have bleached his skin at some point to cover this up--that I don't know.  However, during all that fuss after his death, the skin condition was mentioned more than once.

In any case, I say don't lighten or darken your skin to a tone it wasn't naturally meant to be.  Tans are basically full-body scars and a means of courting melanoma--if you get one naturally by being outdoors doing stuff, then that's one thing, but actively trying to get one isn't such a good idea.  They even say now that tanning beds are more dangerous than actually going outside and lying in the sun.  This skin-lightening treatment doesn't sound any better, not if it can burn into your skin and change the pigmentation so greatly (I did read the linked articles).  Chemicals that can do that kind of thing can also probably cause cancer.  Just my two cents.

[Rooen]

Its kinda the same thing as plastic surgery...or long lasting cover makeup I guess. Depends on what you mean by 'worth it' cause its not 'worth' anything really. If you want to do it then do it. But as someone said before me, go purple

[Juhy]

If you are dark you should move nearer to the equator. If you are pale you should move further away from it.
You don't have to stay in a country you don't like, around people you don't like, doing things you don't like. Money is not a problem.

Oh, also, if you are of one race and change your skin colour, you won't look like another race. Youll just look like a miscoloured person of the race you are. Just,.. you know..

Modifié par Juhy, 29 décembre 2009 - 04:19 .

[Tirigon]

You should do whatever you like. I however doubt that this is possible. Anyways, better than going to the sun studio to get darker skin.

[mrofni]

I don't have a problem with cosmetic surgeries, so long as you aren't constantly doing it. If how you look is keeping you from happiness, then I say go for it and change it. Why should how you look stand in the way of being happy? Now, if you keep getting cosmetic surgery because you aren't happy with how you look, then I would seriously suggest a different path. A one time surgery isn't as terrible as you're all making it out to be though.

[Morganlafey]

Brass_Buckles wrote...

Morganlafey wrote...

LOL! My character's nose is too proeminent for an M.J. lookalike. I was refering to whitening of the skin... Poor M.J. was a prime exemple of how racial fads/prejudices/acceptance can push someone to do crazy things to themselves. Love and self-acceptance is the only way. I think Humans are the only species that tend to a desire for uniformity as a blueprint for beauty and acceptance... Nature, by design, is based on individuality (Gawd! I'm starting to sound like Morrigan!!)

Actually Michael Jackson had an incurable skin condition which resulted in patchy skintone that eventually faded to white all over.  He might have bleached his skin at some point to cover this up--that I don't know.  However, during all that fuss after his death, the skin condition was mentioned more than once.

In any case, I say don't lighten or darken your skin to a tone it wasn't naturally meant to be.  Tans are basically full-body scars and a means of courting melanoma--if you get one naturally by being outdoors doing stuff, then that's one thing, but actively trying to get one isn't such a good idea.  They even say now that tanning beds are more dangerous than actually going outside and lying in the sun.  This skin-lightening treatment doesn't sound any better, not if it can burn into your skin and change the pigmentation so greatly (I did read the linked articles).  Chemicals that can do that kind of thing can also probably cause cancer.  Just my two cents.

Yes, I know... It's called vitiligo. One of my African American friend form high school had this condition. She never went through the drama of wanting to bleach her skin to even everything out though, simply because she never caved in to preconceptions of "socially accepted beauty" (i.e. she couldn't care less what other folks thought.) In M.J.'s case, the poor old chap is caught between a rock and a hard place... Being in the public eye as he was, the pressure of acceptance and beauty is beyond great. Goes back to what I was saying... Society puts massive pressure on physical attributes and what it judges as beauty, and some people go to great lengths to "fit in."

Modifié par Morganlafey, 29 décembre 2009 - 09:13 .

[CaptainZaysh]

MrHimuraChan wrote...

PS: Is it possible to darken your skin?

Yes.  Go outside from time to time.

[Morganlafey]

MrHimuraChan wrote...

PS: Is it possible to darken your skin?

Exposing yourself to the sun in small doses is okay (we need the vitamin D) but if you are seriously deficient in melanin, you'll burn and/or get some serious freckles (not to mention the potential for melanomas and carcinomas.)

[Benfea]

SleeplessInSigil wrote...

I've read a lot of comments that say skin lightening it's worth getting? If so, why not? I'd appreciate a detailed reason instead of something like "white MJ sucks" as i'm prolly going to delete my melanin and redo my image based on the responses I get. Thanks in advance.

Uncle Ruckus? Is that you? You can't become a white person unless Ronald Reagan elevates you to White Person Heaven when you die.

Modifié par Benfea, 31 décembre 2009 - 03:20 .

[Tyrax Lightning]

Morganlafey wrote...

Goes back to what I was saying... Society puts massive pressure on physical attributes and what it judges as beauty, and some people go to great lengths to "fit in."

More human stupidity hard at work.  Such things came from primal programming to aid our survival long ago when we were rocks-for-brains apes, but ever since we've been in our 'human' stage of our evolution, we have seriously screwed up a LOT of nature's safeguards & borked a lotta stuff up.

This is such an example, there's sick puppies out there that abuse the (stupid) idea of beauty bein everything for their own gain. Want examples? Make-up producing companies marketing their products & advertising their stuff in ways that can be read between the lines as 'You have to give us your money to get our products & use them or your beauty has no choice to suck because WE say so!' & 'You must wear this exact fashion that only we can sell you or you have no choice but to be a ugly stupid bumpkin!' & who do these people think they are thinking they can decide what's acceptable or what's not, & they don't get to call people names because of those people bein content with normal clothes, or bein poor.

Once again, repeated for emphasis, theres no such thing as a wrong skin color.

Us humans aren't thinkers, are we? Does anyone ever see Wolf Packs dedicating their entire lives to trying to screw up the survival of their own species? Or Sharks throwing trash into the enviroment & not even trying to see the consequences? Sheesh.

I hope I wasn't too ranty there, rantiness is one of my downs.

Modifié par Tyrax Lightning, 01 janvier 2010 - 04:36 .

[Thibbledorf26]

SleeplessInSigil wrote...

I've read a lot of comments that say skin lightening it's worth getting? If so, why not? I'd appreciate a detailed reason instead of something like "white MJ sucks" as i'm prolly going to delete my melanin and redo my image based on the responses I get. Thanks in advance.

If you are an adult and you would feel happier about changing your skin colour, then it's your choice. Political correctness and the Western sensibilities of people in this forum will result in anger and outrage spewed at you. But it is your choice, it doesn't mean you are evil or racist, it just means for some reason you want to change your skin colour. You need to think about why you want to do it and whether it is worth it.

Personally I do NOT think you should do it and I do not think it is worth it. I think you should be happy with your God-given skin tone, besides surgery can have nasty side effects. I am not sure where you are from, but in some developing Asian countries women desire lighter skin tones, it is probably the inferiority complex and forced values resulting from being conquered by European empires in the past, and seeing lighter skinned people favoured. It's probably not a good idea to change your body for a stupid piece of historical inertia like that.

Becoming lighter skinned won't make you better looking, there are many horrible looking and average looking people who are fair skinned. Infact having a tanned complexion could make you the object of envy in the solarium-infused Western world. Beauty is more about proportion and health in my opinion. If you are having self-esteem problems, improve your diet and drink plenty of water. Use reliable skin creams to keep your skin smooth. Exercise regularly to create a good physique. Maybe get a new hairstyle or change your grooming and attire. These are more wholesome ways to improve one's looks, as long as you don't get swallowed up by the pressure to be anorexic or to continually buy expensive clothes; perpetrated by magazines and media.

[SleeplessInSigil]

Ah I thought this thread had gotten deleted.  I was just peeved with all the people misspelling "lightning;"
http://social.biowar.../9/index/496190

My apologies to those who took this seriously. <3