This is me!

Colour of My Skin

It's been going on for a long time. Michael Jackson had that problem. It seems that people (especially the dark ones) are not satisfied with the colour of their skin.

There's a phrase that says that beauty is only skin-deep. But hey, looks like no one believes in it, not the men and the women as well. So who coined that phrase? A woman?

So why am I writing this? Well, I was watching TV yesterday and I saw this commercial featuring a face cream. It starts with this guy telling that he had seen this girl around campus. She was okay looking but you know, not outstanding enough. What a jerk! Where 's his brains, in his shoes?

Well, anyway, it continues with him saying that he saw her after graduation and whoaaaaa .... she was different!

Guess what happened! She comes on screen saying that she always wanted to have fairer and smooth skin. That's when she found the product. Then she says that suddenly everyone started noticing her and there was this guy who never talked to her in college asked her out.

Geez, what a sucker! If a guy never so much as looked at me before and now, just because my skin got fairer, he's asking me out?! No way am I going out with him. Take a hike, buster!

People, or should I say, women, get a grip on your life. What's the deal with lightening or whitening your skin. Stop this obsession of wanting to be white or fair. If God wanted you to be white, he would have made you white.

Okay, I would agree that these stuff do give women the confidence but at what price, hard-earned money spent on stuff like these that cost a bomb (maybe I am stretching it a bit)?

If a guy can't get beyond the outer layer, especially your dark skin, well, that's his loss. I would say he is just not worth it. Well, that was what I told my boyfriend in the beginning.

And sometimes, do you ever stop to wonder whether that stuff is good for your skin in the long run when you decide to stop using it?

I went shopping with a longtime friend and she was buying a facial wash which cost RM20. She asked me what I used and I said soap and water which was what my mom used and she's got great complexion til today.

I am tan coloured, I would say and yes, sometimes I wish I was fair but I am not. So I have to deal with it, it's part of being me and I have got a boyfriend who is so much fairer than I am who does not care about the colour of my skin or the years that divide us.

An old ex-housemate once told me that although I have bugs bunny teeth but it is that which makes me memorable. It's my shade of colour and my quirky looks which makes me different so why change my colour to be fair like the rest of the population. Let's be original and break out of what society or rather, what the manufacturers would have us believe, that fair is beautiful.