I Am a Pretty Dark Skinned Girl

I'm sitting here thinking about how far I've come since I been in college, and I can honestly say that I've definently matured mentally. Also, I've really began to appreciate who I am. Sure I don't have long hair or fair skin, but I...

I am a darkskin person and our generation being darkskin is not the first pick in a girl when I hear people saying lighskin girls are prettier than darkskin girls it really brings my confidence down and
Makes feel like no man will ever...

I went to mostly white and diverse school systems up until the age of ten or eleven.  Most of the white students and others lumped all black students together and there didn't seem to be any delineation between us.  I was just...

I am 15 yrs. old so I sadly live in the generation where if you do not have that "red bone/yellow bone" skin tone you are sexy. I have so many problems with these rappers out now of days who feel the need to diss Dark Skin Girls for no...

I find myself thinking about various things, but one thought in particular is being catered to, i.e. receiving flowers, massages, food already cooked, bath/shower water already running, etc. To be honest, I find that to be the most...

my name is ke'arra and i get offended all the time about light skinned women getting all the credit....one day i was in class and i saw this note that was in this boy binder and it said that he doesnt like dark skinned girls he only...

I feel like the sun resides beneath my skin. It loves the warmth. It loves to be nude and be under its rays. i love how dark it is. I would not have it any other way.
I have gone through the trails of having people be repulsed by my...

My name is kendall. im 18 years old and i too, struggle with my complexion. I used to get mad at the "light skinned" girls because they were so cocky and they would think there better than dark skinned girls. Most of my friends are dark...

Like some other people here I do have a pretty diverse group of friends..

I'm always told I'm really pretty ... for a dark girl. Or that I'm the only dark girl some of my non black male friends will respect.
At first that used to make...

Really don't care though.
I'm just me

To post here suggests that we live in places which are occupied by white people. That is certainly my case. I live in Moscow.
I am mostly East Slavian, (Russian) but 1/8th Azerbaijani but the Azerbaijani came right through with me alone...

I've come to realize that I have a mean streak at times, but I don't let that stop me from going out of my way to help someone or offer a few encouraging words to uplift their spirits. When I meet someone new and they give off positive...

Whenever I would see ANY lighter skinned female getting attention from the opposite sex, I immediately become angered and bothered because it makes me feel like I'm not worth talking to, let alone glancing at. Also, it makes me feel...

I am African American... I am not mixed nor light skinned... My skin is a fierce milk chocolate in the sun's observance...

Such a difficult concept to grasp beforehand.. Raised in a more so Caucasian community, my skin color hadn't...

Well I have many stories to share on my experience being a dark skin woman but I'm going to tell you all about what happend to me about 2 days ago..I was at work and this guy approaches me (a blk guy) a he says to me "wow ur really cute...

I HAVE STRUGGLED WITH MY COMPLEXION FOR A LONG TIME . I THINK THAT GOOD LOOKING GUYS ARE ATTRACTED TO LIGHTER SKINNED FEMALES. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND A GOOD FRIEND WHO FEELS WHERE IM COMING FROM IF ANYONE WANTS TO BE MY...

I'm a dark skinned Filipino, Hawaiian, Puerto Rican girl. All races [well, not Puerto Rican necessarily all the time] within me that made me dark-skinned. I actually like being this way. I actually think that the image of a white...