Enjoy Your Type of Beauty – It is Special and Unique!
Author: Lamaro Schoenleberbr
Source: ezinearticles.combr
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In Africa, in many tribes, light-skinned women are especially admired. In some tribes, a higher bride-price was paid for a light-skinned woman. This has led many women to bleach their dark skin, sometimes using very dangerous chemicals.
However, light skin shows signs of ageing faster than dark skin. It looks very good when one is young, but looks less attractive as the face loses volume, or as the face develops lines and wrinkles over time. In contrast, dark skin ages very well, hardly showing signs of aging. Well-nourished with moisturisers, it can look very good for very long.
Besides, light skin is prone to pigmentation irregularities, especially as it ages, such as different kinds of warts, livers spots and so on. Such pigmentation irregularities do not show up on dark skin. Moreover, excellent make-up has now been developed for dark skin, such that looking good with dark skin is now just as easy as with light skin. For example, dark skin can wear gold and silver like no other skin colour.
Not to mention that dark skin has very good protective qualities against dangerous suns rays. So stop wishing away your dark skin or bleaching it – enjoy its advantages!
Some women are tall and elegant, with what is called models height. Good for them. But petite women who are below models height can wear certain tailored pieces better than models. Certain tailored suits and some versions of the original little black dress look best on the proportional petite woman, and not on the elongated model.
Additionally, the petite women bring out the protective instinct in all the males in the vicinity, in a way that a model cannot.
Fashion designers prefer bone-thin women to wear their clothes. In real life however, I have never seen a pleasantly curvy woman who is single unless she wants it that way. A lot of men are just not convinced about the model as the beauty ideal, and without admitting it aloud, are still attracted to the more endowed woman. Like I already said, I do not have any pleasantly plump friends who are not the object of somebodys desire.
Hair has never been the defining attribute for beauty in Africa, simply because a lot of women have rather less of it than they would like. But in the modern society, long hair is starting to play a big role. African woman with short hair or hair that grows slowly may feel disadvantaged.
Happily, there are now so many styling options for women with short hair. And I do not mean just hair extensions or weaves. There are all sorts of new, hip styles that only look good on short hair.
From the Caucasian point of view, everyone claims that blondes have more fun, or that gentlemen prefer blondes. Good for them. But Americas Sweetheart, and the woman commanding the most money per film at the moment are both dark-haired. It just goes to show you: your particular type of beauty – whether dark or light-skinned, dark or light-haired, tall or petite, slim or curvy – is special and unique, and appeals to someone somewhere.
My own personal experience? My skin could be called light, especially when I am in Europe. I loved it when I was younger. Now, however, I notice that the spots and pigments that have accumulated on it are there to stay. When I am in Africa, my skin gets darker, and looks more even. I actually prefer the darker version.
I was raised in an African country where light skin was the better skin. But I will never forget the first time I saw a dark Rwandese woman. I stood stock still in the middle of the street: I was overwhelmed by so much perfection – the height, the walk, the features – all covered in a perfect, very dark skin. I felt the same when I saw women from southern Sudan – so dark, but so beautiful!
I have two tall, dark and handsome brothers who have no time of day for models. They prefer tiny, petite, helpless women. The moral? Whatever your type of beauty, enjoy it. It IS special and unique, and someone somewhere loves it.
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pMy name is Lamaro Schoenleber. I am female, African, and live in Germany with my husband. I hold a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and remain active as a therapist and researcher, though currently battling a life-changing and debilitating chronic illness. I am attached to Mbarara university of Science and Technology as a lecturer and researcher into clinical and educational Psychology. I love to write, especially about real life situations mostly related to Psychology./ppI used to be merely knowledgeable, but due to my own experiences with chronic (and maybe eventually terminal) illness, migration, forced migration due to war, therapy and teaching experiences, I have discovered a depth of experience that adds real life confirmation to knowledge. This has proved to be persuasive to a lot of people, including my patients. In my opinion, knowledge is most persuasive when it gets personal, and this is what I try to do in my writing./pbr
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