AussiePam;1261434 wrote: It's an interesting topic, Floppy.. Changing the colour of one's skin. I guess you could argue that certain skin tones hold more status in some places than other skin tones. Here I'm thinking of India - where I understand it best to be kind of golden, neither too pale nor too dark. Medieval European women wished to be as white as possible and used bleaches like lactic acid - milk baths. Some Asian women keep all sun off their faces... the tanned women are probably peasants. Western women often totally screw up their skin by tanning it to leather or painting themselves with darkening lotion "for that sunkissed blush".
Fashion? Wish to belong in what is perceived as the top echelons? Just basic insecurity and desire to be something different from what one is?
Did anyone else put lemon juice on their nose as a kid - to remove freckles????
What the heck??????
AND BY THE WAY....
Why are emoticons mostly yellow? Where are the well tanned emoticons...??? Sure there's a few sunburnt ones..... GEESCH
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Lemon juice - really? We used it to get golden highlites in our hair:wah:
yellow smiles is easy - Smiley Face History - Invention of the Smiley Face
the only other option would have been something along the lines of this:
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