Dark skinned people are like the best and most beautiful people you’d ever meet(no offense to our light skinned friends) But we can’t deny the fact that Black is beautiful! Am dark skinned myself and am one of the cutest guys you’d ever meet

But there are some experiences that comes with being dark-skinned in a country like ours, especially a country where being an “oyinbo” is very celebrated. Am going to write down some experiences I had growing up as a dark-skinned person and am sure you’d be able to relate to a few or all of them.

1. BLACKY: People would tend to call you blacky especially when you are very dark-skinned. I didn’t experience this myself because am not that dark, am “chocolate” in complexion. However I have been around where a very dark skinned person is, and some people would just forget your name and replace it with blacky….. Black man…. Etc


2. GO AND TONE YOUR SKIN: This could be very annoying! Must I bleach my skin? When you are dark skinned, everyone around you becomes a skin care adviser… They would suggest the cream that you’d use to get a light tone….. They use the word “tone” when in reality it’s actually… Bleaching! Abeg I like my skin like this jare.

3. COMPARE YOU WITH YOUR LIGHT SKINNED FRIENDS: The ladies especially can relate to this. When that guy approaches you and you turn him down, he would let you know that you should be happy that he even approached you, instead of your light skinned friend. The comparison can be killing! Just don’t get any low self esteem because of this comparisons. Black is very beautiful.


4 YOU GET LESSER ATTENTION: This again is very common to the ladies. Whenever you are walking with your friend, all the guys attention would be On the light skinned girl. I don’t know what is wrong with African men and light skinned ladies. The bad part is that some of the men even running after the light skinned ladies, are dark skinned sef! Mtchew

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Black is beautiful
Africa! Awhu!




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