Exaggerating it may sound but you will turn yellow with jealousy if you see someone like my officemate walk by with white silky smooth skin.  Besides being young, she has this vibrancy in her that even her skin glows.   Well, even without asking you can tell that she is taking good care of herself, her drawer is almost full of beauty products; hand lotions, perfumes, make up.  She is indeed vain.

A fair and lovely officemate of mine

However, I feel perplexed why people put much weight on fair people than the darker ones. I think the problem is sticking to the older generation’s thinking.  Women are always seen beautiful on advertisement, media, etc so there is always pressure for other girls who are dark skinned.  The skin lightening industry currently spans the globe and more and more are patronizing whitening products that promises a fairer skin in just few weeks.

Everybody is beautiful in their own way and it doesn’t matter what the color of our skin are.    We just need to be contented and happy with what we’ve got.   And we should always remember that being beautiful is not only seen thru our skin color but with also with the heart and soul that make up the rest of our personality.

I am happy for my officemate.  She has good genes!