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So! I making this little journal to just ramble about stuff. How Society carries into the art world and the backlash affects it can have from other peoples view that other people may not realize. I know maybe I said other things before here and there. I'm just going more into it I guess.

As summer approaches "thank goodness its about to get hot" what you will probably see tons of and tons going on is tan skin characters now a lot see nothing wrong with this. Just like a lot of people may not see nothing wrong with skin bleaching become lighter. Although first it starts with society. Now in Europe they created a new tan where you can get dark skin tan like.

So you will see tons of woman spraying their selves to get dark completions all over their body till you get to a bikini line.
What does this have to do with the art world? This also goes into the art world as many people will draw this on their characters and its almost like a slap in the face to people such as myself who think this is a character of color till you read the tag. It will say tan character or gyaru 90% of the time. I do appreciate the work when I do see characters that are actually of color with the right tags. What is crazy now for me is that most of the makeups I usually wear as brown or beige have now changed to tan brown or tan beige. Basically changing all brown tones and adding tan in front of it for people who are tanning to achieve to get brown skin. Although I am aware that more expensive brands such as Mac products, which I do have a lot of! Come in numbers to match the skin tone.

But Choco, why is this bothering you? Well when you do see some people that actually have dark skin characters and they are tan and they appear to look a certain way, but you still call them the same race as the other characters, Caucasian or ect. It makes it look like either, culture theft or its like a nice way of saying I want them to look like they are of color but they are not of color.

But chocolate, They are not African decent, they are Latino, Brazilian, Olive skin Italian, ect.
first Off, those are nationalities/ethnics, which means that is not their race. Majority when people title stuff like this means it can be anything. The people who do have melanin in their skin of those categories do not tan . So that would exempt them from even being titled tan.

Why does it bother people of color so much? It is because even in today's society it is still pushed that lighter/whiter your skin is the more beautiful. That has been the standard hundreds of years for America, Europe, and now even parts of Africa this is now being pushed in. Korea is the biggest seller and believe in bleaching the skin, also other counties like India and Philippians. To fit in on this agenda.

So then you now have the thought in process after years of being degraded in your natural skin and you have majority now bleaching. It does hurt when I see this. It is not because that is what is in style or new trend like Japan, It is because people feel like who they are as a person is ugly or they are not liked by others, hated for how they appear to people. So you do transform yourself to become what everyone wants to see. D: omg why..

They say tanning is part of the beauty of fashion, certain skin tone to go with the body to look a certain way. Or is it just another way of looking like a person without calling yourself that. The same goes into the art world. D: When creating your characters think on societies view.

It does hurt to see the contradiction of skin beauty and people die to change their skin color. What was known as ugly/degrading is now beauty in a spray can tan.
Tan is the new dark brown, brown, beige. These colors have been changed to tan colors so the
people who do change their experience have no self hate.

Be yourself!
And artist! Research before you make a character of another race of anytype!
style, culture.

Brown is not a tan!
P.S Do not bleach D: be your beautiful self, the way you are!

:D (Big Grin) — Description
So! I making this little journal to just ramble about stuff. How Society carries into the art world and the backlash affects it can have from other peoples view that other people may not realize. I know maybe I said other things before here and there. I'm just going more into it I guess.

As summer approaches "thank goodness its about to get hot" what you will probably see tons of and tons going on is tan skin characters now a lot see nothing wrong with this. Just like a lot of people may not see nothing wrong with skin bleaching become lighter. Although first it starts with society. Now in Europe they created a new tan where you can get dark skin tan like.

So you will see tons of woman spraying their selves to get dark completions all over their body till you get to a bikini line.
What does this have to do with the art world? This also goes into the art world as many people will draw this on their characters and its almost like a slap in the face to people such as myself who think this is a character of color till you read the tag. It will say tan character or gyaru 90% of the time. I do appreciate the work when I do see characters that are actually of color with the right tags. What is crazy now for me is that most of the makeups I usually wear as brown or beige have now changed to tan brown or tan beige. Basically changing all brown tones and adding tan in front of it for people who are tanning to achieve to get brown skin. Although I am aware that more expensive brands such as Mac products, which I do have a lot of! Come in numbers to match the skin tone.

But Choco, why is this bothering you? Well when you do see some people that actually have dark skin characters and they are tan and they appear to look a certain way, but you still call them the same race as the other characters, Caucasian or ect. It makes it look like either, culture theft or its like a nice way of saying I want them to look like they are of color but they are not of color.

But chocolate, They are not African decent, they are Latino, Brazilian, Olive skin Italian, ect.
first Off, those are nationalities/ethnics, which means that is not their race. Majority when people title stuff like this means it can be anything. The people who do have melanin in their skin of those categories do not tan . So that would exempt them from even being titled tan.

Why does it bother people of color so much? It is because even in today's society it is still pushed that lighter/whiter your skin is the more beautiful. That has been the standard hundreds of years for America, Europe, and now even parts of Africa this is now being pushed in. Korea is the biggest seller and believe in bleaching the skin, also other counties like India and Philippians. To fit in on this agenda.

So then you now have the thought in process after years of being degraded in your natural skin and you have majority now bleaching. It does hurt when I see this. It is not because that is what is in style or new trend like Japan, It is because people feel like who they are as a person is ugly or they are not liked by others, hated for how they appear to people. So you do transform yourself to become what everyone wants to see. D: omg why..

They say tanning is part of the beauty of fashion, certain skin tone to go with the body to look a certain way. Or is it just another way of looking like a person without calling yourself that. The same goes into the art world. D: When creating your characters think on societies view.

It does hurt to see the contradiction of skin beauty and people die to change their skin color. What was known as ugly/degrading is now beauty in a spray can tan.
Tan is the new dark brown, brown, beige. These colors have been changed to tan colors so the
people who do change their experience have no self hate.

Be yourself!
And artist! Research before you make a character of another race of anytype!
style, culture.

Brown is not a tan!
P.S Do not bleach D: be your beautiful self, the way you are!