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As everywhere around the globe these days , there is a standardizing for beauty , we have an image that everyone wants to look like, and it's the same in Sudan.
Talking with many females during my stay there and being a part of a wedding preparation made me understand a little bit about the beauty standards in a city like Khartoum, a pretty girl is a light skin girl , which means in a city in the middle of the African continent with hot climate adding to this of course the African genes that has much melanin in it , girls has to do much work to keep their skin light ! so starting by using natural masks , covering the face and the hands , arriving to using chemical products based on cortisone that has as secondary effect the "de-pigmentation" which means taking the normal color from the skin !
but it's not just the skin , it goes to the eyebrows , the hair, the nails , even the color of the skin on the articulations like knee and elbow which are anatomically speaking darker in all races !
you walk in the street , you see girls looks like each other , the identity is gone because we are trying to reach a " perfect" image made by society or media , you open the Sudanese TV, all female presenters are looking alike , all from the same "type " of beauty !
I see that black skin has a unique charm , makes the eyes more expressive , more pure and more resistant to skin diseases as well !
Dark skin beauty was also not accepted in several countries around the world especially in American , in Europe as well and now it's moving to Arabic countries with mixed Arabic African genes though we don't have their problems , environment or culture !
i recommend watching the documentary " Dark Girls " : http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/
