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Originally Posted by *Shira*
I think a good place to start would be for every light-skinned person on this thread to abandon the use of words like "pale" and "pasty white" when describing herself, and instead substitute more positive sounding words like "alabaster". If we use positive-sounding words to describe ourselves, we'll imply to our listeners that our skin color is beautiful. The words "pasty white" do not sound beautiful, but "alabaster" does.
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Ah, but I used to run a store in Washington DC where the majority of my employees were women of various colours. They told me that I looked like a Cameo or a porcelain doll. Marie Osmond recently gave an interesting take on the later.
I have no problem with my white skin. hades, I am about to pay out large sums of money to help get it restored on places where there is sun damage. But I know that, when I am indulging in grave yard humour I am and will always be. . .
Fish belly white.
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