tyra u brought a great topipc this is a touchy topic..im 16 years old nd dark-skinned growing up i get called names like burnt cookie,charcoal,black crayon,midnight,n many degrading names. i thought the names would stop because i m in high school and people would mature but they've gotten worser from darkness to dark veda.but i learn to love myself fo who i am and not let anyone get me down thanks to your show!i love you tyra!

i got to say im dark but im better looking than any one else

Beauty is not about the skin color. Be proud of yourself - dark skin or not - we are all beautiful. Never forget that! And don't care about what others say - you will find haters everywhere!!!!! Love Aida

It is so depressing at times when you hear of color consciousness within the African American community. I am a dark skinned African American woman and it is ridiculous how most if not all are treated. I have had conflicting compliments like, "you are so pretty...for a dark female". Are you kidding me, is this truly a compliment? I simply annoys me how people place your worthiness on your skin tone. I have a daughter that is much lighter and a son that is my compelxion and they are both beautiful children. I just hate the way that society views the darker skin people.

Im a very pale light skinned girl, and I love that about me, but I also think that dark skinned girls are beautiful to. I do believe that to be beaulitful you really need to have confidence in yourself and that will make more people see you as beautiful. The people who say "Oh you arent tan enough" or "Your to pale" to me just makes me laugh and so do the people that say dark skinned women are not beautiful. If you love your skin and you love your body, I think thats all that matters

Hi Tyra I’m a 17-year-old white girl and I’m writing a comment for the first time :D In my opinion, this is one of the most stupid questions I’ve ever heard! Is this what people should be thinking about these days? There are so many beautiful dark skinned female all around the world! As there are white or other colors… we have many celebrities’ examples! A black female… I’m writing her x) And she’s gorgeous! A white one… Kate Winslet, she has her own beauty, even without make-up. Lucy Liu… a fantastic Chinese girl who seems not to get old, never! WOMEN: WE ARE BEAUTIFUL, NO MATTER OUR COLOUR! We just have to prove ourselves that this is true, and believe in it. I have 99% sure that Tyra agrees with me :)

Hi Tyra I’m a 17-year-old white girl and I’m writing a comment for the first time :D In my opinion, this is one of the most stupid questions I’ve ever heard! Is this what people should be thinking about these days? There are so many beautiful dark skinned female all around the world! As there are white or other colors… we have many celebrities’ examples! A black female… I’m writing her x) And she’s gorgeous! A white one… Kate Winslet, she has her own beauty, even without make-up. Lucy Liu… a fantastic Chinese girl who seems not to get old, never! WOMEN: WE ARE BEAUTIFUL, NO MATTER OUR COLOUR! We just have to prove ourselves that this is true, and believe in it. I have 99% sure that Tyra agrees with me :)

I am an african american, and I love my black skin. People make so many degrading remarks about being dark, but there is abosutely nothign wrong with. Whenever people learn to love themselves, they will not worry about what others think.

im dark skinned and i love it but i recently heard about how the rapper young berg talked about how he dosent like dark skined females i was shocked but i still didnt regret b-n darker in all

I am a white 20 year old female. I think dark skin is beautiful!... if it's natural. Whether it be African American, Indian, half white and half black....whatever it is... it's gorgeous. I also think white skin is beautiful. For example: Scarlet Johansen (sorry if misspelled). She has fair skin and pulls it off elegantly. I, myself, have very fair skin....and I do go swimming and lay out...but it's to get a light golden tone for the summer. And it's alright cause it looks NATURAL...wow what a word....natural! My opinion for you white girlies that tan yourselves to the point that you're startin to look like a different ethnicticity... stop! You are so pretty the way you are! Let your TRUE self shine, baby! Same goes to you dark skinned ladies (and gents)... flaunt that gorgeous milk-chocolatey glow! Rawr! I love it!

im a beautiful dark skinned black south african young women and even though i know i am beautiful sometimes its hard especially when i am around lighter skinned people. it's a constant struggle as i always have to remind my self that i am beauiful and its hard but its the only way and it gets better over time as you realise you are more than just your skin tone yes its hard and yes its painful but the fact is you and i are dark skinned and nothing is going to change that so focus on the beautiful things you have like your eyes or your smile. one day at a time you begin to love that dark skin you begin too look past it some days are better than others but its either you let that dark skin take over your life or you enhance it you work with it and you love it one day at a time. i am a beautiful dark skinned black women who after many struggles has learnt to love her chocolate skin as after all it is my chocolate skin not yours but mine!!

I am bi-racial. My mother is black my father is white. I get my skin tone (olive when I'm not tan, carmamel when I am tan) from my mother but I get all my features from my father. I have a "white" nose for example. My top lip is "white" while my bottom lip is "black," I have "white girl" hair, with banana curls. I'm all over the place. People constantly are telling me that I'm gorgeous, I should model, etc. The thing is I rarely feel beautiful, or even a little pretty. Partly becasue it's the I'm 16 and awkward thing, and partly because ALL my friends are either white (one's half latina and one's part filipino but she has procelin skin) or korean because of where I live and go to school. I'm the darkest everywhere we go and I can feel different and all because of my skin color. I know I shouldn't feel this way and hopefully it will fade over time, but it's just a fact of life. A sad fact of life. People judge eachother from skin color. But something to point out is: White people spend all the time in the world tanning during the summer to get darker, People with darker coloring avoid the sun to not get darker. We all want to look different. And we all want to be accepted. The sooner we all realize that the better it will all be.

I am bi-racial. My mother is black my father is white. I get my skin tone (olive when I'm not tan, carmamel when I am tan) from my mother but I get all my features from my father. I have a "white" nose for example. My top lip is "white" while my bottom lip is "black," I have "white girl" hair, with banana curls. I'm all over the place. People constantly are telling me that I'm gorgeous, I should model, etc. The thing is I rarely feel beautiful, or even a little pretty. Partly becasue it's the I'm 16 and awkward thing, and partly because ALL my friends are either white (one's half latina and one's part filipino but she has procelin skin) or korean because of where I live and go to school. I'm the darkest everywhere we go and I can feel different and all because of my skin color. I know I shouldn't feel this way and hopefully it will fade over time, but it's just a fact of life. A sad fact of life. People judge eachother from skin color. But something to point out is: White people spend all the time in the world tanning during the summer to get darker, People with darker coloring avoid the sun to not get darker. We all want to look different. And we all want to be accepted. The sooner we all realize that the better it will all be.

Most people hate on us black people but its alright most white people try to be us whats the big earrings about the corn rows the sun tans all i say is be your damn self if no-one dont like it just look at them wave your hand an say "its nothin we made ya,you see me hi hater" I wouldnt care what a damn soul say about I love me cant walk around worrying and what the next chick is saying cause this is my life and i have to live it not no one else so if i want to walk around with the craziest clothes on might as well try it now only got one life to live.

I am an African woman, of milk chocolate complexion. I have ten siblings and we all have the same mother and father but we also come in different but beautiful shades of brown i.e lighter to darker tones. Not once, growing up in Kenya, was any of us made to feel that the lighter-skinned you were the better you were. We even used the term "black beauty" to refer to women who had flawless dark chocolate to black skin tones with very beautiful physical features and there are plenty of them where I come from and right here in the USA.In all, I have never had any problem noticing the beauty of dark-skinned women and I've many times wished I had their complexion if they had that beautiful flawless skin tone that lasts and lasts and lasts... Growing up I also had very light-skinned friends that looked bi-racial even though they were not, just the diversity of colored people. Like the dark-skinned women, some of them had beautiful physical features but some did not and one fact that stood out so clearly, no offense to light-skinned women, beautiful flawless skin that does not require makeup is unique to dark-skinned women. Another downside, my very light-skinned friends have aged considerably unlike their counterparts who still pass for years younger than they really are. I see dark-skinned women on Tyra's show crying about how all their lives they have felt ugly and I want to scream because I feel like some are even more beautiful than I am and yet I've been approached by dark and light-skinned black men, Latinos, a couple of Indians who probably just wanted a quickie, and several white guys. My choice had always been medium to dark-skinned men because I just love color in my man, and