[Wired Wierd]

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>>@ Wired Wierd
>>I totally agree with you....plus did you notice that they
>are
>>all light skinned women which by the way automatically
>>translates to beautiful women. I never get why people equate
>>darker skin with ugliness...really I dont. Yes they are
>>beautiful I agree but would they still be the same beautiful
>>women if they had Alek Weks complexion???
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>True,
>I guess, we shud not look at both extremes pekee....dont
>reject all dark skinned mamas then select the light ones, or
>the other way around. But what is being done by the judges of
>mnet face of Africa is choosing the africanest of the
>afrcanest....which i think is good, becuz hey, its the "face
>of AFRICA" , but at the same time, its unfair, coz not all
>african mamas look like what a western dude would think of as
>being "typically african". Some have slightly longer hair, or
>lighter skin, but whats the sin in that??? Not all mamas
>bleach their skin to be light, or weka weaves to have longer
>hair. Some are naturally just THAT, and I dont understand why
>they should be sidelined.

See now that is where the western influence comes in. It's ironic though, if you look at all the previous Faces of Africa and most of widely known african models, you'll see they are all dark with short hair and just damn tall. Look at most beauty peagants locally and kila msichana is lightskinned, long hair (fake or not) etcetera etcetera. So the question begs; Is it the west that has it all wrong on what we consider beautiful, or do africans strive to attain the "western" image of beauty as we perceive it. In my personal view, they both have it partly mixed up.

I liked the concept that a certain company came up with. I believe it was called "Lux somethingortheother." Take your everyday african women, wives and mothers of whatever age (they had to be naturally pretty ofcourse) and give them a makeover and let the public vote.

Anyway this issue can be debated till the chicken come home to roost, but the bottomline is that it's all about what brings in the bacon.