NP1004
Registered: May 31, 2008
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Reply with quote | #16 |
Quote: Originally Posted by AvatarGirl7Quote: Originally Posted by RutitaQuote: Originally Posted by Athenas83
Usually black babies are light as newborns and get darker as they grow older. I think it has to do with the amount of melanin in the skin and that they're not fully developed yet. I am sure it's the same with a lot of biracial babies as well. I'm the same color as I was when I was a baby. My hair got darker though.
It's been the opposite for me. I was much darker as a baby/child. Alot of half-white mixies say they do get "lighter" or "whiter" as they get older.
I get lighter during de winter and darker during the summertime
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voodoo
Registered: Aug 15, 2007
Posts: 319
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When I was smaller I used to have REAAALLL straight hair...black eyes...and orange skin...and like everybody was sure that I was Asian. Then when I hit puberty my hair got thicker..and curlier..and coarser..and ...now its ...kinda a mix between curly and wavy...my skin got a lil lighter over the years...but my eyes have always been really really dark....my hair and skin are the only things that changed..mostly my hair tho
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AvatarGirl7
Registered: Jan 04, 2009
Posts: 83
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Reply with quote | #18 |
Quote: Originally Posted by NP1004Quote: Originally Posted by AvatarGirl7Quote: Originally Posted by RutitaQuote: Originally Posted by Athenas83
Usually black babies are light as newborns and get darker as they grow older. I think it has to do with the amount of melanin in the skin and that they're not fully developed yet. I am sure it's the same with a lot of biracial babies as well. I'm the same color as I was when I was a baby. My hair got darker though.
It's been the opposite for me. I was much darker as a baby/child. Alot of half-white mixies say they do get "lighter" or "whiter" as they get older.
I get lighter during de winter and darker during the summertime
Yeah that happens alot. Mostly due to depigmentation during the winter due to sun-blackage threrefore lack of melinan production. The sun uses a certain area of the brain called the penial (I think that's how you spell it) gland to keep the process of pigmentation of melinan going.
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OTHER
Registered: April 23, 2007
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Quote: Originally Posted by AvatarGirl7Quote: Originally Posted by OTHERMy story is almost as boring as tjbw's. 
I'm pretty sure I was born with brown eyes. They look brown in all pictures of me. I had brown eyes straight through high school. Although, in the summer if I was in the sun all day, they would turn a lighter brown, almost like a dark amber. Then, in college, they decided to start turning back and forth between green and brown like WHOOOOOOAAAAA, where did that come from!? I LIKED my brown eyes. Yeah, so one day in my twenties I realized they had settled on a two-toned look with brown near the pupil and olive green on the rest of the iris and there they have stayed ever since.  I still put BROWN! on my driver's license, though. I cling to that inner circle of brown by the pupil! hahaha
Also, and here's where mine is maybe a LITTLE less boring than tjbw's, haha, I did not have ANY freckles on my face as a child. No, I'm sorry, I had exactly three, on the lower part of my face. But, I started gaining freckles as a teenager and now I've got plenty of freckles across my nose and cheeks and on my forehead. You can see some of them in this pic, but there's really more than what shows up. Of course, you can see my crazy two-toned eyes, as well. 
Weird, my mother is like that too. Her eyes were always dark brown, nearly black-looking. Now they turn hazel and sometimes green. Must be b/c of electromagnetic energy throughout the body connecting with that of the environment.
 Yes, it must be that. 
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pinkdiamondgail
Registered: Jan 20, 2009
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arts09
Registered: Nov 25, 2006
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Reply with quote | #21 |
My skin color has stayed the same, very light. When I was born, the nurses thought I was a white baby, so they wouldn't let my mom see me uness my dad asked for me. The little bit of hair I was born with was red and completly straight. As it grew, it became curly and it's still red. My eyes were grey for a long time, and now they're brown. Members of my paternal side have grey eyes, and some who had brown eyes when they were younger grew up to have grey eyes. Mine change with lighting and sometimes look grey/blue, but hopefully they'll turn primarily grey again when I grow up. |
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OTHER
Registered: April 23, 2007
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Reply with quote | #22 |
Quote: Originally Posted by pinkdiamondgail
Does anybody know any one who is passing? Celebrity or non-celebrity?
I'd like to make two suggestions, pinkdiamondgail. I hope you don't mind.
One is that you start a new thread for your question, because it will probably spark a whole off-topic conversation.
The other is that you sign up for the Debate and Free Speech Message Board and post it over there.
I think this could evolve into an intense conversation and I fear that it is one that would be hard to keep strictly positive. Just my two cents. 
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dominicanmulatto
Registered: Oct 18, 2006
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My hair was a mixture of light brown/blonde when I was younger, now it is dark brown.... In my teens I tryed putting hydrogen peroxide in it to make it lighter again but all that did was kill my hair and now I have sort of a receding hairline... 
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ShirikaX
Registered: June 15, 2009
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Reply with quote | #24 |
Honestly when I watched a video of me after I was born, I looked like a fat Asian(preferably Japanese) baby boy. Haha, but it's true. My natural hair is super curly, brown black and red. My mother told me she had no clue what to do with my hair so it was mainly in pony tails.
Haha, genetics are really weird for Americans. My younger sister is brown and her eyes are slanted, y eyes are big and a bit slanted. I think we may have Asian blood, that would explain a lot. |
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ShirikaX
Registered: June 15, 2009
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Reply with quote | #25 |
Born: I looked like a big Japanese(yes Japanese) baby boy.
Growing Up: Super yellow, Middle Eastern looking eyebrows and super curly hair. Too many times people asked my mother was my mother.
Now: No more relaxer!!! If my hair is flat ironed, its mostly Latinos (Mexicans) who look at me questionably, and I speak Spanish, so its interesting.
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Ghost
Registered: Oct 10, 2009
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Reply with quote | #26 |
Quote: Originally Posted by ShirikaX
Born: I looked like a big Japanese(yes Japanese) baby boy.
Growing Up: Super yellow, Middle Eastern looking eyebrows and super curly hair. Too many times people asked my mother was my mother.
Now: No more relaxer!!! If my hair is flat ironed, its mostly Latinos (Mexicans) who look at me questionably, and I speak Spanish, so its interesting.
My sister and I are Sub-Saharan African, South Asian Indian, French, Irish, and Chinese. Both our parents are Jamaican and their parents are mixed. I also looked like an Asian baby. Lol. |
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Ghost
Registered: Oct 10, 2009
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Reply with quote | #27 |
Quote: Originally Posted by GhostQuote: Originally Posted by ShirikaX
Born: I looked like a big Japanese(yes Japanese) baby boy.
Growing Up: Super yellow, Middle Eastern looking eyebrows and super curly hair. Too many times people asked my mother was my mother.
Now: No more relaxer!!! If my hair is flat ironed, its mostly Latinos (Mexicans) who look at me questionably, and I speak Spanish, so its interesting.
My sister and I are Sub-Saharan African, South Asian Indian, French, Irish, and Chinese. Both our parents are Jamaican and their parents are mixed. I also looked like an Asian baby. Lol. I don't even remeber creating this post as "AvatarGirl7" |
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Shinynewthings
Registered: Aug 25, 2009
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Reply with quote | #28 |
I always thought that all black babies were born pale with straight hair. But an African American friend of mine had a baby recently and the newborn is quite dark. Is it that black babies who are born with straight hair and pale skin tend to have relatively higher levels of admixture than ones who are born dark? |
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PassingWoman
Registered: Aug 02, 2009
Posts: 68
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Reply with quote | #29 |
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I don't even remeber creating this post as "AvatarGirl7"
Hey Ghost! It's interesting though!
One thing.. I am very "white" (hence my name) but I notice that when I tan... I get dark... like dark DARK.
Other white people look "orange" to me, when they use a tanning booth. Most seem to just get red and then get flaky.
If I use a tanning booth.. I just get brown. I like that.
But I've also had big brown "blotches" on different parts of my body, all my life. (If I tan they all "even up")
~PW
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