Talk:Dark skin

Deep skin is as valid as fair skin

As long as fair skin is used in the light skin page, which gives positive bias towards light skin, deep skin can also be used in the dark skin page. 86.25.147.122 (talk) 08:29, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

*Can* and *should* are not the same thing - your suggested edit has been rejected by three separate editors now, so please get consensus here instead of continuing to WP:EDITWAR.

I've NEVER heard "deep skin" in all my life, whereas "fair skin" I've heard used many times over decades. If you can find enough published sources showing it's widely used then perhaps we can consider adding it as an "or", but I don't think it's in anywhere near enough common usage to be the main descriptor used in throughout the article... especially since "Dark" is literally in the title of the page.

Tobus (talk) 08:42, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I've also heard pale, so we can use that for light skin. 86.13.195.80 (talk) 08:51, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

https://www.makeup.com/product-and-reviews/concealer/best-color-correctors-deep-skin-tones

"a deep skin tone"

https://www.makeup.com/skin-care/skin-care-tips/whats-your-skin-tone#:~:text=Deeper%20and%20darker%20skin%20tones,don%27t%20forget%20the%20SPF.

"Deeper and darker skin tones range from copper and espresso tones to dark brown or ebony. In addition to the general tone, deep and dark skin can be cool, warm or neutral. "

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/beauty/skincare/a559931/skin-tone-colour-undertones-cool-warm-neutral/

"from pale and fair, to dark and deep."

https://www.soletoscana.com/blogs/artigiano/how-to-identify-your-skin-tone

"Dark – Deep complexion"

https://weheartthis.com/skin-color-names/

"Deep/dark — appears deep or dark-colored and tans fast when in the sun"

Deep is to dark skin what fair is to light skin. 86.25.147.122 (talk) 13:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I see. These are all examples from the beauty industry, talking about arbitrary "skin tones" and how to match them to makeup products. This is primarily a science-based article discussing biology and evolution and I don't think we should be using references like these as source material - and I'm not sure they'd qualify as reliable sources in any case. Tobus (talk) 13:38, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Why one particular kind of skin shade?

I do not understand why skin colour is not all on one page. If we look at all the possible skin colours, we can see it is not all light-to-dark in a single spectrum, skin colour changes due to certain events, such as tanning, embarrassment and being born with a lack of any skin coloring, and people, of course, get ill or grow old. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lublin Trev (talk • contribs) 09:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Invest Research

Whoever did the research for this article didn't do their homework. The only knowledge-fact this article relates to is melanin in dark skin. 2600:6C40:4A00:392:A554:4E4B:AA61:89B2 (talk) 20:05, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Spelling

I've just changed the spelling of "color" to "colour", as the article has the template {{Use British English}}, and currently does not use a consistent spelling. Looking at the first revision of this page, there are 12 mentions of "colour", and three of "color", where "colour" was used in the lead, so to fix the inconsistency, I think we should use the originally used spelling of colour. —Panamitsu (talk) 02:11, 26 February 2024 (UTC)