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fair
having very little color, coloring, or pigmentation
What white or
where one part of
the anatomy is
met with light and
due to human
skin's reflectivity
and white human
skin's clarity
that light is mirrored throughout
fair skin
amounts to is a house of mirrors
clarity enables light to travel great distances unfettered
The most accurate comparison would
in fact be snow. There are thousand of
surfaces. One of those surfaces catches
the light at exactly the right angle and,
since snow is both crystal clear and
reflective, the whole pile of
snow lights up like a Christmas tree.
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Highlights 100-70
Midtones 69-50
Shadow 0-49
White people lack contrast
White people are backlit.
At any given point,
they are contending with
competing, simultaneous
light sources.
Run the Jewels
Except for wallflowers.
A perfect black?
Once the light goes in, next to nothing comes out.
Things that are too reflective and too shallow and too vibrant to be dark
black skin
your cell phone
Inside the skin of the dragonfish, light is redirected by melanosomes towards melanosomes. Each interaction with a melanosome dims the light somewhat until a perfect black is achieved. Nothing is reflected away from the dragonfish.
Blackness, for the dragonfish,
is perpetual scattering
Once you go black,
99.9 % of light never comes back
dim
Faintly or unclearly perceived; indistinct
Black skin is more
about misdirection. Light ricochets between melanosomes for a while but then it scatters outward.
Black skin is indeed reflective. The only caveat is that
the light is not being reflected to your eye.
The hole looks black because
the light that escapes isn't being reflected
towards the observer.
This is not a product of absorption.
This is scattering.
Light reaches the surface and is obstructed, preventing
its return. The light is redirected in between the lace
pattern until it eventually veers off.
This wayward light avoids the observer.
As a result, the wearer's skin looks devoid, black and indistinct.
Maison Margiela
lace front wigs are the blackest thing on the planet.
They are completely indistinct.
The most accurate
comparison for melanin
structure in black skin would
be pantyhose or lace.
Black girl magic!!
Black not Dark
by The Colour Scheme
The light never reaches your eye unless...
2 Experiments
Experiment #1
Steps
2. Put your eye up to a mirror
1. Be Black
3. Look into your own eye using the mirror
What color were your eyes?
Mine were amber.
Experiment #2
Steps
1. Download a .jpg of a white person
2. Look up at your computer from the ground
3. That's what it'd look like if that person were black
Your computer has a liquid crystal
display that is intended to be viewed at eye level.
If you change the viewing angle,
most of the light behind your computer screen does not reach your eye.
Consequently, everyone looks melanated.
results
Melanin scatters light. This light does not reach
the observer's eyes unless..
The observer was quite near or at precisely the right angle.
It's all about those angles.
What would happen if you put your eye up to the hole?
White people ain't bad.
More to the point, white people do not have
a bad side.
There are exceptions. At the right angle,
some snowbunnies can go from yokel to SoCal.
DA BADDEST BEACH.
True Winter are on permanent island time.
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