#63591
04/03/2002 12:02 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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At work we had to serve some court notices from the US on Indonesian firms. The form with the notices asked for descriptive details of the person receiving the notice. One of the details they asked for was skin colour (or color). As the notices were served by an Indonesian, we had a high old time assessing skin colours of people we knew and then trying to evolve a common vocabulary that would be reasonably meaningful for the recipient of the forms back in the US.
In English all I could think of was the obvious black, white, brown, yellow, olive, sallow, tanned.
Indonesian terms have white and black/dark, but otherwise seem to refer to fruit, e.g., ripe sawo.
Can anyone come up with more words to describe skin colour rather than race?
Bingley
Bingley
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#63592
04/03/2002 12:36 PM
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Schoolgirl pink
Programmer's tan (white)
Dusky
Wan
Lobster
Peachy
Charcoal
Chocolate
Coffee
Palomino
Albino
Freckley
Rare
Medium
Well done
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#63593
04/03/2002 12:55 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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beached whale (something i can be likened to!)
pale
creamy
peaches and cream
peachy
rose
ruddy
olive (light olive, dark olive)
dusky
yellow (and high yellow)
beige
tawny
chocolate
umber
seina
mahagony
cafe au lait
coffee
coal black (or blue black)
ebony
i remember seeing in a dermatologist office, a set of tiles, with 56 colors.i think it was 56, it was a large, but manageable number-- any of our doctors out there familiar with these? since skin tone is created by melonin, the palest was 0 melonin, (albino) and the darkest was full saturation- i was tile number 4. (and my daughter is paler than i am, but not the pales person i have ever seen, non albino, so i guess she is 3,)i was in for a body scan, with skin as fair as mine, skin cancer is a concern.
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#63594
04/03/2002 2:39 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Rouge, Kohl, tattoed, powderd and painted.
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#63595
04/03/2002 4:41 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Mottled, piebald, freckled.
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#63596
04/03/2002 8:45 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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My makeup base is ivory, the palest one they make.
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#63597
04/03/2002 8:49 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Sparteye: And does ivory based make-up enhance your proverbial elephantine memory?
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#63598
04/03/2002 9:01 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I'm afraid, Dr Bill, that it is not my memory which is elephantine. 
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#63599
04/03/2002 11:27 PM
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makeup base is ivory
Along the same lines, my make-up base is porcelaine (it's a French brand, could you guess?) and others I've seen are: buff, sable, alabaster, amber, pastel, apricot and coral.
C'mon ladies and men, if you are that way inclined  ... not that there's anything wrong with that drag out your foundation. The names of those are quite skin colour descriptive.
Hev
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#63600
04/03/2002 11:27 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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fair
BTW...in Victorian times (at least here in the US) it was customary for ladies of polite society to carry parasols to keep the sun off them, because only the laboring classes had tans from working out in the sun.
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#63601
04/04/2002 1:20 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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#63602
04/04/2002 1:50 AM
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OK, here we go! Foundation colors from one particular world wide brand: I will not name the brand.
Natural Ivory
Clasic Ivory
Ivory Beige
Soft Bisque
Natural Cream
Almond Beige
Warmest Beige
Blush Beige
Golden Caramel
Natural Fawn
Deep Tan
Honey Beige
Rich Honey
Beautiful Bronze
Toast
Mahogany
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#63603
04/04/2002 1:13 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Soft Bisque? How can bisque be soft?
Bingley
Bingley
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#63604
04/04/2002 1:53 PM
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Natural Ivory
Clasic Ivory
Ivory Beige
Soft Bisque
Natural Cream
Almond Beige
Warmest Beige
Blush Beige
Golden Caramel
Natural Fawn
Deep Tan
Honey Beige
Rich Honey
Beautiful Bronze
Toast
MahoganyMMMMmmmmmmmm...... Almond and rich honey toast with Golden caramel and natural cream bisqueYum! You wear it, I'll eat it!
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#63605
04/04/2002 3:45 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Almond and rich honey toast with Golden caramel and natural cream bisque ...Yum!
You wear it, I'll eat it!
Hilarious, Rubrick! Ogden Nash's take on the subject (excerpted):
Some singers sing of ladies’ eyes, / And some of ladies lips,
Refined ones praise their ladylike ways, / And course ones hymn their hips.
The Oxford Book of English Verse / Is lush with lyrics tender;
A poet, I guess, is more or less / Preoccupied with gender.
Yet I, though custom call me crude,
Prefer to sing in praise of food.
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Some painters paint the sapphire sea, / And some the gathering storm.
Others portray young lambs at play, / But most, the female form.
'Twas trite in that primeval dawn / When painting got its start,
That a lady with her garments on / Is Life, but is she Art?
By undraped nymphs / I am not wooed;
I’d rather painters painted food.
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#63606
04/04/2002 4:40 PM
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veteran
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Well done
Impatiently I once asked one of my smart-ass, Indian buddies, "Are you *done* yet?" He responded by raising his arms, looking closely at the back of each hand, and with a big smile saying "Why, yes, I believe I am!"
My kids contribute
brownish-orangeish-yellowish (one word to describe their mom's color)
and
peachish-yellowish (to describe their own)
k
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