YOU'RE PRETTY TO BE SO DARK

This is something people always told me when I was growing up, as if my skin colour were some kind of handicap. My answer was to try and be the best dressed, best groomed woman in the room so that no one could deny that I was just as good as anyone else. Is it perhaps one of the forces behind my blog? Maybe so. I know logically that it's silly to determine your self-worth based on what other people think, but sometimes I need a reminder...