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Brownbeauty123
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 03:08 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Everyone keeps saying how awful she looks now..











seems blown out of proportion.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 03:17 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BB123,

Except for the last photo, from the neck up she looks fine.

But what's with the B-Boy get-up?

JEEZ!
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 03:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

A good majority of "black" people are niggers...so they don't know what a black person should look like.

For instance, if I straighten and curl my hair, flowing around my face---a whole lot of people who claim I'm ugly---will suddenly say how pretty I am, because I now remind them of THE LOOK.



If I put on braids or an afro--they suddenly can't see my facial features, my smile or my smooth complexion. Only that I have a "Mannish" look, because my hair is African.

Lauryn looks gorgeous. She's an extraordinarily beautiful woman.

Because of women who look like her---the FINEST black men come into the world.







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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 03:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The forums that I lurk at, were talking about how "awful" she looks as if she suffered from a terrible trainwreck that left her face disfigured. Eventually, they dogged her out so much that I clicked on the link and found out how much they exaggerated her current appearance. The biggest complain was her "afro".

ABM I'm with you, the only thing I don't like, is her wardrobe
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 03:55 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The biggest complain was her "afro".

I just told you the same in my post. :-)





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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:09 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

There's nothing wrong with her hair.

My hair is like hers, just with more ringlets. Sometimes after a few days in the humidity, it frizzes out and looks EXACTLY like what you see in the pictures...I just wish mine was that full!

Some people love my hair, especially when it's freshly washed. Others hate my hair. In Virginia, I stick out like a sore thumb. When I travel to big cities, I blend in.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:20 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Va_sis,

I wager more White foks like your hair than do Black ones. Especially in Virginia.

*sigh*
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I kinda feel sorry for Lauryn. Because she's someone who's painfully tried to take herself serious in a frivolousa$$ profession. And you get the impression that she really LABORS with that.

I hope I'm wrong, though.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:23 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ABM, I would bet big money that you're right.

Because I was in Mexico recently and they LOVED my hair in an afro.





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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Again, ABM, you're right about Lauryn.

And I feel the same way in the black literary world.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lauryn Hill looks like she always looked. Crazy. Not surprising since she could be the poster girl for someone who couldn't handle fame.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:30 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

What did she do that's so crazy?
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:36 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

My wife has worn her hair loc for much as the last 5 years or so. White foks be fawning over her like she's the Dali Lama or something.

Blacks chicks be telling her they're not 'brave' enuff to loc.

*smgdh*
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

I guess if you're any sort of serious artist, you have to sort of create an alternate reality for yourself whereby you are, to a degree, oblivous to the inanity of what's transpiring about you.

Especially if you're a writer, where what you do is so internal, if not wholly LONESOME.

I don't really know what I'm talking about. I guess I'm just asserting what I guess I'd be doing if I principally earn my living and life as an artist.

Am I making any sense here?
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lauryn is beautiful --stunningly beautiful--but her clothes look like she robbed the closet of a circus clown.

I love her hairstyle!
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ABM, as usual---you're very perceptive and RIGHT.

Also, I consider you a definite writer.

Just lazy as hell.






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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lauryn reportedly had a nervous breakdown because her fragile personality couldn't cope with what she felt were demon forces infesting her "career". Plus, she's cock-eyed and this, along with those blubber lips that look like she's pressing them against a window pane helps to make her look crazy. Any more questions?
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 04:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ABM, I will go one further and put it to you like this:

The greatest, most annihilating heartbreak for a "SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS" artist such as Lauryn Hill, Sinead O'Connor, Spike Lee, Kola Boof.....is that chilling moment when you discover that the people you're fighting for...don't even exist.

It nearly destroys you at first.

BUT...then you realize that you have to press on so that someday...they WILL EXIST.

Malcolm X is an example of someone who literally DIED--so that I could find his work and BEGIN to exist. He dreamt that a woman like me would come into being....but I am Damaged, slightly OFF (otherwise I wouldn't have had the courage to be Kola).....SO NOW, my work will produce a better, more stable and effective version of me later on down the line (my sons?)--thereby bringing about what Malcolm dreamed would someday exist.

I hate my career and my work. I really do.

But I have to do it.

I get that same vibe from Lauryn.

OUR PEOPLE are no longer out there. They've been destroyed.








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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:04 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cynique,

Hey. Everyone's entitled to his/her opinion.

I don't know about Lauryn having a breakdown or about "demons" and shyt (though I know enuff know that such is fairly COMMON thing amongst famous performers).

And you can try to hate on Lauryn looks all you want to. But by any standard of measurement, Lauryn Hill is a very LOVELY and CHARISMATIC young woman (I remember noticing THAT about her as far back as when she was co-starred in Whoopi Goldberg's Sister Act 2). Probably the ONLY reason why she's not a bigger media star is she's struggled with what being such entails.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:07 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"Hey, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion." If you can hate on Halle Berry's looks, I can hate on Lauryn Hill's.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:14 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola: "The greatest, most annihilating heartbreak for a "SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS" artist such as Lauryn Hill, Sinead O'Connor, Spike Lee, Kola Boof.....is that chilling moment when you discover that the people you're fighting for...don't even exist."

Yeah. I guess it is like that. You are sorta creating for foks whom you HOPE will some day spring forth upon the earth.

Then the world - very powerful and persuasive people in it - will call you an arrogant, elitist fool to dare to expect that there can be more than that with which we wallow. And, worse: How dare YOU to believe yourself worthy of giving birth to the future?


Kola,

Perhaps OUR PEOPLE have been destroyed. But what I fear most is that OUR PEOPLE have never really been born. And we've all been mostly frail phantasm of their great promise.


PS: How and why would a Malcolm X lived to the present world?
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:15 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cynique,

I've never hated on Halle's looks. I think she's a lovely woman.

I've only said I don't find her to be sexy, especially not to extent she's often given credit for.

Nor am I impressed with her acting.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:24 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

ABM,

Malcolm X was simply a person who aquired and DEVELOPED the thinking of an authentic black person.

Non-slave thought, non-conformist to his master's system, non-bitter but fiercely demanding to be honored, completely AWARE of what had happened to his people and that ...HE...must not support it, even if his people did.

Completely willing to be despised and hated, even by his own people---as long he could tell them the truth the best way he knew how.

Though his faith was "ISLAM"---he wished for the total liberation and humanity of The Black Man.

That he should exist in his own god-given skin, in his own kingdom (Africa) and be respected and be at peace with his fellow man.

That understanding and dream is mine as well.

That we should return to our authentic selves--and that we will never truly prosper---until we do.

Malcolm X is by no means dead.






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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:27 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

((("The biggest complain was her "afro".")))

Let me tell you something brown beauty, if brothers weren’t feeling my natural beauty (which many are) I wouldn’t give a damn anyway. Because there isn’t a soul in the world that can hold a candle to me and my sweet nappy headed self. Plus I’m the type of woman that gets off on me. I take an hour long shower just to spend half of it seizing the color contrast of the thick white lather and my soft brown skin. Every now and then I gaze across the room to catch a glance of the steam, the foam, my chocolate--mmmm--my out of control bush woman hair! It is times like these when my sexually conservative self becomes a pure avant-gardist and sensualist. And to be honest with you, I’ve yet to meet a brother or another that can compete with my own image. So even if they weren't feeling it, please, to hell with what they got to say!


As for Lauryn, her clothes are not my style…AT ALL. I definitely LOOOOOVE the hair though!!!! Go Lauryn!!
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

I pray you're right.

But, alas, my lying eyes, ears and thoughts tell me different.


Tonya: " Plus I’m the type of woman that gets off on me."

Really? Can I watch? I promise I'll (try to) be quiet.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 05:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Tonya!!!! :-)


ABM, I misunderstood what you were saying at first. Stop praying---because I'm WRONG now that I see what you meant.

I was talking about "ME" and my work.


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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 06:06 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cynique:

You love Lauryn Hill and you know it.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 06:21 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hey wassup, Kola!!!! :-)
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 07:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

No, chrishayden, I like big-lipped Sade and you've never gotten over this. And I like Sade because she isn't afflicted with the syndrome Kola describes and likewise exemplifies, the notion that "I am-here to utter pearls of wisdom for all the world to hear and be awed by, and that "the world was just waiting for my appearance into the entertainment arena so that what I had to contribute would have a profound effect on their lives and a satisfying effect on my ego." Ol Sade just clears her throat and lets that husky voice caress some lyrics. She records an album, goes on tour, takes the money and runs. And, BTW, chrishayden, if you think that your baiting me is some kind of diversionary therapy, you're wrong.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 07:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lauryn Hill's lips look much better.

Sade's forehead has enough room for an airplane to land.
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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 07:29 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I think she's incredibly beautiful. Here's a good pic

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Posted on Thursday, August 17, 2006 - 07:52 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

She looked hot when she had the dreads.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 02:17 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Looks average to me.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:29 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Va_sis,

I wager more White foks like your hair than do Black ones. Especially in Virginia.


I wouldn't say significantly more, but yes, more whites compliment me than blacks. The blacks that do give compliments are the ones on the natural journey themselves. The "weave-a-licious" just stare.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:39 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

That picture of Lauryn is amazing! She's a true, natural beauty --and locs are gorgeous on her! I think sometimes when one is on a journey of self-discovery (which she has been), they have this need to prove to everyone else they aren't shallow by not looking the best they can --they have to prove they are more than their looks. I think this is what has happened to her, but I hope she returns to the look above, sooner than later!
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:40 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I also like how thin she is! She still looks healthy!
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 11:27 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This picture of her is certainly a testament to the wonders of air-brushing.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 12:39 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cynique:

I'm gonna kick your butt 'til you come to Jesus.
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The jury is still out as to whether or not you've ever kicked my butt, chrishayden. Has Jesus been a positive force in your life? It's hard to tell.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 01:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Cynique,

Actually, I find that last picture of Hill to be a POLEMIC of the wonders of air-brushing.

It seems WAY overwrought.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 02:09 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It's a standard practice in the entertainment industry to airbrush photos, nobody goes without having it done.

Even Halle Berry is airbrushed to the point of not even looking human.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 02:11 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

BB123,

I know. And it's really kinda unfortunate.

Because all that doctoring creates and perpetuates a highly DISTORTED view of how people - ESPECIALLY women - are suppose to look.
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i love sade'... she has enhanced the mileage on my matresses over the time. her voice is so smooth and she is just str8 up sexy. i like lauren too as long as she's got hair. i don't like the bald head shiznit ..if your going through chemo and your a girl that's understandable or if your old and losing it thats acceptable too, but me and my girl both can't be sporting a jordan that is a definite no-go. (and yes there are some exceptions to my rule but lauren and india arie are definitely not that exception)

on another note *serensailor your a beotch and you should just decapitate your whole cranium from off of that sperm filled neck of yours. you could have dreads, bald head, perm, or even a kid "n" play fade and you always look like a piece of shit. your one of those people who could be in their sundays best and still look like a bumb. can't get it together though can you, you still dreaming of getting piped down by your brother? huh? what? i know you are, you've got broke back syndrome all in your system. :-)
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 05:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The photo of myself that
I posted above is NOT airbrushed,
and it looks very near the quality
of Lauryn's last picture, so
I doubt she was all that airbrushed.

She's like 21 in that photo. I
doubt it's airbrushing giving her
that gloss.



Here's more gorgeous shots of a
truly spectacular beauty.





THIS WOMAN IS FOINE...and
it's a testament to our mental
conditioning...that people can't
look at her features and see how
positively BREATHTAKING she is.




It doesn't help that she's
a SERIOUS woman with a gravely
voice, of course. Like MOST
deep chocolate girls---she's
conditioned to be "tough" and
not too girly acting.

Totally different from in Africa.





I would take Lauryn's features
and her DEPTH of skin richness over
Halle Berry's any day.


As KURT LODER on MTV stated:

"Lauryn Hill looks like an ancient
African Queen come to life
."




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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 05:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

((("Lauryn Hill looks like an ancient
African Queen come to life.")))

Isn't Kurt Louder white??
It's a darn shame that
nowadays we're more
likely to hear comments
like that coming from
white men.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 06:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

^^^^LOL!

Lauryn is beautiful, talented, sexy. Too bad she isn't too bright. Four kids (one of them rumored to be Wyclef's) for a man who was still married?
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 06:18 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

Those pics that you posted of Lauryn are lovely!
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LOL Moonsigns, you sure are enjoying Lauryn Hill! You got the hots for her?
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:25 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

so in other words if someone doesn't think lauren hill is "breathtaking" its a result of some type of "mental conditioning"? lauren hill is cute, but i don't think she's spectacular looking or breathtaking. i think its a bit narrow to try to portray every dark skin woman as some kind of amazing beauty, just because they are dark skinned. vivian green is a spectacular beauty. miss universe from a few years ago who was from trinidad was a spectacular beauty. lauren hill is pretty, but far from a "breathtaking beauty".
also, what is this nonsense about "deep chocolate girls" being "conditioned" to act "tough" and not too "girly"? where is the proof of this? ive never heard of such a stupid idea as "deep chocolate girls" being "conditioned to act "tough" or not too "girly". how stupid.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:50 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

miss universe 1998, wendy fitzwilliams, a "breathtaking beauty from trinidad.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:53 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

wendy fitzwilliams
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:57 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Brownbeauty,

I certainly don't have the "hots" for Lauryn Hill --but I know a beautiful woman when I see one.
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 09:59 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yup! Trini women rock!
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Posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 10:13 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

vivian green

vivian green- a true beauty.
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Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 04:44 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lil_ze: why do you find it so hard to believe that people say Lauyrn Hill is attarctive simply because she is? You find it easier to believe that people can think Ciara (who looks rather underwhelming) is a pretty woman, but to others so is Lauryn Hill.

No one mentioned her dark skin(but you), many have remarked that it is her features that make her attractive. Unfortunately, I have found more white and mixed raced men who say this type of look is attractive as opposed to black ones.

It is alwyas the darkest and most 'out of africa' looking man who hates these types of women for some reason.
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Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 08:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)


i don't find it hard to believe people think lauern hill is attractive. lauern hill is attractive. i just don't think shes some kind of amazing beauty. i personally think ciara IS better looking than lauren hill. the reason i mentioned skin color is because some of the posts on this board love to put up pics of a certain type of looking black woman and then talk about how beautiful she is. many times i feel this is done ONLY because the woman is dark skin. light skin females are constantly spoken of in a negative light on this board. i don't know what you mean by "the most out of africa" looking man who "hates" a certain kind of looking female. i just don't get what you mean.
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Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 08:38 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

^^^I mean that sometimes it can be the most nubian or african looking guy who expresses his dislike of the most nubian or african looking girl. Like he hates himself or something.

I see your point that it is not right to dismiss someone's beauty because they are light skinned but it can be down to resentment. Black females in the media are usually lighter complexioned which can annoy the darker skinned, and equally attractive, black woman.

No excuse for the 'hate' that may go against the lighter skin females sometimes. But it helps understand it.
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Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 08:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

latina wi, i think you are an attractive female. you seem very logical and agreeable.
me gustaria besarte!!!!!
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Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 09:22 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

^^^LOL, I am not agreeable, ask my boyfriend! You wouldn't want to kiss me trust me on that one!

Soy una dama templada mala!
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Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:20 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lauryn Hill is amazingly beautiful and talented.

But the photos that Kola posted above are airbrushed. Just to what degree? Probably moderately but they are most definitely airbrushed. Sometimes these photos are airbrushed to the point these people wouldn't recognize themselves if you put the finished product in front of them. LOL

But who cares, airbrushed, crazy, couldn't handle fame she is still one of the most beautiful women I have ever laid eyes on.

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