{"id":8475,"date":"2016-05-09T01:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/09\/beauafrique-i-remember-being-teased\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T01:56:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:56:34","slug":"beauafrique-i-remember-being-teased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/09\/beauafrique-i-remember-being-teased\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/beauafrique.tumblr.com\/post\/143961944467\">beauafrique<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I remember being teased relentlessly throughout my childhood and my teenage life where people would say that because of my skin I\u2019ll never be beautiful enough, they would even recommend skin bleaching products. So as a child I quickly realised that as a dark skinned girl I was not considered beautiful enough\u2026 At that time I didn\u2019t know that it was the negativity from the people around me that was causing me to hate my skin and myself for that matter. I remember a time during school photos where a girl shouted \u201cshe\u2019s too dark! You won\u2019t see anything on her ID but her teeth!\u201d, of course everyone laughed it out\u2026 And so did I\u2026. Because I didn\u2019t want to make it seem like I was offended\u2026 Their feelings felt more important than mine\u2026 After all growing up I was always reminded of how unlikely I was of ever being beautiful or finding someone that found my darkness beautiful\u2026.. <br \/>\nAs a 19 year old today I sit here and say \u201cI never gave in to skin bleaching\u201d, \u201cI was constantly reminded of how ugly I was but that only made me love myself even more\u2026.. I began considering myself as someone different, someone beautiful and out of the ordinary.\u201d<br \/>\nYour skin no matter how dark it is that when you smile you can only see the glow of your teeth is worthy of love, your skin is that of a goddess and you should never feel anything about your skin but self love. I write this to all of the people that have gone through similar and worse, you don\u2019t need to learn to Love your skin, the love is already there\u2026 You just gotta unleash it.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to hear some stories of yours if you\u2019ve ever gone through the same thing\u2026. Message me on Instagram.<br \/>\nIG: YoungNubiie<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beauafrique: I remember being teased relentlessly throughout my childhood and my teenage life where people would say that because of my skin I\u2019ll never be beautiful enough, they would even recommend skin bleaching products. So as a child I quickly realised that as a dark skinned girl I was not considered beautiful enough\u2026 At that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/05\/09\/beauafrique-i-remember-being-teased\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3239],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-so-gorgeous-omg","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}