Melanin

Australia is the smallest continent. Most people these days’ associate Kangaroos, and the pop artist, Iggy Azealia to the country. I myself was guilty of that until I had a conversation with someone from the Oceanic country and became enlightened. In order for the employees to enter or leave the Magic Kingdom, they have to get brought in by a company authorized bus, unless you are one of the very few that has been granted gate access. As I sat on the bus, to head back to my car after a long day…

When a high school girl walks into a beauty store in Seoul, South Korea, she is immediately hit by a tidal wave of product advertisements promising her lighter, brighter skin. Creams, lotions, toners, washes, makeup... All of them are marketing to her insecurities. She looks at the airbrushed models on the posters and sighs, jealous of their milky complexions. Her stomach in knots, she glances down at her tanned arms and realizes that she had gone outside without sunscreen that day. Her mother…

color lines can go up to a level twelve. Level six being a dark blonde to a level ten or twelve being the lightest blonde. Unless a person is naturally blonde, they can not go blonde without bleaching their hair first. Bleach hair will strip all the melanin out of the client’s hair to bring to a high level. If a brunette is going blonde, they may experience a lot of unwanted warm tones after bleaching (milday). From that point, the stylist can use hair color as a toner to get rid of the…

the customer before me. The looked that I got truly gave me complete understanding of the expression “If looks could kill”, the cashiers look and reaction really hurt me and at that moment I took a look at the music from my black culture and the melanin in my skin and realized that it was not loved nor accepted by all. Furthermore, looking back on that moment at this present moment in time it prepared me for the world and taught me that not everyone will accept me but it is my duty to still…

In Amber Stark’s TEDx Talk “New Standard of Beauty” she suggests that beauty should be diverse instead of homogenous. She states that beauty is a cultural construct, more specifically it is a collection of thoughts and ideas that are created by generations and cultures and reinforced through media and television. Starks goes on to reveal her early encounter with beauty standards. She shares that like many of the Disney Princesses and Barbie dolls or the girls who are seen playing with them on TV…

For too long in society, not only at a national level but at a global level, those who were not born with the melanin that determines skin color to be white have been marginalized. Some have the audacity to believe that certain skin colors are superior to others. Jethro Bunker said “Whites are white, Negroes are black, Mexicans and Arabs are something in between, Injuns are redskins, and Chinamen are yellow. I don’t need any fancy pants biologist to explain that one to me. Except for the vastly…

CH.9) In the United States, the currency that is considered valuable would be checks, cards, and dollar bills. However, checks and cards are the same as dollar bills, but in a bank account. Money is any item that is long-lasting and scarce, which is the characteristics that a dollar bill has. In other cultures, there were other items that were scarce, including shells. The indigenous people of California used clam shell beads for currency. The dramatic shift in currency in California is…

Patrick Jessop JMJ 12/15/14 Mr. Paul Period 07 Sunscreen Effectiveness For my science project this year, I have chosen to test the effectiveness of different SPF’s of sunscreen available in the consumer market. I hypothesize that the higher SPF sunscreens really do make a difference to the “sunburns” sustained by my test subjects. These higher SPF sunscreens are essential to help protect the skin from one of the worst kinds of skin cancer,…

the body. It also helps promote normal sleep patterns in menopausal women. Cashew’s has high copper content is vital in energy production, greater flexibility in blood vessels, bones and joints. Cashew nut helps produce the skin and hair pigment melanin – premature graying of hair can be prevented by eating cashew nut. Cashew fruit is rich in vitamin C, a powerful remedy for colds and flu. The juice of cashew is now popping up in herbal formulas designed to boost energy and sexual…

LeShawn Gamble Professor Deidre Ray TLIT 4 March 2018 Review of Intersectionality: Exploring the Racial Dichotomy Nella Larsen’s Passing introduces us to the idea of intersectionality through the eyes of two co-protagonists featured in her narrative. Passing is a literary work that embodies the realist and truest forms of race as a social construct. This does not however, diminished its power when it comes to the real life experiences of those imbedded in its feral grip. Intersectionality is a…