How do you love an olive skin?

How do you love an olive skin?

Being a modern Filipina, I am falling in love with tan skin. I used to be obsessed with bleaching myself and hiding from the sun because almost everyone I know says a pale skin signifies beauty. White Beauty as they call it.

I did everything just to look pale but no matter what I do, my skin just seem to refuse all that vitamin C’s and gluta stuff and SPF’s that I feed them.

Until I discovered make up.

I resorted to wearing foundation and concealer about 4 shades lighter than my skin tone from face to neck and nape. I loved the results because it’s instant.

I regret those years…

I stopped whitening myself…  And it started when my BF dragged me into running. At first I ran short distances and ran as fast as I could just to get into the finish line before the sun hit my skin. Mura kog bampira nga nahadlok sa Death by sunlight!

I loved running because I like how my skin glowed because nanggawas ang toxins saakong lawas via sweating…. Until he challenged me to run a 21km run. I wasn’t even ready for that but I did it anyway since he promised he’d escort me from start to finish.

Aaaaaand I loved the runner’s high. I love that feeling of receiving a finisher’s medal and eating with a bunch of looney friends and fellow runners! I love the feeling of running while watching the sunrise. The feeling no worries about burning. And I kinda like tan lines, it’s a sign that I’ve enjoyed carefree hours under the sun.

I looked at my old photos when I hated my original color… Mura kog espasol! It’s like, my face and neck were pale but my hands and arms are darker. OMG!  It was horrible! I felt a lot like a chocolate crinkle! A clown!

Since then I learned the lesson about loving my skin tone and buying the right foundation shade.

Who wants white, pasty, bored-inside-the-office skin? Nope! Not me.

After all, tan lines and tan skin is a sign that I enjoyed the great outdoors and a carefree life.

All the more when I realized that Caucasians envy our tan skin and that tanning beds and tanning salons are expensive from their end. That we don’t have to worry about skin cancer as much as white people do. That most beauty queens are tan.

Currently, our house is located at Talisay, just by the beach… And I’m loving it!

Good bye to my trying-hard-to-be-white. Hello olive skin!