Dia duit!

The aunt of my husband wanted, for an Halloween party, to be an African person
and took a black ink bath... Oh, it works good but 3 things about it:

1. your white bath is black for a month and more ;0)

2. Your skin is very black (not brown black like those persons) for few weeks
and also don`t looks natural.

3 DON`T DO THIS BECAUSE IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO POISONOUS YOURSELF! Ink is
poison ;0) The aunt in question did`nt poisoned herself, but a friend of mine
who is doctor, told me that this is potentiencialy dangerous...



A suggestion: you could just dress yourself and act like those people without
being black skinned. Say that you where adopted by them...or something like that
;0)


Lady Éadaoin Uì Brien

Shire La Selve d`Aure







To: scanewcomers@yahoogroups.com; sca-middle@...;
SCA-Tree-Girt-Sea@yahoogroups.com
From: judith@...
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:52:10 -0500
Subject: [SCA Newcomers] Dark skin dye?







I'm pasty-pale, and I want my persona to be quite dark. I know it's
okay to be pale even when one has a pale persona, but I LIKE darker
skin, and would love to have it, even if for only a few days out of
the year. I'm very pale, freckled, red-haired (or, ahem, I was a
redhead before it all started turning darker and then white), and I'm
going for... well, as dark as I can get, anything from deep black like
a Nubian to a cinnamon brown like an Indian or dark Arab. I can't be
the only person who's tried this, but I hope someone out there has
been more successful than I have! Here's what I've tried without
success, and why it doesn't work for me:

1. Henna. Turns me orange, not brown.

2. Make-up/cosmetics. Washes right off, especially my hands, which I
wash often for hygiene. Also, it smears onto my clothes.

3. Walnut hull. It goes on dark, changes my hair color and any cloth
it touches, but then washes right off my skin as if it were never
there. Sad, because this was my best bet so far.

4. The solution from "Black Like Me," tanning pills plus an injection
of a certain chemical. I've spoken to my doctor about this. It works
by damaging the skin cells and making them extremely sun-sensitive,
which I don't need; it puts a person at a higher risk of skin cancer,
which I also don't need because it already runs in my family; and it's
expensive.

5. Tanning pills. Either they don't work, or they turn the skin orange
like henna.

6. Self-tanning lotions. I've only tried a handful of these, but so
far, they've all turned me orange instead of brown.

Any thoughts? Ideally I'd only have to apply it once (or daily over a
period of a few days) in order for it to last at least the duration of
a weekend-long event, complete with showering and lots of hand
washing. Even better if it would last for the duration of, say,
Pennsic (I can't go this year, but I'm hoping for next year).

-- Judith / Divash









_________________________________________________________________
Avec Windows Live, vous gardez le contact avec tous vos amis au même endroit.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660830

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]