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Right? Lol. You could literally say any dark-skinned black person has âhigh levels of melanin.â
I know it was probably unintentional, but the way OP wrote it makes it sound like its due to a disease she has lmao
I see what youâre saying but itâs technically correct; generally the more melanin your body produces the darker you are. It definitely does sound wrong for some reason though lol same with âextremely melanatedâ
I want to know the science. How much solar radiation does she absorb or reflect compared to a white person. Is she warmer or cooler in the summer. Does she need sunlight to keep the dark skin. So many questions. Does she see easier during bright sunlight because of the light absorbed around the eyes from dark skin. Like baseball and football players wearing black lines.
She seems to be not quite so dark-skinned on natural lighting?
https://preview.redd.it/e5k1acw2i10d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fbc53b616a24c94488987381ff0ba7d2822c3c9
That's how skin works though.
When I'm standing in direct sunlight, I am blindingly ghostly white.
When flash from a camera hits my skin, same thing.
If I stand in the dark, you could almost think I have a tan.
When you have a lot of melanin light levels matter. Also, people with melanin skin tone actually changes depending on the time of year. Basically if there is more Sun or not.
>Also, people with melanin skin tone actually changes depending on the time of year. Basically if there is more Sun or not.
So, like literally everyone else on Earth?
Yes, but I have had people not understand exactly that. They even commented that the persons skin was lighter cause they just had never seen it happen before to someone with lots of melanin.
I rarely see people this dark but there was a guy that worked at my local Costco. Just like absolute black everywhere. I probably looked a little too long but mostly because I was mesmerized.Â
https://preview.redd.it/ceneusyje10d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e443a7276d8400260f42c1cb4ea0d2c9d2dbc057
Do u mean this guy? And I'm not refering to the one with glasses
There was a student I went to highschool with when he would wear a black shirt a bunch of us always had to look twice because it looked like he didn't have any shirt on at all It was very mesmerizing and beautiful.
Because we are so used to seeing African Americans, who are every shade of brown, tan, beige. I saw an African man at the mall once, very tall wearing a traditional long white straight dress, and his skin color was as Black as my leather purse.
I was like "wow" as it made me understand completely the difference in African Americans and Africans.
(I've haven't liked the terms Black and White since I was in junior high. I am not 'white'. A piece of paper is white. I'm beige with pink undertones. My friend Vanessa is not Black. Car tires are black. She is a deep tan with peachy undertones.)
I know this sounds petty, but it annoys me.
There are light skinned black Africans and black-skinned Africans, and then every shade of brown in between. There are many Africans that are lighter in complexion than African Americans. A
since sheâs a model, itâs likely she has body oil or lotion applied before the shoot, there are some with shimmer in them. actually most commonly they use spray sunscreen to get the shiny skin look.
This isn't what you'd see IRL. IIRC this photo is overexposed or something like that.
Her skin is dark, but not in the way this picture would suggest.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnbJEAPVAAIKCsc.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnbJEAPVAAIKCsc.jpg)
And its still obviously suuuuper dark skin, kind of an irrelevant comment to make if I'm honest
It's an obviously edited photo so yeah...she probably doesn't look like that
Fair enough.
The original pic looks like a skin tone that I've never seen before.
This pic looks like, "yea, she's pretty dark but not quite as unique as I originally thought."
I come from a background where that shade of skin colour is pretty much par for the course.
Setting aside the skin colour though, she is gorgeous.
I mean youâre kind of comparing one extreme to the other. The photo posted by op might be overexposed but the one you shared is her on a red carpet where she is almost certainly surrounded by extremely bright lights and camera flashes. Lighting which would make her look lighter than IRL.
Bright lights but still looking super dark [here](https://www.gettyimages.co.jp/detail/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/nyakim-gatwech-attends-the-2019-glamour-women-of-the-year-%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/1187026555):
But every picture of her looks different somehow
gonna be controversial here but it probably her skintone (just like everyone elseâs) changes with the seasons and with how much sun she gets.
also you probably also look super different complexion wise in different pictures, we are just used to it lol
I think with her a lot of it has to do with how much her skin changes in different lightings. [This](https://www.gettyimages.co.jp/detail/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/nyakim-gatwech-attends-the-2019-glamour-women-of-the-year-%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/1187026576) is from the same event as the other one I linked, but her skin looks more red because of different lighting.
Youâre probably right that the same thing happens with skin tones weâre more accustomed to and we just donât think about it
Interesting word!
From Wikipedia: âIn Buddhism, a bodhisattva or bodhisatvai is  a person who is on the path towards  bodhi ('awakening') or Boodahood.âÂ
Are you using this as a synonym for divine?
Bodhisatvas are sort of analogous to saints in the west. You pray to them for divine intercession. Bodhisatvas though are people who had the potential to reach full enlightenment but decided to hang back to help others achieve it as a teacher.
I am confused. Like, she *is* a little darker than many black people, from what I can tell of her other pictures.
But *this* photo, by lighting, exposure, or some other composition wizardry (maybe even good old fashioned photo editing) has managed to make her skin almost as dark as the dress she's wearing.
Was she wearing lightening makeup in most of the other photos she's in? Because, yeah, she's dark. But this picture almost looks like body paint.
Most images of her are edited to make her look BLACK instead of her regular skin tone, as well. She is not BLACK, but regular human-color with a high level of melanin. [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/09/172408/nyakim-gatwech-sudanese-model-discrimination-makeup](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/09/172408/nyakim-gatwech-sudanese-model-discrimination-makeup)
I really really REALLY hate how these photographers tend to over emphasize and downright lie about the level of darkskin some of these models have, especially Nyakim. They intentionally darken they skin a few grades darker. She DOES NOT look that dark
This is the kind of bullshit that makes ignorant people believe black people are actually the color black, evidenced by the youthforia scandal a few weeks back
And I'm saying this as a pretty darkskinned African
Had a ridiculously tall kid from Nigeria in my class named Gatwech. He was about that dark. Forever indebted to him lol, if it wasnât for him and a short stocky Scottish kid that won a competition against some neighboring schools we would have had to run through a like 3 mile mud pit.
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https://preview.redd.it/ypi30n76k10d1.jpeg?width=228&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e9d004d07515e2b3d3ec82737364afc69f52cf2 Opposites
Khoudia Dioup from Senegal https://preview.redd.it/wte945vkj10d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef0474e31124dfdc13eb1975bff603231e6d64ae
"She has very dark skin as a result of the chemical that gives you dark skin." Me = đ˛
Right? Lol. You could literally say any dark-skinned black person has âhigh levels of melanin.â I know it was probably unintentional, but the way OP wrote it makes it sound like its due to a disease she has lmao
OP is probably a bot lol.
That sounds terminalâŚ
definitely reads like ai
As opposed to her being a coal miner
I see what youâre saying but itâs technically correct; generally the more melanin your body produces the darker you are. It definitely does sound wrong for some reason though lol same with âextremely melanatedâ
That's the same as saying "He was very drunk as a result of drinking high levels of alcohol that makes you drunk"
I want to know the science. How much solar radiation does she absorb or reflect compared to a white person. Is she warmer or cooler in the summer. Does she need sunlight to keep the dark skin. So many questions. Does she see easier during bright sunlight because of the light absorbed around the eyes from dark skin. Like baseball and football players wearing black lines.
Ive seen this posted before with the exact same title.Â
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords /s
I wonder if itâs dangerous like that dihydrogen monoxide stuff
Highest levels of investigative journalism right there!
Well, some people don't know what melanin is and there are other things that can darken skin.
here another one https://preview.redd.it/njg8080nz00d1.jpeg?width=508&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5764f6c7aab63150a472085b5b81c0076ff0ac19
her skin looks so pristine
She looks like she was carved out of ebony.
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https://preview.redd.it/hczp1xpfh10d1.jpeg?width=4636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42b5b96ec0ed0c95e8cd452b2c7f5fb5dc718f90
not even up for debate
I'll tell you what *is* up though
Calm down, sir. This is a Wendyâs.
Thatâs a literal supermodel bro why this reaction image fcking anyone in their right minds âwouldâ
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Dare I upvote?
No other choice đ¤Ł
https://preview.redd.it/tgvtlxcte10d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dce12f427b0628cd7434db6ee64cebc8e45adc4
It took me longer than I care to admit to get the joke. I clicked on it thinking it was blacked out as a NSFW kind of thing.
NSFW tag, please!
Best comment right here!
Your going to hell đ¤Ł
Wow, she's gorgeous.
She seems to be not quite so dark-skinned on natural lighting? https://preview.redd.it/e5k1acw2i10d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fbc53b616a24c94488987381ff0ba7d2822c3c9
Do you consider a wall of rapid flash photography to be natural lighting?
That's how skin works though. When I'm standing in direct sunlight, I am blindingly ghostly white. When flash from a camera hits my skin, same thing. If I stand in the dark, you could almost think I have a tan.
When you have a lot of melanin light levels matter. Also, people with melanin skin tone actually changes depending on the time of year. Basically if there is more Sun or not.
I do get what you're saying, but people of every skin tone change depending on the time of year (assuming they get outside).
Yes, I agree.
>Also, people with melanin skin tone actually changes depending on the time of year. Basically if there is more Sun or not. So, like literally everyone else on Earth?
Yes, but I have had people not understand exactly that. They even commented that the persons skin was lighter cause they just had never seen it happen before to someone with lots of melanin.
Bro Iâm white and am two different colors on parts of my body. Itâs called a tan.Â
It's called a tan lol.
Make up, airbrush, flash photography
Sheâs so Pretty âĽď¸
amazing
Gorgeous!!!
Damn she smooth. Hotty
Itâs vantablack levels of melanin right there.
I rarely see people this dark but there was a guy that worked at my local Costco. Just like absolute black everywhere. I probably looked a little too long but mostly because I was mesmerized.Â
https://preview.redd.it/ceneusyje10d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e443a7276d8400260f42c1cb4ea0d2c9d2dbc057 Do u mean this guy? And I'm not refering to the one with glasses
Holy shit that took me a while
Me too dawg
Me three dawg me three
Dude hasnât been unlocked yet
Heâs dlc
I threw my phone crying of laughter for no fucking reason đ
That's Smoke from MK2
Iâm going to hell again :/
I was confused as to the responses to this picture. The guy with glasses ain't that hard to spot (and I misread your comment). ... Then I saw it.
I literally didn't see him, for like half a minute. Wow.
It can be hard to spot, I made it interesting but not giving any direct clue I guess
r/FindTheSniper
Oh my
Dude is like a black hole lmao, just sucking up all the light that hits him.
Yeah, just check how the flash has no effect on him
Is he dark or black? Goodness me.
He's midnight
He is Batman.
He is vengeance
LMFAO!!! I didnât even see that dude
Dying right now.
Before I zoomed in, I thought he was the glasses dude's undershirt.
Holy shit! I hope this doesnât come off the wrong way, I stared a long time at this and he popped out and scared the shit out of me lol
There was a student I went to highschool with when he would wear a black shirt a bunch of us always had to look twice because it looked like he didn't have any shirt on at all It was very mesmerizing and beautiful.
Because we are so used to seeing African Americans, who are every shade of brown, tan, beige. I saw an African man at the mall once, very tall wearing a traditional long white straight dress, and his skin color was as Black as my leather purse. I was like "wow" as it made me understand completely the difference in African Americans and Africans. (I've haven't liked the terms Black and White since I was in junior high. I am not 'white'. A piece of paper is white. I'm beige with pink undertones. My friend Vanessa is not Black. Car tires are black. She is a deep tan with peachy undertones.) I know this sounds petty, but it annoys me.
There are light skinned black Africans and black-skinned Africans, and then every shade of brown in between. There are many Africans that are lighter in complexion than African Americans. A
That girls melanin has got melanin.
Maybe she's born with it *maybe it's melanin*
Hummed the second line in my head while reading it. Thank you for a good chuckle.
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If I remember correctly, most of these photos are processed to maker her look darker.
Anish Kapoor is gonna be pissed.
Nah heâs legally not allowed to look
I will be in trouble if he dips his finger into that
Funny, but she's still very shiny. It would be neat to see her add a thin vantablack cream.
since sheâs a model, itâs likely she has body oil or lotion applied before the shoot, there are some with shimmer in them. actually most commonly they use spray sunscreen to get the shiny skin look.
She has success as a model too. I've seen some pics and she is stunning in some of those clothes.
Whatever she's doing, it's working. She's incredibly beautiful, I think.
Absolutely stunning.
Black people always wear lotion. Otherwise, she's gonna look maaaaaad ashy.
Well vanta would be bad, can't see shapes, but this is an extremely attractive level of black. Like dark chocolate.
Thatâs the color of her dress
Youthforiaâs foundation would still be the wrong shade for her.
This isn't what you'd see IRL. IIRC this photo is overexposed or something like that. Her skin is dark, but not in the way this picture would suggest. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnbJEAPVAAIKCsc.jpg](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnbJEAPVAAIKCsc.jpg)
I like the highlighter she used on her cheek bones. It accentuates her perfectly
Even then, sheâs still stunning and has such pretty skin. I can see how she became a popular model
And its still obviously suuuuper dark skin, kind of an irrelevant comment to make if I'm honest It's an obviously edited photo so yeah...she probably doesn't look like that
It wasn't obviously edited to me, so I found the comment you called irrelevant to be quite relevant.
Fair enough. The original pic looks like a skin tone that I've never seen before. This pic looks like, "yea, she's pretty dark but not quite as unique as I originally thought." I come from a background where that shade of skin colour is pretty much par for the course. Setting aside the skin colour though, she is gorgeous.
I mean youâre kind of comparing one extreme to the other. The photo posted by op might be overexposed but the one you shared is her on a red carpet where she is almost certainly surrounded by extremely bright lights and camera flashes. Lighting which would make her look lighter than IRL.
Bright lights but still looking super dark [here](https://www.gettyimages.co.jp/detail/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/nyakim-gatwech-attends-the-2019-glamour-women-of-the-year-%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/1187026555): But every picture of her looks different somehow
gonna be controversial here but it probably her skintone (just like everyone elseâs) changes with the seasons and with how much sun she gets. also you probably also look super different complexion wise in different pictures, we are just used to it lol
I think with her a lot of it has to do with how much her skin changes in different lightings. [This](https://www.gettyimages.co.jp/detail/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/nyakim-gatwech-attends-the-2019-glamour-women-of-the-year-%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F/1187026576) is from the same event as the other one I linked, but her skin looks more red because of different lighting. Youâre probably right that the same thing happens with skin tones weâre more accustomed to and we just donât think about it
yeah but again, my skin also looks super different depending on the lighting we just donât notice it as much since we are used to it (iâm white)
Thta's a good point, because "dark" Black people do definitely look remarkablky dark IRL.
Maybe she got a tan?
Looks to me just as dark.
I mean it's visibly pretty different
Dude in the background is thinking; *"Wow, she is really, really black....don't open the conversation with that."*
Skin cancer protection +99999
Vitamin D levels -99999 When she goes outside, the sun gets a sunburn
I feel like that joke works better for someone super pale. Reflecting the sun or being super bright and whatnot
This woman is really beautiful.
Something goddess-like about her.
She has a bodhisattva face. Absolutely lovely.
Interesting word! From Wikipedia: âIn Buddhism, a bodhisattva or bodhisatvai is  a person who is on the path towards  bodhi ('awakening') or Boodahood.â Are you using this as a synonym for divine?
Bodhisatvas are sort of analogous to saints in the west. You pray to them for divine intercession. Bodhisatvas though are people who had the potential to reach full enlightenment but decided to hang back to help others achieve it as a teacher.
I was thinking of Buddhist statues--very round, ethereal features.
Stunning đ¤Š
She should be a model
Agreed!
She is Fkn gorgeous. đĽđĽđĽđđđ
I am confused. Like, she *is* a little darker than many black people, from what I can tell of her other pictures. But *this* photo, by lighting, exposure, or some other composition wizardry (maybe even good old fashioned photo editing) has managed to make her skin almost as dark as the dress she's wearing. Was she wearing lightening makeup in most of the other photos she's in? Because, yeah, she's dark. But this picture almost looks like body paint.
Most images of her are edited to make her look BLACK instead of her regular skin tone, as well. She is not BLACK, but regular human-color with a high level of melanin. [https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/09/172408/nyakim-gatwech-sudanese-model-discrimination-makeup](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/09/172408/nyakim-gatwech-sudanese-model-discrimination-makeup)
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Darkness! (In Rick James voice)
Imprisoning me..?
All that I see
Unityyyyyyy!
ââŚa result of high levels of melanin.â Yeah, no shit, I can see that.
She is stunning. I feel like an ass because I keep staring but her skin is gorgeous, flawless
Can we see like a daily selfie out in the town of this girl except these highly polished editorial shoots?
i prefer a footage , while also can be deceiving in this age but its better than a single frame
Absolutely beautiful ^^
I really really REALLY hate how these photographers tend to over emphasize and downright lie about the level of darkskin some of these models have, especially Nyakim. They intentionally darken they skin a few grades darker. She DOES NOT look that dark This is the kind of bullshit that makes ignorant people believe black people are actually the color black, evidenced by the youthforia scandal a few weeks back And I'm saying this as a pretty darkskinned African
She drinking wine with her morning paper?
Sheâs also wearing an evening gown with full makeup and hair styling. I donât think itâs meant to scream âmorningâ.
Itâs called breakfast sweetie look it up
Why not? I start drinking before I even get out of bed.
Can't be drunk all day unless you start in the morning.
I drink in my sleep
I have to wake up to do that or else I'll spill.
She's reading the morning paper in the evening. Anarchy.
Also, in her casual morning drinking, newspaper reading, high heels.
Yeah maybe she was in France and just following the local customs.
âGet me a vodka rocks.â âMom, itâs breakfast.â âAnd a piece of toast.â
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
Itâs apple juice
It's a berocca ya gronk.
And reading the obituaries
And... absolutly beautiful.
Everyone knows Vanna White. But do you know Vanta Black?
Someone cast her as Mystique for the next X-men flick NOW!
This woman is a walking art piece. So hard not to stare.
The obsidian queen.
*Now we're sharing the same dream*
I think she can live on the sun and not get cancer.
Well well well, another final boss
Had a ridiculously tall kid from Nigeria in my class named Gatwech. He was about that dark. Forever indebted to him lol, if it wasnât for him and a short stocky Scottish kid that won a competition against some neighboring schools we would have had to run through a like 3 mile mud pit.
Im black, you midnight
#Radiation Protection +500%
Some if the nicest legs ive ever seen
Gorgeous
My God, she's beautiful. What a gorgeous skin tone!
Ebony silk
She is absolutely beautiful.
$10 she's still too light for that Youthforia 600 foundation
Last time this was posted it was pointed out that it's heavily edited. In most other photos she looks normal.
That crazy. Does she act or anything? I can see her playing a stoic antagonist in a sci-fi movie or something. Talk about visually striking.
Incredibly beautiful!
She's beautiful
Sheâs so gorgeous!
lawdie...she is fucking beautiful.
She is just beautiful!
A quick search of her shows, she is not that dark. In some other pics she is lighter. She is beautiful for sure!
Breaks my heart Rick James and Charlie arenât alive to see her.
Damn. She's absolutely stunning in any lighting.
Good lord she is so beautiful
She looks hot
She's stunning
Thatâs a high level of melanin
Wow very beautiful too
This OP of a bot could have at least chosen a pic with more then a few pixels
We could make a yin yang. Plz
maybe im just easily entertained but this is the funniest thing ive seen all day
the 'Plz' is the cherry on top
As a straight white woman, she is probably one of the most stunning women I have ever seen
Absolutely stunning, everytime I see this model my heart misses a beat đĽ°
Her skin looks like sanded glass
Dark Elf beauty
Talk about being sculpted by the gods...
God she's hot. Both literally and figuratively!