8. “You’d look so pretty if you had lighter skin.”
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Perhaps this “compliment” isn’t as popular, but it’s one that I’ve heard quite a few times from people who I once thought were my friends. Trying to encourage a girl with dark skin to bleach or lighten her complexion, or simply telling her that she’d look “even prettier with light skin” is not just rude, it’s just downright cruel. I mean, you don’t have to be light-skinned in order to be beautiful, and no girl should feel the need to fix something that was never broken to begin with.