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_redux

What's the colour of your nipples? TMI

Jul 23, 2009 03:29

What's this thing people have about pink nipples? Take a character with brown eyes, dark hair...he/she isn't going to have pink nipples, they'll be brown. It's a pigmentation thing, okay? Blondes and red heads have pink nipples - usually, not always - but us folks with darker skin tones, not so much ( Read more... )

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_redux July 23 2009, 01:53:36 UTC

Hee. Don't know if they have a problem with it, but I've been reading quite a lot of Watchmen porn these last couple of days and for some reason brown haired/brown eyed Night Owl *always* have pink nipples and I just don't get why.

lokrur July 23 2009, 01:48:30 UTC

The other day I got a link to a website of a beauty clinic that offers nipple-colouring, because according to them darker nipples are supposed to be more sexy than pale ones. I hadn't even realized nipple colour mattered at all :o/

lokrur July 23 2009, 01:53:36 UTC

And I found it: http://ny-asynd.is/ny-asynd

Before and after and they state their that by darkening the nipples women will enhance the beauty of their breasts.

_redux July 23 2009, 01:57:03 UTC

Now this is just weird. Obviously it's the human condition, wanting what we don't have...or something. (Must admit I'm very content with my own colouring though.) ;p
Pink is great. Brown is great too. What's the deal?

lokrur July 23 2009, 02:04:31 UTC

Yup, we're silly creatures, always wanting the "unnatural". In this case it could also be about contrast as it seems to be targeted at women with pale skin and pale nipples.

I thought this was hilarious as I had never considered one colour better or worse than another (just different pigmentation). But this is just another example of how people are supposed to feel their own skin isn't good enough.

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atdelphi July 23 2009, 01:56:56 UTC

I read a weird book as a kid and can't for the life of me remember the author or title (though the cover is still vivid in my head) - in which a vampire or some other sort of killer goes into a rage over the fact that he keeps reading poetry about pink and red and purple nipples, but all he ever finds on his victims is BROWN, BROWN, BROWN!

_redux July 23 2009, 01:59:21 UTC

LOL!
Seriously though, you Americans are a mix of everything and so logically most of you are, er, brownies - is it a cultural thing?
Is this a weird question?
And I so need a nipple icon.

atdelphi July 23 2009, 02:07:10 UTC

Hey, hey, hey - I'm no American. :-P Though you're right, I am a classic Heinz 57 of ethnicities.

*peeks into shirt* In the interests of full disclosure, I will say: brown areola, reddish-purple nipple. And I think, when I've bothered to mention it, I've used used the full gamut of pink, brown, red, dark, and purple as descriptors in fiction.

_redux July 23 2009, 02:18:24 UTC

Oh my god, mine are just the same! We're probably related. I'll write fics about us now.

Well, okay, Canadian. Same thing really; half Cherokee, a quarter German, some Italiano, a twist of Nigerian and a Japanese grandmother adopted by Inuits. You know, terribly exotic for us Scandinavians who have to go back three hundred years to find an ancestor who walked for three hours to settle in the next village. God, we're boring.

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_redux July 23 2009, 02:48:46 UTC

Thinking of buying a nipple coloured sofa.
I'm very daring that way.

go_back_chief July 23 2009, 18:37:06 UTC

Take a character with brown eyes, dark hair...he/she isn't going to have pink nipples, they'll be brown.

*Checks self out* LOL no, pink as they come. :D Maybe it has more to do with skin tone than hair and eyes? And damn you for racing this topic because now I can't help but wonder what colous my mum's (who has a rather dark complexion) are, and I really don't want to go there! >:(

(btw, completely off topic, but I have to ask you who this character in SoIaF that you talk about here was? I'm only on a Clash of Thrones yet, so maybe he hasn't been introduced, but my sister was very curious and I figure that the name can't be all that much of a spoiler?)

_redux July 24 2009, 12:20:16 UTC

Hush you, you're ruining my rant.
Nah, guiess I'm not so convinced now as I was a few nights ago. ;)

The guy's name is Darkstar. "I am of the night." *groan* Shows up in book 4, where he manages to botch up the only job of importance he's ever given. Bloody poser.

go_back_chief July 24 2009, 19:48:31 UTC

Oh okay. Neither of us has read the fourth yet, so we were speculating on characters in the first three. She was wondering if it might be Theon but since he was mentioned already in the first book, that didn't seem to make sense.