Do you think dark girls will be mainstream

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   First I will say that many black women do not embrace their own darker skinned sisters, but yet they are critical of "others".
 Just let your favorite celebrity marry a darker skinned or even brown 
skin woman and you all take to the forums and call her "basic" smh. So 
start loving your own darker skin and the world will take 
notice. The same way whites put having blonde hair and blue eyes on a 
pedestal, black folks could do the same, so many of us have our own 
prejudices against dark skin women. Many black women are delusional 
about their own complexion.  For example I spent many years working as a
 professional make up artist, I learned early on that I could not allow 
my black clients to see the shade of foundation I was putting on them, 
because to often we got comments such as, "I am not that darK!" or "That is to dark".
 So I made sure to hold my custom blending palette in a position that 
they could not see the foundation until after it was applied ......Kelly
 Rowland is not more successful due to the fact that she is not that 
talented, she is a back up singer, point blank. She is the Mary Wilson 
of this day. Her voice is very average, she is pretty but she 
has no other "it" factor to be a huge star......Sad that some feel 
Brandy is not huge, because she is. She has won awards, one of the few 
young black girls to have her own sitcom and after all these years in 
the industry, black and white people still know her by her first name. 
She is a big star by many standards.....You all fuss about Beyonce and 
Rhi, but regardless of their skin tone these two ladies are talented and
 have a "wow" factor, they deserve their status. Say what you want about
 Rhi but from Jay Z to LA Reid they have said she was a star from the 
moment she walked into the office, she just had it.........For the 
entertainment industry I consider anyone my complexion and darker to be 
dark skinned. We have had plenty of singing stars who are darker skinned
 and mainstream and many actresses who are darker skinned and 
mainstream. And yes Diana Ross is considered darker skinned by industry 
standards, but she has the "it" factor and she shines on screen. Motown 
had plenty of dark skinned singers who were huge........ Jodi Watley, 
Anita Baker were huge in their time, both a darker brown. Aretha 
Franklin is dark brown she still gets respect today! Actually most of 
the singers were brown skin in between. Whitney looks brown skin on 
camera but irl she was much lighter. That is another point, you have to 
know how to use correct lighting for black folks on film to get a true 
complexion. You will be surprised how much lighter some of them are in 
person..... Oprah always praises her light people because she says they 
do such a good job on her, by industry standards she is darker 
brown.....So it is not about white features are skin tone, it does come 
down to talent that will keep you in the limelight and push you towards 
superstar success. Beyonce is just talented, there has not been an artists male or
 female that can give a performance they way she can in the past 10 
years, whether her complexion is light or dark, she would of been 
successful.....Gabby Union and Aisha Taylor both constantly praised by 
the industry for their beauty, both of these ladies are dark skin to me.
 You do not have to be blue black to be dark skin. I consider myself 
dark skin.....So let us start embracing and praising our darker skinned 
big nose sisters more then maybe we can point a finger at "others". Look at how many of you are critical of Rhi Rhi's nose, like what is the deal with that? Why do you have an issue with her nose? You have issues with it but expect "others" to not have an issue with it? Come on black women.