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While it may not always be an exact color addressed, the reader gets a sense of that they look like. That being said. The color tone you are asking about would be considered a mellow sand. Or a light beige. Calling someone pink, would be a little insulting. Unless they happen to come from a species that is pink, or they happen to not have any ...
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This tutorial makes me think a lot about not just writing and describing, but also about the place where I am when we talk about POC, how growing up in a country where people of color are not something common (Like in the USA, France, the UK, more), but racism is, had affected my perspective and my creative world.
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But as for the OP's question, skin color, hair color/type, and bone structure would be your best tools to use in describing a character's physical appearance. In fact, hair type and color can just as easily give a reader a clue as to what a character's ethnicity is as trying to describe eyes and noses.
- any hair/eye/skin color comparision along the lines of "like a shimmering sea," "like the brightly scattered leaves of autumn," "creamy as the smoothest marble" etc - when the author goes on about how someone's facial lines make them look older than they are because they represent all their years of anguish.
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The sentence currently says: His caramel-colored skin begs to have my hands all over it. I'm trying to keep that tone and not be offensive to anyone with a darker complexion. I found a web page written by an African American woman and she says that she finds using food to describe completion extremely offensive because eating food symbolizes ...
An important side-character in a light comedy I'm writing is a gay Hispanic man, living on a US college campus (he's a citizen and grew up in the country). I don't want to make him talk like a stereotypical Latino, nor do I want him to be so assimilated that the only thing Hispanic about him is his name/skin color.
it depends if they dye their hair, but actually the most common color of eyes for a natural red head is light blue... my point was that the slightly mysterious girl with creamy skin, green eyes and flowing red locks is a colossal cliche in certain areas of fiction (YA fantasy especially)