I went to beauty parlour for the first time in my life when I was in my final year of my college in the year 2004 with a huge support from my grand mother(he he he ). My mother was against me in going to parlour for making up my eye brows and when I came home with my eyeybrows tweezed the sudden reply from my mother was " You are making your face ugly! " .But as today I could notice even a small kid knows much better than what I know and how to carry themselves to a very certain extent. Indeed we all want ourselves to look beautiful. I have seen many envying on the models and heroines who come in the advertisements and films and want to shine like them. The beauty consciousness has increased a lot in our country and starting from the house maids to the IT engineers go to parlours to make themselves look beautiful. That is a welcome trend but again the thought of the people to be too much emerged in this is something that worries me a lot. This trend has there again created a mindset among the young people that only fair girls are respected. The credit goes to variety of advertisements starting from fair and lovely to fair ever. Surprisingly we now have fair creams even to the boys. I agree that we should refine ourselves in everything we do including our appearance but that doesnt mean that beauty lies only in the fair colour or good figure. People who have made a mark in all the arena are beautiful in their hearts. This is another form of colour discrimination that is being followed right from a child is born. When a child is born the first thing the relatives look about is the gender of the child and next the colour of the child if it is a baby girl. And this again creates an impediment in the mind of a girl child when a normal indian wheatish girl is being teased for not fair. An average Indian middle class and poor girls still find it difficult to find grooms due to their colour composure and its high time this attitude should be changed. Girls should not think themeselves to be inferior since selecting our natural colour and composure is not with us. It is something what we are gifted with and we should be proud for what we are rather than mourning for what we are not. Least we are blessed with good physical features and think about the blind, deaf and dumb and people who are physically challenged. I could say that the smile of this lady is 100 million times attractive than the smile of millions of beautiful girls. I could sense a feel of satisfaction and innocence in her eyes and a feeling of motherliness in her. Next time when you are teased about your colour and structure be sure to ask " Yes, So I am and does it in anyway bothers you? ".

(This post is to build confidence to many of our girls like one of my friend who worries a lot about her colour and being teased for it even by her mother )