Afro-Latinos Get PhotoShopped Into Latin American Beauty Standards
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THIS 👏🏽 IS 👏🏽 NECESSARY 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽!!!!!
Your after pic reminded me of the famous Mexican actor Vadhir Derbez!!
The afters definitely was not better
The before was definitely better 🙌. Gotta love textured hair.
the way my mouth dropped on your reveal. it’s crazy that this is what it is but ur so right it is so necessary and u are so much more beautiful than any one shaded beauty standard Eli
Didn’t know Eli was Mexican too. Thought he was Puerto Rican. Loved it when he said curl game poppin’, melanin poppin’
When Gadiel said, "I feel blessed to be Black. I feel happy. If they change how I look I don't care. I'm good with how I am."
@mac 187 No he is Dominican just like Cardi B
@mac 187 Okay Papi Jajajaja
I love him for always loving himself . It’s sad that Blackness is still seen as less than . Hurts me
And he says it in Spanish. As soon as he said negrito, my heart just melted. I dunno why, but despite the intense colorism in latinoamerica, that word as I've heard it used by my parents in regards to my dad and baby sister, what it conveys above all is tenderness. Negrito is sweetness, loveliness, you know?
La raza 👊🏽
Eli's part made me cry a bit "when you realize the beauty standards aren't you" 😥 I'm not afro-Latina but as a black woman I felt that so much. This video was so necessary ❤
I agree and im soo proud of all of them in the way they internalized the results and processed them and came away feeling even PROUDER!
I agree! I love the self love they have! It’s hard to love the skin you’re in when the media standards of beauty is so far away from your own and it really can mess with your mental.
I was shocked when even he was made lighter. If you ever watched telenovelas, it makes sense. Everyone in them is white hispanic.
WHO CARES? Live your life!
I once watch a video of a little 4 yr old black girl cry because she wanted to be bathed in bleach so she could turn white and be pretty. It kills me that pride in your culture, skin tone, facial features and hair, isn't taught. I remember being little and just being envious of my black friends because I sincerely loved their skin tone and how their skin would just shine and be glossy in the sun. It would look so smooth and perfect. Even the older black women would look beautiful. "Black don't crack" I would hear. Jess, you are beautiful and you are the beauty standard to millions of individual people. Maybe not the marketing department, but to us regular people who do live in the real world with you. You are the real standard of beauty.
"Más negro, más chulo" - gadiel ain't wrong
PERIOODDDTTTT lol
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Mas papi ! Ay
the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
Riiiight
Everyone wants to be white, but when they go to the beach they want to look like us. The jealousy is right there. Plus we Afro Latinos aren’t considerate in media. I love my melanin skin and I love myself. I look 16 when I’m actually 24.
Everyone wants darker skin with European facial features.
i never met anyone who wants to be dark skin they all want to be tanned
That is exactly why i support ALL people of color collectively speaking in our endeavors to create a space that represents us and does NOT lie on european acceptance or tolerance!
@@cbnboy34 ppl of color are not a collective thats the first thing you need to accept we are all individuals just because we poc doesnt mean we share values or anything else besides maybe skin tone
What’s up with this complex. No one wants to get white. Get over this, you’re still suckered into what you hear. I’m glad you love your skin I do too. But please stop perpetuating this idea that people want to be white.
Latín-American beauty standards are Eurocentric. Colonization has done a number on all of Latin America
Only for the face, bcuz latinos love big butts Lol.
@Brittany Lynn Salty and racist. Those are the only vibes you give. You should shut up. Educate yourself you dense fool
@@InfoLunix yesss. Exactly. Like, the Latin American standar wants tan skin, not too dark but not too pale, bright eyes, and definitely not indigenous features. But they also want big hips, small waist and big booty.
Sick of it, I'm boricua and the colour of daya if you have seen oitnb, all these music videos only Latinas the colour of the last ladies photoshop, I'm like hellloooo Latinx pll come in all shades, people automatically assume I'm from DR because of my colour. (No problem I love my Dominicans) I'm just saying the world thinks Latin people have to be the colour of Eva Longoria. This really has to stop
@@jodiiperez9591 The issue everyone is speaking of isn't people thinking you should be tan or that most latinx are tan. The issue is that people in the latinx community see white traits as superior.
This needs to be discussed... even if it makes people uncomfortable. It's not about hating Eurocentric standards, but making other standards of beauty okay.
what if its biological to prefer eurocentric beauty standards?
@@ojberrettaberretta5314 It is taught.
Standards shouldn’t be a thing in the first place.
@@zhade8180 Agreed
@@kellyroyds5040 then explain why light skin was prefered in africa asia and india before europeans came
The photoshoper sucks LOL. The recreated all look cartoony LOL
They on the trial version, not all features arw unlocked.
@@univ1776 lmaooo !
@@univ1776 lol
They look like Sims characters 😂🤣
Señor photoshoper dont feel bad, plsss. 😊😊😊😊
SAY IT LOUD, I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 RIP JAMES BROWN
There's nothing wrong with being white /light, having straight hair or light eyes. The problem comes with making these the standard.. Also they look weird because this is not them.. Everyone is just so much better being and looking like themselves.
Thank you for this I was questioning myself being light!
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@@anthonyrivera-medina there's nothing wrong with being any color if you don't feel better or superior to others because of it.
@@user-xm5rw8lw7x yeah there's nothing wrong with it. It just shouldn't be anything special. It shouldn't be a standard. It shouldn't make a person feel better than others.
Yes white is beautiful but the point is dark skin is also BEAUTIFUL but needs to be shown more. Especially for young kids growing up without representation 💕
“It hurts to know the standards aren’t you” ...that hit deep
Damn they gave them all the sammy sosa deluxe 😬👀👀💀 im glad you guys made this, love your brown skin mi gente 😉👑💋💗
Oh my God that guy looks terrible. I thought he was sick but then I found out he wanted to look that way
LOL
Majority of mexicans/latinx have brown skin so what are you talking about?
@@allygrigoryan5437 do you know who sammy sosa is? If not, google him. THATS what im talking about hun.
@@justjo510 I know who sammy sosa is. And you're comment made no sense😂you literally have brown skin & that goes for the majority of the latin community (majority has brown skin ). You make no sense at all.
The photos give me Sammy Sosa pale-ness.
that dude was NOT proud or accepting of any of his black ancestors!!
Yes! So freakin sad
Yes I agree.
Sammy sosa is actually Haitian.
I was going to say that.
God doesn't make mistakes we are all unique and beautiful as he made us. All are beautiful in our own skin.
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Amen!!
He don’t but society think so
Just because i’m black, doesn’t mean that my blood is polluted or i’m not beautiful. We are also apart of latino history and culture - colonized and disenfranchised. Neither my latinidad nor my blackness makes me any less worthy. Negra es belleza. Negra es poder. Las vidas negras importan.
I'm the first one born in the US, my dad was born in Puerto Rico and we are tiaino Indian as well. My dad was really dark. My mom is Portuguese and Irish and my Puerto Rican grandmother was kinda disappointed when I came out dark too. I'm 43 (F) . Please learn to love yourself everyday. We have to change the narrative for the next generations to come
Girl just by reading this I can tell you are a beautiful kind smart person! Be yourself! You seem so nice and strong and please be yourself because I am sure you are an amazing person!!!
im white and not latina at all. i love how latinos are all so diverse, like you’re all just slightly more unique in a way! i already knew about the anti-blackness unfortunately, i used to work with dominicans and i heard all kinds of stories from them. normalize all shades of black and brown! you’re all beautiful in your own unique ways ♥️
Yeah, my former gf is a black Dominican woman (she looks about like me). She didn't tell people she was Dominican for this very reason. She was even mistreated by one side if her family (who look more mixed/ambiguous) bc shes black.
@@autumnasters thats horrible 😩 i wish people didnt have to feel ashamed of their skin color!
7:30 it's so sad and so true when Eli said about the Mexican standers on TV, usually if you're too tan, have black hair, black eyes and short, your only rol in a Telenovela is as a maid or an abused "indígena", and that's really sad
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!!! No matter where you’re at in the world. 🤗💪🏾🤗
I’m Afro Mexican and I would never see anyone who had curly hair or skin color like me at school and they would call me cara de comal 😞 and that I put grease in my hair ... now they all wanna look like me ... tanning , getting perm , making lips bigger 🙄
You look more Native American
That is so true! One example will be all the Kardashians. Light skin, small nose but big butty 😄
Afro-Mexican is an anglicization of our identity. You're Mexican, and so many Latinos have one ancestor from... it's meaningless for us.
@@onceuponanexploration6048 but mexicans of African descent are underrepresented.
You're beautiful and I am sorry this happened to you.
It sucks how the telenovelas industry showcase people who does not represent the normal Latinx person. We are thought from a young age that the people that we see on TV everyday are how you are "supposed" to look like.
we are not taught, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, every human been has their own perspective. Telenovela producers give people what they want to see, the majority of people want to see a Fernando Colunga, Thalia, the majority of people prefer and fantasies with people who look like that.
97% of argentinians are white, the majority of brazilians are white too, 88% of uruguay white, half of venezuelans are also white, 95% of chile is white too, 94% of costa ricans are also white.. etc, the majority of us are white??, the Afro-descendant and indigenous population is a minority, with white constituting the largest racial-ethnic group in the region, its just facts that the majority of us are white, our ancestors were european? that doesnt take out the fact that there are also black, indiginous latinos..
@@rikki1028 The majority of Brazilians, and Venezuelans are NOT white.
@@rikki1028 Costa Ricans are not white at all. You are lost.
@@allygrigoryan5437 educate yourself before commenting, i am saying facts not my opinion, if your gonna comment comment facts not your opinion, percentages of the Costa Rican population by race are known as the national census does have the question of ethnicity included in its form. 65.80% of Costa Ricans identify themselves as white/caucasian and 13.65% as mestizo, giving around 80% of Caucasian population.
As an African American I love Pero Like because in the Midwest, you don’t meet a lot of proud Afro Latin ppl.
The midwest is a very depressing place to be period.
They have Proud Afro-Latino/Latina in the mid west but dumb people just think they are Black.
Chicago is full of lovely afro latinos
It's good you're educating yourself about Black people from other cutures.
@@ginadoll00901 Explain further please?.......
When I was on a cruise and went to Ensenada I noticed that all the people there were brown skin but all around the billboards and commercials were of white passing skinny latinos it didn't make sense to me.
Welcome to my mexico where the light skin people are more important in Mexico in everyway possible. The darker skin people have a hard life and Less Chance for anything in this country. It's like of your not wight skin color, colored eyes and blonde you not right!! That's why you will always see this issues in Mexico when you go visit there. Our indigenous people have been discriminated, put down, called names and are the number one racist targets from the European lookalike Mexicans!! Sad it really hurts me how my beautiful Mexico is so so divided so much racism done to the indigenous if your dark color skin, over 30 year's old (won't get a job after 30 yes old and the poor..
The same happens in Peru.
The photoshopped versions were all hideous
I love this channel! I’m probably outside your demographic (I’m nearly 50!) but your content, especially like this, is important. Keep loving yourself just they way you are and encouraging others to do the same! Keep on sharing your stories and your cultures. You’re all amazing!
Youre never "too old" to be part of the pero like familia! Welcome 💗💗😁
You seem so smart and kind! I feel like everyone should boost people’s self asteem! F*** beauty standards cause everyone is different and beautiful!
@@justjo510 Thank you! You seem so nice! And just by looking at ur profile pic u look so beautiful! And omg ur smile is everything!😆
@@nia8042 thank you! 😸💕 ive been teaching my daughters this too, it feels good in our soul when we are kind (it cost nothing) ✌🏾😉💚
@@justjo510 exactly I think in Schools they should talk more about race ethnicity religion and Rights! Everyone is equal and I think this is a topic that we should learn 😇🥰
It’s kinda funny. If you walk around the DR, you see beautiful brown people. But when you look at the posters, especially at beauty shops, you see completely different people. I remember seeing pictures of a lighter-skinned Will Smith and Beyoncé on display outside of some beauty shop.
Chill Beyoncé totally lightens her skin as many other Hollywood types. Can’t say That about Will.
But also , those brown people dont consider themselves brown if they were here in the U.S
My beautiful DR 🇩🇴 We still have a lot to learn. There's a lot of ignorance here.
@@Sickles197 Beyonce has always been lighter. Look at her pictures when she was younger. Sometimes certain studio lighting makes illusions on your skin but she doesn’t bleach
Majority of ppl in the Dr or either light brown skin, pale or dark brown skin.
People bleach their skin to be light, and people get fake tans to look tan 🤨 we live in a weird world. Love yourself 💕
Scary accurate, especially the PR one. I share similar features and coloring with Alexis. Her photoshopped result is exactly what I (when I was younger) always wished I looked like. Hated my curly hair. Hated my skin color and dark eyes. Took a longgggg time to love myself and it’s still a struggle from time to time. PR media isn’t helpful. Most of the people, women especially (example: female tv hosts on WAPA/Univisión, Telemundo, last year’s Miss Universe PR and this year’s) have eurocentric features and it’s hard to feel like you’re also beautiful. I know it’s superficial but it still affects people. It breaks my heart to see young girls like my little sister who say they don’t like themselves or their features because they don’t really see anyone like them in our media.
Necesitamos diversidad en los medios YA, y dejar de negar que nuestro país es racista y colorista.
Well, me being 100% Puertorican...I was born with naturally straight hair, and I always envied the girls who had more volume because they can have any hairstyle they want. I wanted more melanin too because I thought that I looked like a ghost. But at the end of the day, beauty standards are toxic af. Everybody is beautiful just the way they are!! You, me and everyone is beautiful! And I learned to love myself and people should learn that too! ❤❤❤
@Go Guerilla Foto Yup! And my great grandparents had a lot of melanin. 😅
And people talk about the light eyes, yes my eyes are lighter but not blue nor green. And I wanted to have really blue gorgeous eyes. But it's okay because Jesús me creó bien. And imagine your hair to be very beautiful. Wavy hair was something that I wanted.😊
That is so true Idelis & Go Guerilla. I have a cousin who got hired at a store. She has caramel skin. She said Blacks, Whites & Even other Latinos said to her wow I thought You we're Black. I did not know You were Spanish & PR. She said that made her feel very sad. Cause she is tired of needing to prove that she is Latina. People should be able to be who they are. Latinos/Latinas come in all colors & it is sad that People only think Latinos/Latinas have white skin & straight hair.
I understand the melanin thing, I have curly hair but I’m Dominican and my one aunt makes fun of my dad for having a white kid because I’m pale and ik it’s not as serious as the darker Dominicans/ Black ones who face more racism in America but it’s annoying for people to comment on you because of their standards of what you should look like
For me it's like I am to Latino for whites and Asians and to white for blacks and Latinos. So I don't fit in anywhere and it sucks that I don't fit the "American" standard of beauty
I love that this crew are emotionally advanced and intelligent enough to not be shaken by “beauty standards”. I love this! 😍
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" I'm white but have always found dark skin, hair, eyes to be beautiful. My kids are mixed with mexican. Love who you are no one can take that away from you.
Yes but the whole point is that Standard needs to change and show more colors, cultures and people because THEY are beautiful ❤️ little kids grow up need to see people that look like them🤷♀️I am pale white and my daughter is mixed with arabic/Indian🇮🇳 she is brown and I want her to see models and cartoons like her so she never questions her beauty.
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It’s interesting that each picture looks better before the edit
the originals have personality
For Mexican people , Selena was that first hope in the 80’s before she was killed 😔
You meant the 90's, right? When I was growing up, I saw a lot dark featured to dark hair potential Beauty in the 90's, both male and female. I remember.
P.S.A. Even the 80's had their Dark It Latino thing too! But some were sold out short. Lamo....I know. It was all about perm and dark hair, like Amanda Miguel. And she was from Argentina.
@@edgarescamilla2679 being dark feature is different than what this clip is taking aim at
Selena was still light skinned
@@cbnboy34 no she wasn't. She was tan skin.
yo soy afro latino y yo tengo dieciséis años and i am proud to be who i am and this inspired me a lot mi gente represente
#MiGenteRepresente ✊🏾
@TR TD it must be draining being so hateful and jealous 😂😂 now trot along you miserable mayonnaise muskettier
Hi sorry, but when you are saying your age, it would be tengo "16 años". When saying estoy that's more for temporary things... so in general I believe that if you are saying something describing yourself/ characteristics you would say soy, not estoy.
Hope you can hang with your latino family alot and practice the language. Stay close to your culture 🤗
@TR TD you're an idiot. Afro Latinos are persons of African descent who were from countries that were colonized by the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
Therefore, the English speaking Caribbean would not be considered afro latino, while persons from Dominican republic, Haiti, Venezuela, etc are.
@@jayjohnson8403 how bout you leave him alone hes a fkin child.
Like I knew y'all look snatched already, but seeing the alternative made me realize I really appreciate the way you are even more, because those were terrifying pictures 😂
As a Puerto Rican I always wanted light eyes and lighter skin as I got older I started to embrace my skin complexion and the fact that I have dark eyes! I am a proud Afro-Latina born from a Puerto Rican and a Dominican dad! I'm beautiful the way that I am now!
Honestly I’m white and Latino can’t help it sorry but I love how we as Latinos come in so many different shades my tía is Afro Latino but my tío looks more Hispanic as he is mixed with indigenous genes and I’m just over here white like a snowflake but I love that about us and our culture embrace it because we’re amazing
Yes but idk what u meant by Hispanic but remember that ur tia is just as latinoamericana as ur tio, bc latine doesnt have an specific look!!
Yo, Gariel looks like Detroit become human, added Dominican Android model Jose to run the bodegas. Stay black and proud.
ITS Gadiel 👍 & I like your comment😂 . Self 💙 & worth is a must have , regardless of your ectnicity or race ✊✊
Why the “white” Eli look like a Lebanese club dude?
Jyoji Fee 😂
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This is so scary! I can not with these European standards of beauty. Ugh! No one photoshopped looked better. 💔
Im so curious if their are other Indigenous Canadians or Native Americans who watch this channel. Although I am not Latino I can still relate to the little idiosyncrasies that exist within this community.
I have photoshopped myself to look like traditional western beauty standards and I also thought I looked weird. I think I look better the way I am. How I look is just me. I am ok with me. I like me. LOL
Noble Eagle Woman - thanks for sharing your experience. I’m not Indigenous Canadian but I am Jamaican Canadian and I appreciate hearing other people’s experiences with challenging beauty standards and accepting all the shades, shapes and sizes we all come in.
Commenting here to see if anyone else replies to your message.
@Brianna Baldwin im toba mixed nd i disagree we got many illegals where i live and they do not help this country but take advantage of our welfare system and free education also commiting a lot of crime argentina is poor and we get a lot of illegals and its effects are not good for the country just my opinion
Hii I'm Lakota /Cheyenne sioux. I could careless about unrealistic toxic beauty standards. I asked some of my older relatives they said some evil bad people made those standards lol ... I think the older generation could careless. But our generation 🤦down hill ⬇ Anyways! I just wanted to share my little opinion cause I'm a native reviewer.
Miwok/Maidu here
You all are beautiful the way you are.
This is the perfect phrase the needs to be taught in the home
Estos es una realidad en toda América Latina
It's stories like these that make me a proud subscriber. Gracias Pero like!!
I knew all the befores were going to look better anyway because they're all gorgeous, but their photoshopped selves were unsettling af. Especially Gadiel's. He wasn't kidding when he said he looked like the undead. I think it's a good point tho that just because those are the beauty standards doesn't make the people who don't meet those standards any less beautiful, ESPECIALLY when those beauty standards are Eurocentric af.
Why does a beauty “standard” even exist? Sad. All their differences is what makes them beautiful.
To sell products by creating insecurities 😭
@@AndreaFMS100 😢😢
Ok ok but elis curls doe 👏 he a whole snack
Gadiel looked like Sammy Sosa when he bleached his skin and wore green contacts. Sammy Sosa should accept who he is!
he is a nobody in the melanin world TODAY!
Don’t forget MJ and his white woman lips
This is so healing for me. I absolutely love this type of content. Keep up the good work.
My Dominican step mom low key looks like the female version of Gadiel’s after picture....
Y’all are so beautiful! Thanks for making this video. Our mainstream beauty standards are trash. Can’t wait for the next generations to grow up seeing and celebrating all shades, shapes and abilities so it’s normalized. Until then, we see you and we love your melanin!
You guys are beautiful!!! Sending love! Desde la isla del
Encanto!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷
This Was Extremely Powerful ! Great Content Pero Like ♥️
What I love most is that you're embracing the authentic self. You set a standard which is aesthetically unique and beautiful, as well. (I didn't think this would be my reaction, btw). What a powerful affect.
Alot of African Americans don't consider Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, etc etc black.....🤔🤔🤔🤔 which they do have African DNA??
Where are you getting this from because that's not accurate
That’s true but now they have learned that we are as black as they are. I remember being denied of my blackness when I was younger, now people don’t do it.
On average Puerto Ricans only have around 12-15 percent African. That's not enough to make us black. I myself have 13 percent African.
Eli's hair is goals. I have the same hair and only grew it out once. The maintenance it takes to grow that is pretty high. I gonna need him to do a hair video for tips bc this has definitely inspired me to grow it out.
"Beauty" Recap:
Gadiel: Take every element of what makes his face memorable, attractive and masculine, then replace it. Also RUIN TF OUT OF his naturally glowing melaninated skin
Lauren: Give her an ashy skintone that clashes with her eye color and counteracts the gold In her skin, then hide her healthy looking fluffy 4c coils under a $40 wig and shrink her nose i.e. ruin her proportions.
Alexis: Deprive her of oxygen for 3 hours, flat iron her hair and give her cat contacts.
Eli: Take the warmth out of his skin and face, then turn him into a Ken doll with giant ears and boring hair.
Got it
As an African American I really appreciate Pero Like addressing this topic and acknowledging that these issues exist within the Latino community. Bravo to you! Side note: Gadiel's smile is heart melting 😍
I am Italian but I feel this! I straighten my hair a lot but when I leave it curly (my natural) people ask me “what happened?” Nothing happened lol, that is who I am.
This video is super important. There is some much racism and colorism in the Latinx community, but it is rarely talked about. Thank you Pero Like for making this video.
This is something that definitely needs to be discussed!! Your melanin is beautiful!!!
Kudos to you guys for being brave and vulnerable! Seeing that the transformed versions could really people you see on the street, but they are not you. And it may be sad but it is also empowering.
You should do a video talking about beauty standards pero sobre el cuerpo
"I know I am a beautiful human being" thank you for being so vulnerable with us. You are all so beautiful the way you are. I love seeing the gratitude you all have with yourself
"White" Alexis kindad looks like AOC.
@Go Guerilla Foto Never said she was just said she LOOKS like her.
it's scary how looking at all of the photoshop I'm like "yeah, I've seen somebody that looks like that in Latinx media throughout the continent", but outside of Pero Like I can't say the same about the real people. Representation matters :/
This video is necessary to wake the colorist up. You guys look better in your natural state. Thank you for the demonstration #afrolatinos ✊🏾‼️
My Mexican birth mothers fam wouldn’t accept me as a mixed baby so they put in the legal trafficking system called, adoption. I was bought to be severely abused by white/Lebanese adoptives. I escaped and now finding my Mexican tribe as an afrolatinx. Black folks never accepted me and Would notice I looked nothing like the black men. But around Afrolatinx communities, I look like so many homies, lol. Thank u 4 this channel
A Dominican vampire sounds terrifying. They bite you before you can figure out what the hell they just said.
That is wild. You all are perfect the way that you are.
Beauty standards can be subjective too, I'm from Mexico and I prefer the real Eli!
I’m a darker Latinx person and it has taken me a little while to love myself. But wtf I’m beautiful and I’m not just saying that because it’s me and I know who I am but if I was to walk down the street and see myself I would take a second look too. Lol 😝 but forreal I hope my future kids don’t doubt their beauty outer and inner
ELI I LOVE YOUR HAIR! you're doing such a good job taking care of it
Definitely need to put us out there in the raw and real✊🏾🖐🏽🤚🏾💃🕺🤴🏾🌊🎉🌈💕👍🙏❤️😘
aaaaawwww.....bendito..."it hurts to hear the beauty standard is not you." You are beautiful. All of you.
More black, more handsome!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Damn right!!! The color of your skin should not make you more attractive. I thank God I am a Afro-Latina. We come on all shades of Beauty.
Great video! El video esta buenisimo! 🙌
The original is always better ❤❤❤❤
I would like to see Romeo Santos and Royce without relaxed hair. I wish they would come to terms with their Afro-ness.
Not sure about Romeo, but Prince Royce doesn't relax his hair.
Before colonial times, my people considered beauty to be one's natural looks. No modifications of any kinds (besides piercings). I hated myself when I was younger. I wanted to be white. Now I embrace my natural indigenous american looks that I got from my dad, who got it from his dad, who got it from his dad... I am happy being brown, having straight, black hair, having a bit bigger lips, having a large nose, and having dark brown eyes. I personally have always found brown (of any shade) men fine as f***. I was always attracted to native men like me. I'm not saying that European looks are bad or anything, but I've accepted myself.
I am pale white and always got made fun of because I wasn't tan 🤣you really can't win. Being yourself is enough and is Beautiful 💕glad you realized it
I agree with Gadiel "mas negro mas chulo" and have always wanted to be darker with curly hair instead I'm slightly toasted with wavy hair
No! No! No! No! NO! Ya'll are all beautiful the way you are! Screw the beauty standards!
Looks like sammy sosa and facebook zucker mixed!! 😂
It’s more than just the skin color too. You see how they changed how thin the nose is, eyes, and even ears? It’s all about European like features. As a kid, I always wondered why nobody on TV looked like me or my family (native/mestizo). Our own tamiles would point out all the chatos y morenos from our fam.
They all made me sad, but Eli made me cry. My baby boy is Mexican and has African blood and the fact that with in even the Latino community we have this type of standards I’m terrified for my current boy. Thank You for sharing!
For me Growing up in an African community has helped me a lot when it comes to loving my africanoid features , but even then I don't make the beauty standard of my country, so at the end of the day we all have to accept our selves instead of trying to please society.
Habesha also favor the exact beauty standards portrayed here. its pretty bad down there too.
Everything about Eli is perfect as is 😍
This hurts me. Not because I am affected, but as a white European I always feel somewhat responsible for this. I am sorry, that you're being told that WE are a "beauty standard". YOU are gorgoeus, YOU are precious and there is absolutely nothing to be changed.
Stfu
You shouldn't feel guilty for the actions of individuals who happen to be the same race as you because you're not them and they don't represent you nor should their actions speak for you, you're an individual with different values and opinions
All of them are so beautiful the way they are. Specially Alexis💚
Thank you for doing this! This is so necessary!
They gave Gadiel the Sammy Soza makeover! LOL! it’s funny and sad. Because when I see Sammy Soza now I do feel sorry for him. When I look at him I think, that’s a dude who hates himself and who probably hated himself for a LONG time! I miss how Sammy Soza used to look. For some people it can take a while to be comfortable on your own skin. I’m glad all my pero like people are good! Love u guys!
This is heartbreaking.. ❤ you all
Gadiel said the phrase that I feel like almost every hispanic hears at least once in their life. Funny thing is that we come in every single shade. There's dark as night latinos/ Hispanics and there's pale as sunlight latinos/ Hispanics. In my own family I have both. I think to better the race we should mix even more
I keep hearing " European beauty standards" and I'm thinking how can some other group of people's beauty standard matter to those who are not European? Stop exalting those who are no better than anyone else and giving people power over you because you covet an unrealistic ideal! I truly hope people will stop coveting a "look" that's not conducive to their mental and emotional well-being. Love yourself exactly the way you are meant to be.
Y'all are beautiful people. This video makes me feel kinda sad because you guys seem cool people and I know these beauty standards make some people change their appearance with dangerous products or just the idea that they need to alter them selves like that is sad. Much luv everyone. Luv yourself UA-cam universe
Omg they’re already beautiful people. 🥺
Like Eli, you’re already fkn perfection 😍
It saddens me to know how people in the Latin culture are treated different because they're not light enough. What's funny is i kinda went through something similar growing up a very light skinned black woman. I got teased and talked about saying i wasn't black enough or they would actually go so far to say i thought i was better, unfortunately some light skinned black folks acted like that so we all suffered the stigma.
I grew up hating my skin tone, especially during puberty, because when i developed acne EVERYTHING showed!! I,at that time, wished i was darker. Thankfully im much better with my self esteem now.
This is so so true.When Gadiel mentioned the “ mejorar la raza “ that’s something I’ve heard and been told .There is definitely still colorism all over the world and it’s sad .As a young kid I hated my brown skin, I would hide from the sun as I got older to avoid getting “ too dark “ because in some parts of México dark is still not necessarily beautiful .
This is needed ❤️
Gadiel looks better in his natural form, it’s sad that most Dominicans don’t consider themselves black when in fact they are
@@MusicIsLife2023.. They’re multiracial yes, just look at at history thou and neighbouring countries they are black, from colonization white ofc, therefore ‘mixed’ but I’m generalizing I know Gadiel did a 23&me rest or whatever but I was generalizing on the last part of my sentence
My Grandmother had white skin. Straight hair. And what’s strange is she would complain and feel hurt that she wasn’t accepted as black when I was a kid. She told my brother and I don’t try to fit in anywhere it would only cause pain. But we didn’t listen 😂 My brother is very light with strawberry blonde hair and blue-ish green eyes. To me he reminds of me Vin Diesel type look. I am brown and look black, and when I had hair it was curly. When we lived in an all white area for many years my brother was welcomed by our peers, I was not at first. That changed over time. My parents divorced and we moved to an all black area. My brother was disliked. He had to fight a lot to gain respect. He was called white chocolate, or lite brite. Over time he earned respect by fighting a lot. I thought I would have it better than my brother and was amped 😂 But no. I was the good hair kid who talked too white. So I cut my hair really close to the scalp. To make things worse my mother was part Fiji. So when Fiji family visited it reminded my black peers to call me African Booty Snatcher. What got me through all of that drama was my parents. They told me to be proud that I was black regardless what anyone said. I feel the people’s pain in the video. What sucks is having to deal with racism, and colorism. You feel like you’re always on guard. My wife is Pakistani. My daughter is proud at six years old to be black Pakistani. Her black friends tell her she isn’t black. My sons also deal with this. People like to put you where they think you belong. I teach my children to know where they belong