also seriously if a character isn’t white, i promise your only descriptive options aren’t food words and varying degrees of tan. it’s okay to say brown. pale brown! light brown! golden brown! medium brown! dark brown! deep brown! so many kinds of brown!
BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN
#brown is not a bad word #you do not need euphemisms #B R O W N
As a writer, just saying brown feels kind of bland. I like adding a ton of details. Describing just what color the skin. The way the hair seems to shine under sunlight, describing many imperfections that litter her skin such as scars. Just saying "she was brown" just seems really... dull to me. I feel the same way about white characters. I don't necessary use food to compare them, but I just can't say "her white skin". I'm too tired to think of an example since I was up late working last night and have to work again soon, so if I remember this when I'm off, I'll write some examples about this.
