Skin shades- India

My skin tone is very similar to South Indian actress Asin's.

 Her color can be described as medium brown or wheatish. In India, we use a different scale to measure skin color. We don't have redheads or blondes. We have four basic categories- fair, wheatish, dusky and dark. I have further segregated them into 6 categories-

1. Very fair- Very light skin. Pink skin tones. Often mistaken for a white person. Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh is a clear example of this skin tone. Actresses Kareena and Karishma Kapoor, Isha Sharvani and Soumya Tandon are also very fair.

2. Fair- Fair skin tones have a slight redness to them. People with fair skin tones can easily become red when exposed to sun or under physical stress. It's not that other people don't get flushed but flushing of face is more noticeable among fair skin tones. Katrina Kaif is fair. Kangna Ranaut, Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai are also fair.

3. Light Wheatish- People with light wheatish skin tone can be called fair but not very fair. Many people will not consider them fair at all. Light wheatish skin is medium brown in color and can get flushed only after heavy exercise. People with this skin tone look good in maroon.

4. Dark Wheatish- Dark wheatish skin tone is not dusky but not light enough to be considered fair. People with this skin tone sometimes look fair after a bath.

5. Dusky- This skin tone never looks fair. Not after a bath, not after a parlor session- never. People with dusky skin tones often identify themselves with the late Jiah Khan, Freida Pinto, Bipasha Basu and Chitrangada Singh.

6. Dark- Dark skin tones appear black or blackish-brown. Actresses like Nandita Das and actor Johny Lever are dark.

    Now you know all about skin tones in India :)