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Get ready for one of the most useless posts on this website.

Alright, I saw a post a while ago about how it doesn't make sense to write Julian Bashir as "blushing" because he has a darker skin tone. Now, this isn't a call out and the information that the poster (I can't remember who it was) was trying to convey is describing Julian (or any dark-skinned character) as "flushing pink" doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. And that is true.

However, I wanted to very briefly talk about blushing with darker skin. I am a few shades darker than Julian, but I absolutely can blush. In part because blushing is a physiological response. If you're writing from a character of color's POV, obviously, we can feel blood rush to our cheeks.

But it also absolutely can be visible. It's true that I don't flush pink, but because of the blood flow to my cheeks on my darker skin, I do, in fact, change color. I am also a person who occasionally wears blush, and because of my skin, I do not pick pink shades.

To lightly demonstrate, I'm going to use my inner wrist (which is slightly closer to Julian's skin tone than the rest of my body). I have one picture of the color I use, one picture of the blush sampled on my skin, and one of the color when it's blended out. (Forgive my skinny little wrists)

OP this was not useless. It was very helpful, thank you.

It always struck me as wrong when Julian's blush was described as pink or crimson but being very pale myself, and not having anyone with darker skin to ask, I had no idea what colour darker skinned people blushed.

Now I hope I will be able to describe it much better when it comes to my own fics

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