I\'ve known Hispanics and Spaniards who had brown, light brown, or blonde hair and blue or green eyes, and they didn\'t have relatives who were of Germanic or European descent, either.
I\'m 1/2 Polish, and have pale skin, brown hair and brown eyes, but I live in Texas, so my hair is streaked with lighter brown and blonde, but my skin is still paler than my fiance\'s (who is from Michigan and has Lithuanian and Canadian Indian descent in his bloodline).
The Egyptians had varying skin tones. Some of the artifacts attest to this either in the coloring used or in the facial characteristics. Nefertiti, apparently, had a light coloring, as did Cleopatra, yet Hatshepsut and her brother Tutmosis III had facial characteristics that would lend themselves towards a darker skin tone (this is something else that always has to be considered as well).
There are even some Asiatic countries, such as Thailand, who share many characteristics with the African, being the broad, flat noses, dark skin tones, and larger lips.
Doing a single article on the wide variety of ethnic skin tones would be impossible. My suggestion is to merely say \"Oriental, \"Caucasion, and \"African\" and allow people the liberty to adjust the base colors according to their preference.
