Vaginal Fantasy Book Club discussion

I work the night shift so I have to watch VFH after work on youtube. Veronica mentioned how I thought of her as Jen and then everyone was all upset about it and I wasn't here to defend myself, lol! I thought of Veronica when I first read the physical description of Jen and did not base this on personality, ladies!! :} Here is the description of Jen from Chapter one:

"Jen's pretty on an ordinary day, and on a good day, she can aspire to gorgeous. She's got that perfect Mediterranean coloring with dark hair and olive skin, and she's one of those girls who always looks sort of glossy. "

I've never understood "olive skin." New writers love to use this to describe a female in their story, along with 'high cheekbones, a slim waist, green eyes--*Rabbi voice* again with the green eyes!--and a mole above the right corner of her lip.

Usually, you get all this after they stop and look themselves over in a mirror.

But olive skin? Is that meant to be a color? The olives I see in restaurants are glossy black or dying-grass green. The only women I see with that skin color ride a broom and wear a pointed hat.

(I'm guilty of the green eyes in my writing. My character, Deresi, has 'enchanting green eyes' and hair like a 'fiery waterfall in the morning sun.')

My mom used to say people with "olive" skin tone have skin with green and or/gold undertones who tan easily (as opposed to people like me, who are very white with pink undertones and burn easily in the sun). She could have been wrong, but that's what I always see when people are described that way. *shrugs* :D

I've know a few people with olive skin... they're usually of Mediterranean descent. If you can imagine Caucasian people who always look like they've got a dark tan, that would be olive.

Yeah, not really sure why olive is the term we use to describe it, but it basically means you're a "white" person who's naturally tan. Italians, Greeks, and other Mediterranean/Southern European dwellers are often described as having olive skin.