How to be attractive if not white?

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How can I be attractive if I'm not white? I get told I'm conventionally attractive like 'handsome' or 'has amazing hair and skin' but I know that at the end of the day, I still have olive brown skin (Indian/Middle Eastern here) and that the only other thing I can do to change my appearance is working out. I tried to bleach my skin whiter (even though I'm not that dark) and make myself even more ethnically ambiguous but I can never get the attention OF all the good looking white guys or LIKE the good looking white guys, whether they're in Hollywood or on social media or on Grindr/Tinder/etc. Most guys tell me they only find white guys/white skin or Asian guys attractive, and even guys I've been rejected from, if I catfish them with a photo of a white football player from my high school, they immediately respond and won't block or ignore me per usual.

Is there a way I can send my photo to someone and they can tell me what to fix? I hate being who I am
 
How can I be attractive if I'm not white? I get told I'm conventionally attractive like 'handsome' or 'has amazing hair and skin' but I know that at the end of the day, I still have olive brown skin (Indian/Middle Eastern here) and that the only other thing I can do to change my appearance is working out. I tried to bleach my skin whiter (even though I'm not that dark) and make myself even more ethnically ambiguous but I can never get the attention OF all the good looking white guys or LIKE the good looking white guys, whether they're in Hollywood or on social media or on Grindr/Tinder/etc. Most guys tell me they only find white guys/white skin or Asian guys attractive, and even guys I've been rejected from, if I catfish them with a photo of a white football player from my high school, they immediately respond and won't block or ignore me per usual.

Is there a way I can send my photo to someone and they can tell me what to fix? I hate being who I am
How old are you OP? Sounds like you you’re still very impressionable and care too much for superficial attentions from other people/strangers.


You need to accept yourself for who you are as a person and learn to love you own skin and body. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black, white, yellow or purple. You need to live your own life and focus on things that actually matters and that can improve your quality of life in a meaningful way, like getting fit and healthy, invest in good education so you can have good career and earn good money. Having a good stable income will give you freedom and do whatever you want. You can even hire a sexy 10/10 escort for a night or two if you want. Heck, you can sleep with a sexy escort every week if you so wish to when you have the money.



Don’t try to change yourself for anyone, you are who you are. Instead, try to improve yourself - with education and fitness. In the next 100 years. 99.9% of the (human population) people that you’re seeing walking around today will no longer exist or be here. So it’d doesn’t matter whether you’re ugly or handsome. You won’t be here in the next 100 years, like everyone else around you. This is why you need to focus meaningful goals and do things that give you real and longterm happiness. And focusing on your appearance isn’t one of them because it’s a losing battle! Looks fade! It does. It really does! No matter how good looking you are, it’ll fade in a decade or two at most. Rarely do you see anyone look drop dead gorgeous into their senior/retirement years. It’s almost impossible even with plastic surgeries. No matter how good looking someone is, they’ll still grow old and a new younger generation of good looking people will pop up. And you can’t compete with that. A good looking 30 year old can never compete with a good looking 20 year old. And a good looking 40 year old can never compete with a good looking 30 year old, and so on and so on.



Even if you were to make yourself look white and attract attentions from other hot white jocks/men, sooner or later, that attention will fade. They’ll turn their eyes to the younger good looking men. It will happen. Just as an example, just look at Billy Brantt, a gay porn star that I grew up watching his porn. He was everything that I wanted to look like, he was the perfect golden gay poster boy, with good looks that could rival Brad Pitt’s, blonde, with muscular body and every gay men desired him when he was in his prime (in his 20s), he could have anyone he wanted. Look at him now, no one would bat an eye at him now that he isn’t good looking, gained weight and is approaching his 40s.



In your mind, you’re seeking validation in all the wrong places. You need to seek validation in your own strength, education, career, spending time with family, and achieving realistic goals. This will build up your self esteem and give you longterm self confidence.

Be proud of yourself, be humble and be happy with what you got. Be thankful that you aren’t blind and can see your own reflection. There are millions of blind people in this world never gotten a chance to see their own reflection and their love ones in their life and would wish for that chance more than anything else.
 
Lots of good advice here so far. The crux of the matter is to love (and LIVE!) who you are.
You can improve your physique at the gym; you can eat healthier foods; you can practice good grooming and good dental hygiene; you can get a good education, etc.
Your skin color is so innate, I can't imagine much success in changing that. Also, there are many of us who relish the variety of men in large cities. My husband is, like me, another white dude, but I have had fuck buddies/boyfriends who were black, Latino, Asian, Middle-eastern, etc. White guys can be so boring!

Change up the crowd you are hanging with, and change your attitude about yourself.
Be yourself; everyone else is taken!
 
Is there a way I can send my photo to someone and they can tell me what to fix? I hate being who I am
I dont think any of you need fixing. But also: Apps and social media are shit. The validation is bullshit, the A-reels that people think are real-life are bullshit, the body and race fascism that abounds there is also bullshit.

My suggestion is to take a fast from them - delete them entirely, use the time spent on them to gather with people who you share common interests with. Queer friendly sports clubs, hobbies, meetups, even the bar, go to a drag show, take a course... whatever you like. When people see your charm in person they'll gravitate to that instead of what they can only get through a picture on a screen.
 
Haha you got a lot of good advice OP but I will say unfortunately what you say is true. It's something you just have to live with. The bias is there. It's subconscious. Most of them don't mean to discriminate or anything. But the only option is to be happy is to accept things and yourself. Much easier for some people to do than others but it's all you can do.
 
Most long term relationships are with people of their own ethnicity. That's just the way it is, so no matter what you do, they can't be turned. So stop trying to chase those people.

You can be angry about how unfair it is, but essentially you are doing the same thing by chasing only white guys yourself.

There are those who like something different and it's those people you will have success with just by being the best version of yourself.

Trying to be something you are not is actually an ugly trait and will make you more unhappy than anything else in the long run. Because you know the person you are with loves you for all you are not the fake you.
 
Stop catfishing. Stop chasing after guys who aren't chasing after you. Stop causing harm to yourself by trying to be something that you're not. Start appreciating your "amazing hair and skin". Start doing home workouts, first thing in the morning, to invest in your physical and mental health. And always remember, rejection is protection.
 
Stop catfishing. Stop chasing after guys who aren't chasing after you. Stop causing harm to yourself by trying to be something that you're not. Start appreciating your "amazing hair and skin". Start doing home workouts, first thing in the morning, to invest in your physical and mental health. And always remember, rejection is protection.
"Always remember, rejection is protection."
What a beautiful and succinct piece of wisdom. Agree 100% with everything you said.
 
Trying to be something you are not is actually an ugly trait and will make you more unhappy than anything else in the long run.

Exactly this. I get what the original poster is saying, because the world defines the current beauty status quo and it's often based on whiteness and white features. People magazine's sexist men alive have almost all been white.

Accept reality. You will never be white. You will never have the things that YOU PERCEIVE come easily to white men. You will never be what YOU PERCEIVE the world sees as the ideal man.

But all of that is in your head. There are people in this world who might be looking for exactly who you are, but they can't find you, because you are concealed under a blanket of self-loathing. If you are looking at skin color as the best quality in a man, then clearly that's going to be a stick you measure yourself by. It starts with you appreciating the other qualities that can make someone highly attractive: confidence, humor, kindness, success, assertiveness, courage, strength, intelligence. You can have all of those things, regardless of what color you are. The world is full of some weird-looking old timers, who can have any man or woman they want, because they have all those things and gold-diggers are easy to please. But is that what you want?
 
Nobody looks like the people in magazines, not even the people who pose for them. It's called PhotoShop.
You can be angry about how unfair it is, but essentially you are doing the same thing by chasing only white guys yourself.
You're railing about people thinking white guys are superior but it sounds like you think so, too. Meanwhile it's not "all white guys" it's a subset of certain Northern European accidents of DNA who are then photoshopped and live lives that are unrealistic for most of us. For everybody else the bars and apps are just as superficial.

Embrace who you are, there are beautiful people in every culture and living healthy and taking care of your body, mind, and soul will make you your best self. Figure out what you enjoy doing and go do it, because you are never more attractive than when doing something you love.
 
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Nobody looks like the people in magazines, not even the people who pose for them. It's called PhotoShop.

You're railing about people thinking white guys are superior but it sounds like you think so, too. Meanwhile it's not "all white guys" it's a subset of certain Northern European accidents of DNA who are then photoshopped and live lives that are unrealistic for most of us. For everybody else the bars and apps are just as superficial.

Embrace who you are, there are beautiful people in every culture and living healthy and taking care of your body, mind, and soul will make you your best self. Figure out what you enjoy doing and go do it, because you are never more attractive than when doing something you love.
No, I was pointing out the hypocrisy.
 
How can I be attractive if I'm not white? I get told I'm conventionally attractive like 'handsome' or 'has amazing hair and skin' but I know that at the end of the day, I still have olive brown skin (Indian/Middle Eastern here) and that the only other thing I can do to change my appearance is working out. I tried to bleach my skin whiter (even though I'm not that dark) and make myself even more ethnically ambiguous but I can never get the attention OF all the good looking white guys or LIKE the good looking white guys, whether they're in Hollywood or on social media or on Grindr/Tinder/etc. Most guys tell me they only find white guys/white skin or Asian guys attractive, and even guys I've been rejected from, if I catfish them with a photo of a white football player from my high school, they immediately respond and won't block or ignore me per usual.

Is there a way I can send my photo to someone and they can tell me what to fix? I hate being who I am
Stop fixating on what you are not and concentrate on what you are.
I'm a puny white guy with an average dick.
I'd love to be more muscular and tanned and bigger.
Guys will want you for what you are and who you are.
Me, I make do with saying pale and interesting, hard horny but not going to make your eyes water much.
 
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Honestly I'm curious if any of the people who gave advice to just be who you are, are not white?

I really don't like saying this because it comes across ignorant and insensitive but... if you haven't lived it, you don't know it. It's much harder to cope when it literally is affecting you and it isn't "just in your head."


Again this is without proper nuance and extremely oversimplified to the point of fallacy but... Basically what I'm saying is it is kind of ironic that the group of people who most benefits from just being themselves is giving advice to just be themselves to someone who that very thing isn't anywhere near as beneficial.

Again I don't have enough time to fully express all my feelings on this subject. But it's just an unfortunate reality and fact that if you live in an society that is a majority of a certain race, it's going to be the more preferred over a different race without it being malicious whatsoever.

Don’t try to change yourself for anyone, you are who you are. Instead, try to improve yourself - with education and fitness.

Trying to be something you are not is actually an ugly trait and will make you more unhappy than anything else in the long run. Because you know the person you are with loves you for all you are not the fake you.

Figure out what you enjoy doing and go do it, because you are never more attractive than when doing something you love.


Also, my problem is being myself. What I am and love to do, very few want or like. I most definitely am not more beautiful while being me lmao. Now I personally have come to terms with that but it isn't easy to do for anyone.

Ironically everyone's advice is what I knew I had to do. I had to change myself from who I am. And you all agree you should change who you are and what you love to do if it isn't being the healthiest and fittest you can be. I mean it makes sense but it just breaks the message/logic being used.
 
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I don't equate the two experiences beyond the most superficial ways (I hope that's obvious), but all gay guys know what it's like not to have intrinsic societal benefit from being themselves.

Point taken that white people have no idea what it's like to be nonwhite. But what other advice can we give someone other than self-acceptance? It's not as though one can change their skin color, or sexual orientation. I don't think anyone implied the journey to self-acceptance is easy.