Oh, I get you, but I wasn't thinking to paint her complexion in a negative light; that's why I described that it shone. Shiny black skin here where I'm from is seen as very beautiful. So I thought of it as something beautiful. It was Victoria rather who described her as "charred" because she was angry. It's more of the character suddenly looking for something to hate on, but naturally, in Nigeria, shiny black skin is seen as a beautiful skin, @jayna.