Skin-Colored Marker

Since the school year is winding down and we have been doing a lot less work in most of our classes, on of my friends started to bring a coloring book and crayons to school. Earlier this week, a was coloring a face with a pale peach colored crayon and made the comment to my sister, "Do you remember in elementary school how frustrating it was to not have a skin-colored marker and we had to use a dried to orange or brown" She responded back with, "Well, someone's skin may be a color in the set." That comment really made me think. Then the next day in class, Sal showed us the picture and article of Michelle Obama wearing a "Flesh-colored" dress. I thought back to my comment about the marker; what made a peachy color marker normal "Skin" and not another colored marker?

When I was looking for a picture of crayola markers and I saw this one of "Multicultural" washable markers. I think this is really interesting.