There's  

   Casper the Friendly Ghost White
   Off White
   Pink-skins (Andorians beware!)
   Sun-kissed
   Bronzed
   Did you see a dermatologist lately?

Or, you could look at a photo of the provider.  That should give you a pretty good idea of degree of blackness... or whiteness.  

suggestions  in the past. Why stop at AA? What about caucasian? There are all variations of color there too. What about Asians and Latinas? How about not making profiles more complicated than they have to be, and just looking at the pictures yourself?
Come on man! You expect guys who can't differentiate between baby fat, heavy, athletic, and average, to distinguish between, Caramel, mocha and dark chocolate?

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Put a color chart on the Review Form and require a number in the skin color field. Or, using fancier code, make the complexion field a drop-down color bar: scroll along to select the color.

Here's one:

Another one of the review / Profile problems we've known about for a long time is that not everyone with dark skin is "African-American." Some are African-African, African-French, African-Brazilian and so on.  

Just sayin' ...

hey I wrote about this today!

I'm actually middle eastern. But I appear white. I'm matell vanilla/peach a hard one to place. But truly, it bothers me how racial it all is.