A fork of Rural Dictionary
Giving someone "the look" or commenting/throwing shade when someone is less that six feet from others than family members/SO.
Bitch threw social shade all over me and my BFF for the the pics we posted on insta this weekend.
To bleach your hair without thought or preparation, as an on-the-spot act. Based on the famous hip-hop artist "Eminem" a.k.a "Slim Shady".
Stan: "Yo Mark, you like my new blond do?" Mark: "Why're you Slim Shading, dude?"
Shade shaming: mocking, ridiculing, or teasing someone about the amount of melanin in their skin. #shadeshaming
Examples of shade shaming: You're not black enough. You're SO dark!". You need to cover up those freckles!" or white people, you know you love this one--"you're so PALE! You need some sun!" And of course, there's the infamous "what ARE you"? The only reason to ask a person "what" they are in terms of race is because you're going to form a new opinion of them based upon their answer, which is...you guessed it...a form of #RACISM.
Terms artists use to represent the illusion of making a 2D drawing appear to have depth.
"When I drew this sphere, the light source was at the top right corner so I shaded the opposite end because the light wasn't hitting it, and highlighted the end closest to the light source because the light was hitting it dead on." Mrs.Woods explained to the class. "This is called Shading and Lighting."