Skin Lighteners

A marketing mindfuck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYDV7hs3n8

 

PONDS "white beauty"? Ponds is owned by the same company who own Dove. Remember the Dove ads about womens "real beauty"?

Corporations are evil soulless entities. :cry:

 

That is sick! In Asia a lot of women use whiteners all the time. It is so wide spread that you have to read the labels very carefully when you buy a product because almost everything has whitener in it! The really sad thing is that these women were gorgeous before they used the product and now they look like freaks. Their faces don't match the rest of their bodies kinda like MJ.

 

i've read about that, along with some asian citizens electing to have plastic surgery, to alter some of their facial features, to look more "western" (or white, in other words). I like white women, but I don't see myself trying to alter my appearance to look like a white guy, in the near future.

 

I hope not Petty! I have not seen your face but if it is anything like your upper body......Damn!

 

Im not trying to generalize or anything,but i really think that asians suffer from colonialism the most.

 

tanning salons are practically on every block in my neighborhood....

round da way in da hood tho, ain't no tanning salons..

mofos dark enough as it is



but you do got barbershops (and mugs cutting hair in the basement of mom's crib, with a fake ass barbershop sign on the door, pretending to be barbers) on every block

fo sho

 

A huge difference is that lightening one's skin carries with it the implicit inferiority of darker skin, whereas tanning lighter skin to make it dark does not.

Regardless of how dark the pretty white woman wants to make herself, she'll generally be told that her skin is/was pretty enough.

 

Very fair women are told to get a tan ALL the time .....I have had boys tell me they would date me only if I stared tanning and that I would be a '10' if I had a tan, that I look like I have 'chicken skin'....etc not the same as the other way around. and BMJ you are wrong women do know what they want it is to be perceived as beautiful... and that is as fickle as a lightening or darkening cream!

 

All my life people've told me to get a tan. I'm a natural redhead with that annoying, superpale, freckled skin that comes with it, and I don't tan easy. So I stopped torturing myself in tanning salons when I was a teenager and just started telling people "I'm pale. It's how I am. If you don't like it, put on your fucking sunglasses when I'm around and fuck off".

Even my mom and my brother were trying to get me to get a tan while I was home for two weeks. My brother has his own tanning bed in his house, cause apparently he likes being dark. Mom was like "So why don't you spend a couple of days at his house and use his tanning bed? You need to be darker".


I once entertained the idea of using a "skin lightener" thing, but moreso one designed to get rid of freckles. Never did it cause I was afraid a) it wouldn't work, and b) I'd get big bleach splotches or something.

It's better to just love oneself regardless of what you look like, but the media (and people in general) will never let us do that. There's always gonna be that one (or more) jackass hanging around telling you you're too fat/skinny/pale/dark/freckled/ugly/whatever, even if you're not.

Though, speaking of Dove, interestingly enough last I heard they were starting this self esteem campaign, supposedly trying to help young girls learn to love themselves regardless of physical appearance.

 

I was told the same but I just leave it like it is.Lol.

 

very well said, disposable.

and i always liked the Dove commercials...maybe i'm the only one?
:roll:

 

Bullshit, skin lighteners have been around since the day before forever. In my country Nigeria, people have been using them since like 1940. They are not as popular as they used to be though, because now they got all the creams and shit they use.

Shit will kick your ass if you mess up tho'. If you apply too much or use it for too long, your whole body will be fucked up after some time.

 

LOL Don't they need a license to do that and a permission from the town?

 

I remember seeing these women walk up and down 116th St. Their faces and the rest of their bodies are different shades... and it looked freaky.

 

shit..

all you need is some clippahs, yo mom's basement, and some ghetto-fab flyers advertising that you cut hair, and presto!

mugs don't need licenses in the hood to be a barber, when you really think about it..

like being on a ship, and having a homie that's always cuttin everybody's hair..

that mofo don't have a license

 

There's a cosmetic line of skin lighteners called "So White" http://www.sowhite.fr/start.php and I remember seeing their advertisement in the Amina magazine for African women: "So young! So pretty! So white!" I was like: :shock: Taaaaaaaaaaaalk about brainwashing. Where are the trolls when you need them!

 

I do NOT agree on that. As a natural redhead with millions of freckles I grew up with a huge inferiority complex because of that.

Now that I am older I learned to love me the way I am, but still find me more attractive when I have a lil tan so I use some selftanning spray or go to the tanning studio every once in a a while.

 

Oh, that's nothing, Mosk. I don't know if you've seen fairness cream commercials in India, those are really freaky, they actually say it straightforward that you're not good enough and won't be successful if you're darker. From what I read, they can leave a person with serious eczemas and permanent scars.
About brainwashing, I'm sure the white beauty ideal must be an aggravating factor, but, in general, the appreciation of light skin in different cultures is very old and started as having more to do with the fact that it was a sign you belong to the upper class and don't work in the field. It wasn't just the fair skin that was a sign of aristocracy, but also the size of the hands and feet, the smaller, the better. And probably the cellulite and flabby butts they had from sitting on their ass all day long, lol.