Chasing fair skin, Ivorians ignore whitening cream ban

[Strapped]

Npr did a story on mexican women using that toxic mercury cream to look whiter

 

[the cac mamba]

these people look terrible with this shyt every pic ive seen. lookin like

 

[JahFocus CS]

Disgusting c00nery/self-hate.

 

[wheywhey]

A short art film on skin whitening.

Ng'endo Mukii

 

[cheek100]

Essentially, How's this different than getting a perm tho?

 

[Vilhena]

Cake Soap spreading to Africa now.

 

[Mowgli]

A bleached dark skinned woman doesnt even look natural. Other women are going crazy on the foundation and end up looking like a body that was just prepped for a funeral.

 

[BlackFruitPunch]

nikkas lost

 

[Liu Kang]

A short art film on skin whitening.

Ng'endo Mukii

This has been going on for so long now. The title of this short film remind me of this Fela Kuti track (which was made in the 70s) :

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[frankster]

Making these bleaching creams illegal or banning them will not stop this......alone.
The first step is to educate the people both men and women.....advertising campaign.
Remove and attempt to remove all privileges light skin are given within your society.....interrupt cultural imperialism - bill boards, products, video's, games, songs. TV programs and movie's that portray light skin as beauty.
Accentuate and highlight dark skin as beauty.

 

[Retired Account]

Essentially, How's this different than getting a perm tho?

There are worst health risks with bleaching(skin cancer, harder to stitch) and it looks less natural.

 

[calixprynce]

Pathetic

 

[theGoldmangod]

This why I can't fukk with this biracial is the same as black shyt. It makes us chase a phenotype we can never have and kills the self esteem, especially of our women

This shyt made me sad as fukk that its happening in places that are like 90% black though. We taking L's all over the world brehs

 

[William F. Russell]

It's extremely sad. That women are so willing to destroy our natural beauty to achieve an ideal that will never come to fruition. This is the dark side of Western influence, they see white beauty standards and let's keep it funky they Americans of all colors worshipping the white woman white man in the media. I mean they are basically burning themselves up with acid. I've visited various countries in Africa over the years and I don't think they realize how unique their beauty makes them.

:noneofmybusinessthough:

 

[godkiller]

Beautiful country. You can see how the pressure of "western beauty" affects some people, mainly women, in the country. From the color of the skin, to the texture of their hair. A lot of processed hair and sew in wigs. One of my homegirls was working there for a few years. She and some people she became close to worked to combat these issues. Dont let these negative images fool u. Africa is beautiful, both the people and the land.

Time to say au revoir to hair relaxers? - CNN.com

The Ivory Coast isn't a natural part of Africa so it is erroneous to judge natural African peoples and nations by the Ivory Cost. The Ivory Coast is a mixed race country so naturally there will be more Western issues there.