Why the market for skin lightening is growing

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Bbbb but AAs wear weave bbbut but hair.
This is about bleaching.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

East Africans bleach way more than West Africans and Islanders. It just doesn't cause a big controversy with you guys because

1. Some of you guys don't consider yourselves Black and so its not deemed "self-hating." Again keyword, "some."

2. You guys don't have a big influence in the West compared to Jamaicans, Nigerians or Ghanaians.

3. Some(again keyword) don't consider you guys "key negros" and so its not looked at as controversial.

US study finds Somalians go to extremes to lighten skin

I see many East African women bleaching online. Second I would have to say its French Africans especially from the Muslim countries.

They have an entire beauty treatment store dedicated to this near where I live on seven sisters road. I see many sisters going in from all over but is predominantly an Eritrean, Somali and Ethiopian store. They do chemical peels, sell potions and ointments anything to do with the epidermis but I don’t think they are clinically certified.

I am not pointing any fingers though I have family from Africa and The Windies that bleach but definitely they are outnumbered by the women in my family who do not.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Why do y'all keep saying this despite the fact a billion BW telling y'all otherwise. I can see hair straighten shyt but weave? No.

Damn near every black woman I see out here is rocking some kind of straightened extension. Maybe where I'm living is an anomaly? Almost every black woman in popular media is rocking extensions. Am I lying? Extrapolating from that, it's not difficult to say a plurality - if not a majority - of black women in our country are rocking some kind of alteration to their natural hair.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Immigrants are the cac-jews of black people.

 

[DeadandGone14]

Black Americans don't bleach.
Take it how you want and move on.

Both you quote me just know im African American. You aren't getting my point. Some groups bleach more than other. At the end of the day whiteness affects everyone equal. Some groups just display their self hatred in a different way. Some more extreme than others. At the end of the days you guys are bi**chting about who hates themselves more than the other. When at the end of the day self hatred is an issue everyone in the diaspora deals with

 

[Grano-Grano]

Not what I've seen.




That's the same thinking with everyone here.

All jokes aside, I never understood the need to give up one's ethnicity in this marco identity of blackness. That's erasure as the the dumb feminists would say. We all black ppl, duh. Buy you can't give your nationality in some crooked pot idea of Pan Africanism. We have a common enemy of cacs. Once they are out of the picture, we'll turn on each other. Facts.

 

[EndGame]

Damn this shyt is just sad. Anderson Cooper's interview with that beautiful little black girl who hated her skin had me

@ Nigerian ad encouraging skin bleaching.

 

[Grano-Grano]

Black Americans?
No.
Receipts? Provide them.
Worry about FGM, also.

I said Islanders and WAs. You AA. Correct?

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Damn near every black woman I see out here is rocking some kind of straightened extension. Maybe where I'm living is an anomaly? Almost every black woman in popular media is rocking extensions. Am I lying? Extrapolating from that, it's not difficult to say a plurality - if not a majority - of black women in our country are rocking some kind of alteration to their natural hair.

The natural movement has been in full swing for like 4 years, have you noticed that?

I AVOID defending women on here but don't make it seem like sistas aren't going natural at a high rate IN THE US

 

[Bawon Samedi]

All jokes aside, I never understood the need to give up one's ethnicity in this marco identity of blackness. That's erasure as the the dumb feminists would say. We all black ppl, duh. Buy you can't give your nationality in some crooked pot idea of Pan Africanism. We have a common enemy of cacs. Once they are out of the picture, we'll turn on each other. Facts.

I know none of the AA posters gave up their ethnic identities. But when we do this we get cry babies whining that we are being "divisive."

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I said Islanders and WAs. You AA. Correct?

Yup.
Just making sure.
I'm sure I don't resemble either other party.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

@Grano-Grano maybe you Somalis can team up with AAs on this site to push ethnocentric identity so these other black posters will stop crying.

One thing i respect about the Somali posters is that out of the non-AA black groups yall haven't been the ones whining about AAs specifying our culture.

Yeah we're all Black but I like the differences and diversity among us.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

The natural movement has been in full swing for like 4 years, have you noticed that?

I AVOID defending women on here but don't make it seem like sistas aren't going natural at a high rate IN THE US

This is true

I went natural 8 years ago and all the hair care information was coming from AA women YouTube tutorials and a few Nigerian blogs.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

You called a poster a Porch Monkey. You have no room to talk. At this point you should just log off. Funny you get on me when the poster was saying Islanders and West Africans(your people) practice skin bleaching in large numbers. Your agenda here is quite clear. As for the bolded thats exactly what i'm doing since there's a snow storm here in NY. Uh... Your point?

Your mother raised a Fukkbwoi

 

[xoxodede]

It's truly sad to see and hear.

Is it a lot of males doing this as well - or more so women?

My longtime hair braider is in her late 40's and she is from somewhere in West Africa (I forgot where...) ---- and I noticed early last year that she had been bleaching. It's not a good look at all. As she looks like she has on foundation 4 shades lighter than what she really is. She's was originally brown skin and I thought she looked beautiful. I truly don't understand it. She's married too with children.

Being Black American - I have never seen these products in Black American homes -- we worry about scars (mosquito bites, scars, etc) and fading them out to match out skin. Cocoa butter was always used by my family and was/is a staple in our homes for skin discoloration.

Some Black American households and communities uphold light skin - YES - but are they using skin whitening creams to try to get light skin - NAH.