I want my skin to be lighter too
Why the market for skin lightening is growing
- Thread starter Karb
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I honestly didn't know.
Maybe its more secretive here because I cant remember ever hearing a black american woman talk about bleaching her skin.
But I've heard PLENTY of Nigerian women talk about it in the open, even compare products. Mainly older women, 35+
Thanks for educating me
Damn... This topic got me thinking about my End White Supremacy thread. Transmogrification option should have been to turn all black folks into cacs. 
black american women AND BLACK AMERICAN MEN are just more discreet about it...
but please believe it THEY BLEACHING TOO
that same uncle from the south i was telling yall about...use to go thru jars of Noxema because according to my cousin he was "ashamed" of being the "darkest one" in the church
sad............
but he would never discuss it openly or admit to it....
just like alot of these African American women and males ive come across over the years.......
SELF HATRED IS A MUTHAPHUKA
black american women AND BLACK AMERICAN MEN are just more discreet about it...
but please believe it THEY BLEACHING TOO
that same uncle from the south i was telling yall about...use to go thru jars of Noxema because according to my cousin he was "ashamed" of being the "darkest one" in the church
sad............
but he would never discuss it openly or admit to it....
just like alot of these African American women and males ive come across over the years.......
SELF HATRED IS A MUTHAPHUKA
Yeah that has to be main difference is how open or secretive different cultures are about it.
I'm not going to act like Nigerian women are "proud" of it or anything, but they aren't really that secretive about it.
I'm strictly talking about the older Nigerian women, the younger ones in the US don't seem to bleach that much in the open (who knows what goes on behind closed doors)
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More brain washing and psychological warfare.
Also its hard to judge any black women who do this when you see all the Pawgs, light skin and biracial women that get posted on some of these other boards.
Also its hard to judge any black women who do this when you see all the Pawgs, light skin and biracial women that get posted on some of these other boards.
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Thanks. The two differences between how it's done here as opposed to Caribbean and in Africa are
1)it's regulated by the FDA and the products are sold legally in stores .....the lightening agents in the products are under a certain %. Overseas, and in some stores catering to Black immigrants here they sell underground products that contain higher concentration of the chemicals. Stronger stuff creates greater potential for skin and health problems.
2) Still a stigma to skin lightening here (as it should be) so people here won't speak openly of it,whereas in other places that stigma has long since been gone. Again..people are using stronger products for quicker results...they aren't trying to gradually lighten so that others don't detect it, they want to bleach right away. Many here can honestly say that they've never encountered a person who spoke of bleaching or who used bleaching products, but those products are a huge market over here. Again, the Black press has written about this extensively over the decades, and the iconic Black media has carried ads for these products for over 60 years. Sometimes the ads used euphemisms like "skin softening" during the "Black is Beautiful" era but most are openly marketed as lightening agents.
Yeah i'm getting conflicting information in this thread.
My personal experience tells me that black Americans are faar less accepting of it though.
It was a thing in the early to mid 1900s when you still had a lot of freedmen and women walking around but died out with conks.
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