I as talking about skin bleaching with one of my girlfriends . She works at a club in NYC and told me one of the Jamacian girls she works with pretty much bleaches her whole body. I was taken aback by this and considered this girl to have some sort of identity crisis i.e she is trying to be 'white'. Anyway my girlfriend and I started a heated conversation about this topic. Why is it 'wrong' or frowned upon that a WOC (women of color) and by this I mean any woman who is non Anglo incuding Hispanic and Asian, lightening her skin? Espically a black woman.
She made a good point saying that almost all white dancers she works with either tan or put some sort of body bronzer on everytime they work. This tanned look seems to appeal to men and looks overall more healthy. This particular Jamican dancer saw it the same way, she was lightening her complexion to even out skin tone and also lighten her skin to appeal to a larger number of customers.
The technique she uses is probably dangerous in the long run because she mixes various products and after her showers twice a day the applies the concoction to her entire body like you would skin lotion. After talking about this for about 1hr with my girlfriend I can see the benefits but I don't think I would go that far.



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I'm considering Botox, myself.


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