Whats so wrong with bleaching your skin to become lighter?

its like if your parents smoke marijuana and condemn their child for doing meth... i understand that one is worse BUT they are both illegal...bottomline.





Why can we do things to ourselves to change or alter our features but only to an extent? If a black person wants to bleach their skin...how is it different from tanning? I dont think anyone should be stopped from altering their features into what THEY believe beauty is (whatever the hell they feel it is).... im talking about little things like mascera... to make your eyelashes longer than what they naturally are, or lipstick, even hair extensions... to me they are all equivalent to bleaching. i believe people living in glass houses shouldnt throw stones.

Whats so wrong with bleaching your skin to become lighter?
i agree with you 100 %
Reply:well i think its the persons decision....but when i went to jamaica this summer, both men and women where bleaching their sink and it did not look good....and i hate when the face white but the whole body BLACK
Reply:Some gyal a bleach tem I bleach out tem skin tem a bleach to look like a browning
Reply:hair extensions and lipstick are not equivalent to bleaching.


They are purely cosmetic, and the aim is to not to change the way you look but to enhance.


When are person bleaches, they are clearly saying that "my black skin is ugly and I want light skin because light skin is pretty". They are insulting the hard work of our ancestors or people like Marcus Garvey who worked hard for the freedom and respect of our race. What was the purpose of being freed from slavery if we continue to enslave ourselves with the colonial mentality that said we were "less-than" in the first place?


Anyway, bleaching is dangerous. VERY VERY dangerous. It can cause skin cancer, and alot of the products that people use an get into the skin, poison the blood stream and affect organs such as the kidneys.


It's not worth it.
Reply:Bleaching your skin a DANGEROUS! its up to the individual if they want to do it but once they develop cancer or get those hugh black marks and bumps all over there face/body they're wishing that they were darker again!
Reply:Skin bleaching is very dangerous, (in most cases as a warning) just before you do real serious damage to your skin it will rebel.. Whereby it will either give you uneven blotches, or it gets even-darker the next time.... If you ignore that warning, then other skin disorders will start to appear and finally you can start to come down with skin cancer because you've literally killed all the life-force in your skin and the Caribbean sun is more intense because it is right overhead.....





In parts of the Caribbean, the skin bleaching trend is as-serious of a problem as anorexia or bulimia disorders in parts of the United States in that nation's constant obsession with 'thin'. Both have the same sort of ideology, one is consider "in" and one is not consider "in", and basically "body be-damned" because no matter how bad it is for you the individual in both places feels compelled to do it anyways, just to fit into society....





In the Caribbean(Esp. under the British.) Caribbean people were bombarded with the British ideology of what is "Beautiful".





As such even today Black persons having "Straight hair" (commonly called "Good hair" in parts of the Caribbean.) is still considered as "in".... And so called "knotty" or "picky head/hair" is out.. The lighter the complexion the "better".





Women who are lighter, are called the term "a Brownin". "Brown skin" or "Red" and ofcourse seem to be more glorified in young reggae artists' songs on TV..... So it makes those who don't look-like what is in the music video try to become that. I think the whole skin bleaching phenomena is part of an ideological mental disorder still carried out in the Caribbean....
Reply:I don't really get your analogy regarding meth and marijuana. You can't compare the two.....





To answer your question: It's the mindset that believes that being light is "better." That's what's wrong with it.
Reply:you can take mascara off and after u stop tanning u will get pastey again but there are no real health risks. People who bleach excessively are at a high risk to cancers of the skin. They can do it, I do not condemn anyone but it is a dumb idea.





You can use lighteners to take off spots and tone ur skin but bleaching out yourself is not gonna make it... no day not a raasclaat way...
Reply:Love the colour you were given. Be proud to be black!! Love and appreciate your skin colour.
Reply:You seem to be very good at your answer percentage (Unless you are voting for yourself-don't say you don't do it). The answer here is so obvious. forget all about all that color change BS and just be yourself. If God wanted us to all look the same, then that's what would have happened.


I'm gonna place a bet that you are a beautiful person just like you are and you should go out in the world, smile at everyone you meet and radiate your natural beauty.