Skin Whitening Products And Treatments? Coming from Singapore,there are plenty of skin...

DrWatson · 70-79, M

Years ago, here in the United States, when everyone supposedly accepted a "white" standard of beauty, there were skin whitening products for sale as well, with advertising aimed at Black Americans.

Fortunately, we have moved beyond that.

Beauty has no one particular color or shade.

HijabaDabbaDoo · F

Pretty common theme all throughout Asia tbh.
There's a product in Pakistan and India called fair and lovely and I saw so much of it in my home. I think we still have it although I don't use it.
I remember at one point the packaging having a brown skinned South Asian woman next to a fairer East Asian looking woman. But this was and is the most common packaging I see these days.

Pretty sad tbh.

helenS · 36-40, F

Here's the most terrible skin whitening ad that I have ever seen: 😕

Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F

There is beauty in all skin tones, it seems like that shouldn't be so very important.

bijouxbroussard · F

Is this the result of colonialism, or has this always been so in Asian cultures (if you know) ?

In the U.S. there was a time when skin lightening products (Nadinola and Artra, for example) were popular among some African Americans. I know in our case it was because of Eurocentric beauty standards, and the fact that because of the “one drop rule”, people classified as “black” here come in all colors, with lighter skinned people traditionally having had a few more advantages.

MrGoodbar · 51-55, M

Darker tones are just as if not more beautiful than white

DrWatson · 70-79, M

And here in the West, many people with light skin work at getting sun tans, or even have paid money to lie in tanning booths, in order to achieve darker skin!

ArishMell · 70-79, M

I wonder what long-term damage such bogus - and they are bogus - cosmetics do if they are not merely a white version of mascara.

In 18-19C Europe, a pale skin was admired NOT for any racial reasons but simple snobbery.

A sun-tanned, weather-beaten face was associated with manual labour day-in-day-out; and those who were not of the "labouring classes" did not want to look as if they were.

It was only the rise of seaside holidays and tourism generally in the 20C that reversed this fashion, by starting to associate a sun-tan with leisure not labour!

NotAfraidofAnything · 26-30, M

I've always loved olive skin more. It's just very attractive to me. I'd love to chat!

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

I'm happy with people to do what they need to in order to feel beautiful.

That said fairness cream is a really fucked up indicator of how colonialism messes up identity.

helenS · 36-40, F

I spent time in Japan, and apparently white skin and Caucasian faces are the beauty ideal there too. It's pretty sad.

(I wish I had olive skin, much more beautiful.)

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needsmilk808 · 56-60, M

Good for you, you are quite beautiful as you are. 🙂

Lostlostlost · 51-55, M

I’m extremely white and I want you