can someone tell me why nigerian women bleach their skin?. the face ends up a different shade from the rest of the body. the face develops spots and the fingers/finger nails all become more black than their hands. ridiculous.

Help me ask them?

most know no better

In Jamaica skin bleaching is a problem because of slavery. People tend to forget it wasn't just A.A.s who were affected by the slave trade, it was also devastating in the Caribbean and due to race mixing our ancestors saw that the mulatto children recieved better treatment compared to the Ebony ones. Skin bleaching got its start in Jamaica in the early nineties but it was only those who were abroad at that time who would go back home lighter in complexion then in 1992 Buju Bantan release a song called "Mi luv mi browning" (I love my lightskinned woman) and the dark skinned Jamaican women went BANANAS! As a result some became obsessed with their blackness and angry with him and others left lingering and feeling self pity. He released a song called "Mi love mi blackning" (I love my black skinned women) to put their mind as ease and let them know he loves them too but the damage was already done.

When the skin bleaching creams were being brought back by Jamaicans from abroad they werent yet popular and those who jumped on the bandwagon to get their "rapper/ dj boyfriends" like the lightskinned and Asian Jamaican women were, would go to desperate measures such as MIXING CLOROX BLEACH WITH TOOTH PASTE and rubbing it on their skin. Eventually by the late nineties and early 2000s bleaching creme companies noticed the demand in Jamaica and now the supply is without end. It was so bad the gov.t had to place a national ban on it and like naughty children the very illegalizing of the product was enough to make more people want it and now smuggling it is nothing! Some women will spend their last dollar LITERALLY, rather than buy food to purchase bleaching creams because "it will attract their meal ticket (men)". BET's over rating of Beyonce, Rihanna, Mya, and Tyra Banks but downplaying of Kelly Rowland, Fantasia and even Jamaica's own Naomi Campbell is another major reason why some black skinned girls run to bleach to achieve the "better complexion" and they are not the only ones, even the LIGHT SKINNED Jamaican women bleach too to get the "Nice and white" complexion.

The good thing is that it is some NOT all! but with some of our female entertainers in Jamaica doing it and being proud like when Lisa Hyper release the song "Mi proud a mi bleachin" (Proud of my bleaching) which gives ppl directions on how to bleach it's saddening. But with people like the Rastafarian music artists, dancehall artists like Mavado and Bounty Killer and Queen Ifrica releasing songs condeming bleaching I see hope!  Queen Ifrica's "Nah rub" (I wont rub) actually helped my step sister to stop bleaching. I dont find white or light skin attractive in fact I strictly date chocolate men (preferably African lol) that's how much I love my blackness but as someone said above not everyone is going to get it so "to each his own".

MzDarkSkin:

In Jamaica skin bleaching is a problem because of slavery. People tend to forget it wasn't just A.A.s who were affected by the slave trade, it was also devastating in the Caribbean and due to race mixing our ancestors saw that the mulatto children recieved better treatment compared to the Ebony ones. Skin bleaching got its start in Jamaica in the early nineties but it was only those who were abroad at that time who would go back home lighter in complexion then in 1992 Buju Bantan release a song called "Mi luv mi browning" (I love my lightskinned woman) and the dark skinned Jamaican women went BANANAS! As a result some became obsessed with their blackness and angry with him and others left lingering and feeling self pity. He released a song called "Mi love mi blackning" (I love my black skinned women) to put their mind as ease and let them know he loves them too but the damage was already done.

When the skin bleaching creams were being brought back by Jamaicans from abroad they werent yet popular and those who jumped on the bandwagon to get their "rapper/ dj boyfriends" like the lightskinned and Asian Jamaican women were, would go to desperate measures such as MIXING CLOROX BLEACH WITH TOOTH PASTE and rubbing it on their skin. Eventually by the late nineties and early 2000s bleaching creme companies noticed the demand in Jamaica and now the supply is without end. It was so bad the gov.t had to place a national ban on it and like naughty children the very illegalizing of the product was enough to make more people want it and now smuggling it is nothing! Some women will spend their last dollar LITERALLY, rather than buy food to purchase bleaching creams because "it will attract their meal ticket (men)". BET's over rating of Beyonce, Rihanna, Mya, and Tyra Banks but downplaying of Kelly Rowland, Fantasia and even Jamaica's own Naomi Campbell is another major reason why some black skinned girls run to bleach to achieve the "better complexion" and they are not the only ones, even the LIGHT SKINNED Jamaican women bleach too to get the "Nice and white" complexion.

The good thing is that it is some NOT all! but with some of our female entertainers in Jamaica doing it and being proud like when Lisa Hyper release the song "Mi proud a mi bleachin" (Proud of my bleaching) which gives ppl directions on how to bleach it's saddening. But with people like the Rastafarian music artists, dancehall artists like Mavado and Bounty Killer and Queen Ifrica releasing songs condeming bleaching I see hope!  Queen Ifrica's "Nah rub" (I wont rub) actually helped my step sister to stop bleaching. I dont find white or light skin attractive in fact I strictly date chocolate men (preferably African lol) that's how much I love my blackness but as someone said above not everyone is going to get it so "to each his own".

i love ths ur writeup.

Peer pressure, ignorance ,

clorox and tootpaste oh my!

well i av a friend that bleaches, this girl was an international student and used to carry bible around now she's a skanky hoe. her skin to me looks disgusting but i'll never tell her know its gross on her, she started at first year of uni i used to get jealous cos she wasnt supposed to look more appealing than me, i saw it as cheating lol, now her skin looks bleeped, her face is red and and the cheek bones are black, i said its bad she said her sunscreen has finished, later later she stopped for a month and she got an ugly tan, she turned as black as a pot! she started the cream and it dint work again, so she brought out the big dog MAKARI maxi skin bleach, and now she looks as white as a chinese, she removed her shoes oneday her feet were like milk i thot this is not the life

^ yes girl i've seen my share of "bleachies" and stomach turning is an understatement! who wants to walk around looking permanently ashy?

no wonder the sale of skin bleach creams is illegal in the UK

Bleaching cream = Skin cancer.


do your own research and don't ask me how i came about that!

they are just very dull then the beach and it washes away the small brains that they have.