If you can’t be dark-skinned in Africa, then where can you? |
And people bleach in Asia — lightening creams and lotions are as ubiquitous in drugstores in Seoul as eye shadow. They do it in Europe, despite the restrictions there on sales of hydroquinone. You can walk into any number of black beauty salons in London and find bleaching creams and lotions.
But Africa? If you can’t be dark-skinned in Africa, then where can you?
Helene Cooper, “What Is the Color of Beauty?,” The New York Times, November 26, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/fashion/skin-bleaching-south-africa-women.html.
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