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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?

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By *emmefataleWoman over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?"
Try working in a dermatology clinic, inundated with problems because of this.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?"

Women

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By *rightonsteveMan over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Skin colour isn't one of my criteria. I wish I were darker.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?Try working in a dermatology clinic, inundated with problems because of this.

I have seen some of the problems. I really don't understand how anyone thinks applying bleach to their skin is a good idea.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?

Women

Erm, OK.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Skin colour isn't one of my criteria. I wish I were darker. "

Why do you want to be darker?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Colour of skin is not an issue with me. In fact I have to admit dark skin is a turn on

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By *emmefataleWoman over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?Try working in a dermatology clinic, inundated with problems because of this.

I have seen some of the problems. I really don't understand how anyone thinks applying bleach to their skin is a good idea."
There are copious amounts of this stuff in all guises in Afro Carribean beauty shops, people seem to buy it by the bucket load, willingly. And its not cheap!

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By *nnyMan over a year ago

Glasgow

Indeed. Cheap it ain't.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Indeed. Cheap it ain't."

No, and yet people will use them.

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By *nnyMan over a year ago

Glasgow

You have to have a certain admiration for an industry which has managed to convince half their customers that they need to be darker and the other half that they need to be lighter.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You have to have a certain admiration for an industry which has managed to convince half their customers that they need to be darker and the other half that they need to be lighter."

haha.....

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"You have to have a certain admiration for an industry which has managed to convince half their customers that they need to be darker and the other half that they need to be lighter."

Nicely put.

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By *rightonsteveMan over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"Skin colour isn't one of my criteria. I wish I were darker.

Why do you want to be darker?"

I think I would look better and healthier.

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By *lackshadow7Man over a year ago

Toronto

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?"

The media. I've touched on this before, but when young girls grow up being bombarded with images of a particular "standard" of beauty, its no wonder that they start trying stuff like that. A similar issue has been happening in Africa for a while now.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

i like black babies i think they look cuter than white babies.

i heard about this skin lightening cream a while ago, invented by an indian doctor for women to use at the top of their legs for brown marks caused by wearing hot pants.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?

Have to agree with you here

The whole media/ beauty industry is seriously screwed to selling an image that isn't healthy

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?

I do think that media images, particularly of black and minority ethnic celebrities adopting the European aesthetic, has made this more widespread.

One of my grandmothers used to call me the coolie gal as I came out too dark. This goes back further than current imagery.

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By *Ryan-Man over a year ago

In Your Bush

I thought people just put it on their bum holes

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I thought people just put it on their bum holes"

Does that go on too?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?"

was listening to this too on radio 4.....was quite shocking, had heard of this issue but had not realised just how far people were prepared to take things

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By *rightonsteveMan over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"I thought people just put it on their bum holes"

DIY - just splash on some bleach.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It's not originally to do with media concepts. Certainly not in Asia. It's to do with wealth. People who work in fields have darker skin and women who have a husband/servants to take care of them have lighter skin. In other areas such as Philippines the Spanish (originally the most wealthy) had fairer skin than the people from some of the islands so to be part of that group they look for anyway to lighten skin.

Advertising in Asia has merely used this concept to further the notion. In fact in Thailand,Malaysia and Philippines the advertisers regularly change skin tone of women to make them look paler.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?

was listening to this too on radio 4.....was quite shocking, had heard of this issue but had not realised just how far people were prepared to take things"

I thought I knew about this but there always seems to be more.

I used to accept men calling me the dusky maiden in my 20s but now I might hit them.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"It's not originally to do with media concepts. Certainly not in Asia. It's to do with wealth. People who work in fields have darker skin and women who have a husband/servants to take care of them have lighter skin. In other areas such as Philippines the Spanish (originally the most wealthy) had fairer skin than the people from some of the islands so to be part of that group they look for anyway to lighten skin.

Advertising in Asia has merely used this concept to further the notion. In fact in Thailand,Malaysia and Philippines the advertisers regularly change skin tone of women to make them look paler.

Plus the whole Caribbean skin tone stuff and who would be house slaves and field slaves.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

why on earth does anyone wish to look anything but what they are ?...surely being ' happy in one's own skin' is a far more preferable desire ? , if there are medical reasons fair enough , perhaps one day we will be able to slide The shade chart in a narrow crevice where it belongs , .....I'm sure I'm loosing it

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"why on earth does anyone wish to look anything but what they are ?...surely being ' happy in one's own skin' is a far more preferable desire ? , if there are medical reasons fair enough , perhaps one day we will be able to slide The shade chart in a narrow crevice where it belongs , .....I'm sure I'm loosing it

Weight, make-up, skin colour, hair length, colour, texture, boob size, bottom size, bingo wings, nose shape and size, plumpness of lips...

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By *londeCazWoman over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

I used to accept men calling me the dusky maiden in my 20s but now I might hit them."

Would that be because of the word dusky or the inference that you're a maiden (in the maiden, mother and crone kinda way)...;-)

I was cleaning out the glory hole* the other day and I ended up a dusty maiden

*not that sort, it's what we've always called the under the stairs storage round here

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By *isscheekychopsWoman over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I knew Jamaican girls that used to bleach their skin because they thought that they were too dark of complexion

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A watched a programme where a lady wanted an anal bleach doing as a surprise for her boyfriend.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman over a year ago

little house on the praire

Like Ryan I only thought it was used on your bum.

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By *iss_tressWoman over a year ago

London

"Woman's Hour right now on the Indian prejudice of dark skin.

I've just been shocked to hear that now there are even lightening creams for labia.

I do have an issue with the whole aesthete of European straight hair and colouring being the only desirable identity for women of all colours.

Any thoughts?Try working in a dermatology clinic, inundated with problems because of this.

I have seen some of the problems. I really don't understand how anyone thinks applying bleach to their skin is a good idea.There are copious amounts of this stuff in all guises in Afro Carribean beauty shops, people seem to buy it by the bucket load, willingly. And its not cheap!"

One of lifes ironies: black people spending ridiculous sums of money to bleach their skin and white people risking cancer on sun beds to be brown.

I dropped a "friend" who favoured two of my girls because they are light skinned over my darker skinned daughter. The prick actually told me that!

My ex-husband thought I was overacting, and it was a "joke" but my daughter at the time didn't like being the darkest, now she's happy and confident in her own beautiful, mocha skin.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

in liverpool the girls are so tanned you have no chance guessing their ethnicity

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I used to accept men calling me the dusky maiden in my 20s but now I might hit them.

Would that be because of the word dusky or the inference that you're a maiden (in the maiden, mother and crone kinda way)...;-)

I was cleaning out the glory hole* the other day and I ended up a dusty maiden

*not that sort, it's what we've always called the under the stairs storage round here"

I don't like the emphasis on my colour being the reason to find me attractive. They can call me a cranky crone now and I would accept that.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

When I was a child I wanted to be white like my mom, my dad wasn't around when I was little so I only had my white family around and hated the colour if my skin with a passion, but now I am older I have to admit I have thought of using sun beds cos in summer my skin tone is so different on my legs and arms to my torso, cos of the clothes, I love the colour of my arms after they have tanned but my torso is kind of grey is and I would love to get the same colour all over but can you imagine people's faces as I step out of tan tastic on the high street lol

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"When I was a child I wanted to be white like my mom, my dad wasn't around when I was little so I only had my white family around and hated the colour if my skin with a passion, but now I am older I have to admit I have thought of using sun beds cos in summer my skin tone is so different on my legs and arms to my torso, cos of the clothes, I love the colour of my arms after they have tanned but my torso is kind of grey is and I would love to get the same colour all over but can you imagine people's faces as I step out of tan tastic on the high street lol"

Just strip off and get some colour to your grey bits.

I remember wishing I was white when I was five. I was the only black child in the school, my cousins were the only other children I knew there but they were white too.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Just strip off and get some colour to your grey bits.

I remember wishing I was white when I was five. I was the only black child in the school, my cousins were the only other children I knew there but they were white too."

Been there in fact I'm writing a book on what it's like growing up mixed race in a white home I have interviewed a few people around my social group and I'm about a quarter way through where I need to be at to get it ready for publishing I want to talk to people from other city's especially Liverpool and the north east but if you would be interested in talking about your experiences pm me and we might be able to arrange something (I'm not coming on to you at this point I must ad) it would be interesting to hear the London point of view

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By *icketysplits OP Woman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Just strip off and get some colour to your grey bits.

I remember wishing I was white when I was five. I was the only black child in the school, my cousins were the only other children I knew there but they were white too.

Have a look at the Social History Hub.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Just strip off and get some colour to your grey bits.

I remember wishing I was white when I was five. I was the only black child in the school, my cousins were the only other children I knew there but they were white too.

Have a look at the Social History Hub."

Ill take a look

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I think the whole issue is dreadful. In keeping with Michael Jackson himself, i bleached some of my 80's LPs. Fucking ruined em it did.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

ive heard about this. the lengths some girls have gone to to lighten their skin is scary

theres these 2 asian girls that i see in primark sometimes and they look ridiculous. literally look like ghosts either from too much make up or theyve been bleaching their skin

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"in liverpool the girls are so tanned you have no chance guessing their ethnicity "

lol was just about to write the same

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