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Posted: Thursday May 27th, 2004 16:27 |
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urban_beauty wrote: Most honestly- i don't see it as a bad thing; unless it becomes extreme to the point that you look like u aint black no more. Cos most honestly i think some people need it, people who are particularly patchy like me- lol. I just want my skin to be even, for example, if i were to hold my hands up to my face- they don't look like my hands cos they are extremely light in comparison to my face and so is the rest of my body. Of all things my forhead is just the darkest part of my body, it's got this seriously dark streak going across it and it just seriously stand out, so everytime i get my hair done i do it so that it covers tht dark patch. If i were to bleach my body- it would most definately be my forehead- cos that dark patch has just got to go. It is beginning to fade though cos i've started to use complextion cream for it.
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I can understand wanting to even out your skin color and be free of skin discolorations but as it has be stated earlier here
that bleaching is dangerous and damadging to your skins and reversable so why not look to even your skin color by using sun screen and safely tanning, making your light hands darker to match the rest of your body?
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Posted: Thursday May 27th, 2004 17:38 |
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Posted: Friday May 28th, 2004 13:15 |
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runfromyourwife wrote:
You really are a waste of semen aren't you?
Damn boy that is harsh !!! What she do to deserve that?
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Posted: Friday May 28th, 2004 17:21 |
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runfromyourwife wrote: Spice wrote:
I can understand wanting to even out your skin color and be free of skin discolorations but as it has be stated earlier here
that bleaching is dangerous and damadging to your skins and reversable so why not look to even your skin color by using sun screen and safely tanning, making your light hands darker to match the rest of your body?
@ the spice :-)
You really are a waste of semen aren't you?
And you are a waste of labor pains that your mom had to suffer through to get an idiot such as yourself!
I don't believe you are a lone person much less a black woman. I believe there are a number of people posting under the name Spice. What is S_P_I_C_E is it some kind of racist acronym for some white racist collective?
You attempt to thwart any attempt at black male/female unity and promote IRs with a commitment that is almost inspiring.
Have you created a program that triggers an alarm on your PCs whenever the words "Black Man and Woman getting along happily thanks" appears on Blacknet?
You idiotic Fool, why, oh why are you posting this paranoid crap in thread talking a bleaching? Ding! I'm sure the men in white coats will be along soon to take for the mental help you need!
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Posted: Friday May 28th, 2004 17:32 |
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@ the spice :-)
You really are a waste of semen aren't you? I don't believe you are a lone person much less a black woman. I believe there are a number of people posting under the name Spice. What is S_P_I_C_E is it some kind of racist acronym for some white racist collective?
You attempt to thwart any attempt at black male/female unity and promote IRs with a commitment that is almost inspiring.
Have you created a program that triggers an alarm on your PCs whenever the words "Black Man and Woman getting along happily thanks" appears on Blacknet?
I'll say it again as I did in the Is this Site Racist? thread - any organisation purporting to provide an outlet for blacks to discuss the issues of concern to them, should show leadership and BLACK OUT the comments of those who want to disrupt any moves towards black unity whether they claim to be black, are black or otherwise.
Any such views should only be aired in very controlled circumstances and then only for the sake of discrediting them.
These people should not be given cart blanche to continually poison minds with their hateful doctrines.
You'll earn yourself a lot more credibility in the wider black community if it became known that you are defiantely and uncompromisingly Black in outlook.
A BLACK OUT on the IR purveyors would be an excellent place to start.
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Posted: Saturday May 29th, 2004 11:14 |
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| I agree that bleaching is self-destructive but you don't have to look far to understand some of the (sub-conscious) reasons why women of African descent bleach (check out some of the posts on this site) believe me the negative vibes that sistas can get about beauty start in childhood and by the teenage years can be so ingrained which is why whenever any of us see a sista of beauty wherever and whenever appreciate and compliment her
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Posted: Saturday May 29th, 2004 15:07 |
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Sista Africa wrote: I agree that bleaching is self-destructive but you don't have to look far to understand some of the (sub-conscious) reasons why women of African descent bleach (check out some of the posts on this site) believe me the negative vibes that sistas can get about beauty start in childhood and by the teenage years can be so ingrained which is why whenever any of us see a sista of beauty wherever and whenever appreciate and compliment her.
I agree, it isn't just this white ran media glorifing blonde women but also some in the black community that looks down on dark skinned women while praising lighter black women for being beautiful. All you is look at some the post here like the one on the most beautiful proformer where men and women mostly commented on women like Halle, Beyounce, Vanessa Williams and other light brown to fair skinned black women.
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Posted: Monday June 28th, 2004 05:57 |
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BLEACHING UR SKIN COULD BE THE STUPIDEST THING ANY1 COULD DO. I HAVE SEE PPL IN AFRICA THAT HAVE BLEACHED THEIR SKIN AND GREEN sh*t HAD ACTUALLY COME OUT OF THEIR FACES, IT WAS SOOO NASTY. PPL SHOULD NEVER THINK ABOUT THAT, THEY SHOULD JUST BE TRUE TO URSELF AND BE PROUD OF WHO THEY R.
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Posted: Thursday July 15th, 2004 08:18 |
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Hello All,
I was hoping someone can help me. I'm a freelance writer who is researching into the fascinating practice of skin bleaching.
I've got lots of scientific comments, but I also want to feature someone living in Britian who has been bleaching their skin.
If you would like to help out a sista, please send me a private message. You don't have to give your real name, just the reasons why you do it, what you use and how long you've been doing it for. I'd also like to know if it makes you feel better about yourself and what you hope to gain by doing it.
It's not going to bias and noone is going to judge. I just want you to tell it like it is.
Many thanks.
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Posted: Thursday July 15th, 2004 09:21 |
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| LOL!
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Posted: Thursday July 15th, 2004 09:35 |
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Hi Sorry runfromyourwife,
I don't get the joke...
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Posted: Thursday July 15th, 2004 09:53 |
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Well for me its beyond a joke. Maybe I should write a book about the "fascinating practice" of gun crime in the UK. Equally fascinating was the practice of lynching.
What the hell you gonna find out that anybody off the street cant tell you about skin bleaching.
Fascinating practice.
>kisses teeth loudly< (had to teef that runfromyourwife)
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Posted: Saturday July 17th, 2004 02:38 |
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Where pursuit of fairness highlights colour bar
Jeevan Vasagar in Khartoum
Saturday July 17, 2004
The Guardian
The stereo throbbed with the latest Lebanese ballad and a European football match unfolded silently on the big screen as the waiter set down the drinks: fruit juices and milkshakes. In the dimly lit surroundings of one of Khartoum's hippest bars, young women slid their headscarves down to their shoulders and sat on sofas holding their boyfriends' hands.
They were the modern face of Sudan's capital, but their conversation reflected a traditional anxiety.
"My mother says that if I gave her all the money I spent on hair-straightening products, she'd be a rich woman," one woman said. Her copper-coloured skin reflected her Arab heritage, but it required a dedicated chemical battering to remove the mark of her African genes from her glossy, jet-black hair.
Her companion smiled and slipped off her headscarf to reveal straight hair cropped close to the scalp. "My mother can't understand why I cut my hair," she said. "She says, 'You have dark skin, but at least you had that long hair.'"
Across Africa, straightening hair and lightening skin is considered an essential part of good grooming for women. Pharmacists' shelves are stacked with bleaching and defrizzing products, some of which contain levels of damaging chemicals that would be banned in Britain.
But in Sudan it is not just a question of vanity, but politics. The Arab world and sub-Saharan Africa meet in the continent's biggest country, which stretches from the fringes of the Sahara in the north to equatorial marshland and jungle in the south.
Even the country's name contains a reference to colour: Bilad al-Sudan means "the land of the blacks". Skin tones range from the nut-brown of northerners of Arab descent, to the aubergine-black of the southern Sudanese. The perfect tint for a woman's skin is described as "wine-colour" - not a reference to grape wines, but the golden honey wine fermented in the horn of Africa.
Islam urges its followers to treat all Muslims as equals and in Khartoum's mosques, black believers and Arabs pray together in fraternity. But in wider society, a colour bar is evident.
The men laying tiles, digging foundations or watering lawns are always black: tall, shaven-headed southern Sudanese dressed in sweat-stained vests and baggy cotton slacks.
The dusty children who tap at car windows to beg are invariably black, too.
At one traffic-snarled junction, I saw an impatient driver lean his head out of the window and snap " abid " at a persistent child. The word means slave.
Behind Sudan's dysfunctional race relations is a history of slavery. Khartoum was once a slave trading centre, in which the black southern Sudanese were the human commodities. "We are the grandchildren of those who were being sold like goods," said the Reverend Enock Tombe, at Khartoum's Anglican church, All Saints. "But now we are saying, 'We are your equals.'"
The prejudice takes its ugliest form in Darfur, where predominantly Arab Janjaweed militiamen have used racist epithets while raping black women. The women have spoken of being called zurgha (black) and abid . In some cases, women have reported that their rapists told them, "We want to make a light baby."
If Sudan is to make peace with itself and heal the divisions which have ravaged it for years, some Sudanese believe it must first address the race question. Mr Tombe said: "When you come to the crux of the matter, these northern Sudanese are the same colour as the Eritreans and the Ethiopians, but they call themselves Arab.
"Then when they go to Arab countries like Egypt, the Arabs say, 'No, you are African.' So they have an identity crisis. "We, the Africans, have to assure them that we are one people, 'You don't look like us, but you are our brothers.'"
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Posted: Saturday July 17th, 2004 03:13 |
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Damn!
And some people find the whole white supremacy bit and how it influences Blacks "fascinating". I say they are most definatley taking the piss. Black or white.
I dont like this:Behind Sudan's dysfunctional race relations is a history of slavery. Khartoum was once a slave trading centre, in which the black southern Sudanese were the human commodities. "We are the grandchildren of those who were being sold like goods," said the Reverend Enock Tombe, at Khartoum's Anglican church, All Saints. "But now we are saying, 'We are your equals.'"
We here that over here as well. To me its called begging. What else can it be?
The identity crisis angle is crucila too. Here we can see a case point in the present and recent history where if there is integration in a white supremist mind set then the Africans might as well kiss everything goodbye.
These are another set of leechers to my mind that have to be forced out of Africa. Any African that wants to convert and give these Africans full status as Africans is deluded at best. When will we stop accomadating all and sundry.
And theres nothing wrong with Arabic. Its like those folls who protest to keep rascism out of football. How the hell u gonna do that when the country is infested. Same as Islam. Arabic culture seems to be based on the same premise as western culture. And its not new to them either.
This is what I meant on another thread about the war of the mind. Im beginning to feel that it is equally important as any physical war.
Or it seeps in and kills resitance at source.
Who makes these bleaching creams? Any multinationals involved?
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Posted: Sunday July 18th, 2004 18:14 |
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| Hmmmm I smell a rat....Is it that you want to bleach your own skin and are looking for tips?
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 03:08 |
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I bleach CERTAIN parts of my skin. (My legs) I do this because of scars that I have. I don't do it because I want to get lighter, cause I am not dark but even if I was, I would accept me for me. 
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 03:28 |
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Respectfully. There is nothing to accept about being dark.
Its something to have pride and love not accept.
Without wishing to sound callous. If you accept you for you.. why bleach. Surely there is a more health concious alternative to your scars.
Its not good for you sis.
Just my view.
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 07:39 |
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OK I'M LIGHT BROWN WITH DARK PATCHES OVER MY BODY COS OF MY ECZEMA, WHERES THE BEST PLACE FOR ME TO BUY SKIN BLEACH, OR WOULD A BOTTLE OF FLASH LIQUID WITH BLEACH DO THE TRICK? AND MY FACE SEEMS TO BE DARKER THAN THE REST OF MY BODY. PEOPLE LOOK AT MY FACE AND THINK I'M LYING WHEN I SAY I AM LIGHT BROWN, BUT THEY BELIEVE ME WHEN THEY SEE MY ARMS, LEGS AND CHEST. HOW CAN I OVERCOME THIS PROBLEM?
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 07:43 |
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| FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE TOO DUMB TO REALISE, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC, AND HOW BLACK BUTTERFLY CAN CALL SKIN BLEACHING FASCINATING MAKES ME THINK SHE EITHER ISN'T BLACK HERSELF OR IS LOOKING FOR TIPS ON HOW TO BLEACH HER OWN SKIN. TRY DOMESTOS BLEACH!
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 08:22 |
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Bleaching,
well it is just not confined to Sudan, Nigerians, Jamcians, Serre Leone, India the list goes on all bleach their skin.
BUT without getting into Arab,African tired rambling, I will answer the question
Do I bleach?
NO
Why do people do it?
because they want to be white, which is seen as better
Can we stop it?
I hope so
How?
I have not got a foggiest clue
Do I know someone that bleahes?
Yes, but will not mention nationalites
I hope that was fascinating for you
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 13:25 |
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Sooofresh wrote:
Why do people do it?
because they want to be white, which is seen as better
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Also, many black men have a preference for light skinned women. If you're not light, bright and darn near white, many of them won't even look you're way. Just listen to some of the lyrics of black artists.
Many of these women are bleaching their skin because they think that it will make them more beautiful. I think skin bleaching is wrong, but I can understand why they do it though. Every women wants to feel beautiful.
Black Butterfly, there are plenty of forums on the Internet that focuses on the topic of skin bleaching. If you want to learn about skin bleaching, you should visit the forums and ask the women. Many of these women are burning their skin with harsh chemicals and peels. Some of them even post pictures of their "progress". One women posted a picture of her leg. It looked horrible. The skin was peeling off and everything. She looked like a burn victim. This women claimed that after all the skin had finished peeling off her leg would be lighter. What these women don't understand is that all the scrubbing, harsh chemicals, and sun exposure will only make their skin darker.
I don't see anything wrong with having dark skin (I think it's beautiful), but many people do. Some people make it seem like having dark skin is a curse or something. To me it's just a skin color.
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 14:29 |
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| People want to be lighter skined or white because it is associated with wealth and prosperity,not because it is necessariloy beautiful. Come on, we all know that black don't crack but unfortunately in many places it doesn't pay either. So perhaps one solution might exist within an economic domain so that black can equal $$$ and prosperity.
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 17:37 |
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| If I go to a dermatologist it is going to cost alot of money. Those scars need to go. I would try to find out more about the health hazards but for right now bleaching those scars are the only alternative.
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Posted: Sunday July 25th, 2004 18:16 |
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@Tammyboo
try a chemical peel, my mum used on her scares and it disappered. They use naturall occuring acids like phenol.
http://www.skincultre.com
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Posted: Monday July 26th, 2004 00:18 |
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| Thank you sooo fresh. I would try it. I just want these scars to hurry up.
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