(Featured Image Credit: Aishwaryaaraiii) Fair and Lovely — the highly sought after skin lightening cream sold in nearly every store and marketplace I visited as a child in my hometown of Bangalore. I often found myself examining the models featured on every product, positioned in order from lightest to darkest; the fairest-skinned model being the focal point […]
Some of the African ladies that I knew also tried to use skin lightener and make-up to look lighter at least in the face. And if one had a partner with lighter skin than anybody else, one was considered privileged. But then came “Black is beautiful” and hopefully changed all that. I don’t know though, whether this also predates European colonialism or not. But that is not really important, is it, important is that it stops.
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Agreed!
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You know what the “funny” thing is? In Northern and Western Europe it is the exact opposite. A dark sun tan is a sign of wealth, because it shows that one can go on holidays all the time, maybe own a luxury yacht. People even go to the solarium to get tanned.
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It’s so sad that this issue continues to lower the self-esteem of so many around the world. Beauty cannot be reduced to a color. Ecclesiastes 3:11 reminds us that God has “made everything beautiful in its time”. I look forward to God’s Kingdom when all wickedness will be done away with and everyone will be able to see past skin color (Revelation 21:3,4; Psalms 37:19,11).
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