Skin whitening commercials

[CocoaBrotha]

I just finished doing a journal titled: What Do I do Next. Within a span of 6 minutes, I saw 5 skin whitening commercials..count em! 5!. Too me, this is ridiculous :roll:

for Starters,

The commercials are misleaing and portraying darker-skinned as odd, ugly or freakish looking? That ain't funny, there's nothing funny about how they present it. Unless ya got the brain and intelligence of a buzzard, you can see that they're using CGI.

I'd hardly see any of this in America where most would raise a stink over it as to say" If it's white it's alright, and if your black, stay back"

Yeah, I know. This has been talked about a quintillion times.comments........... :?

[Ann_Pattama]

i prefer not too tan skin 8)

[shortyg]

i'm with you bro

black/dark skin is beautiful

Me too

Hey Marty we are so lucky where we live, we got beautiful people from all cultures and nationality in our little part of of London.

It's great I love it here

[iBatch]

i'm with you bro

black/dark skin is beautiful

Agree!

I like my tanned skin :wink:

[CiaranM]

I just finished doing a journal titled: What Do I do Next. Within a span of 6 minutes, I saw 5 skin whitening commercials..count em! 5!. Too me, this is ridiculous :roll:

Bro u r gonna need bucketfuls of the stuff not those little tubes they sell here !! :shock: :shock:

but never worry we love U just the way U r ...

wel Piant does anyway !!! :twisted: :roll:

[biachung]

and here we have commercials trying to sell skin TAN lotions so you can look darker

[GuessWho]

loads of fake tan here too..

i dont use any whitening lotion..cos i think they just talk crap..its in ur gene..how can u change it...

[farang_subson]

Yeah...what could be more educating about cultural differences than comparing commercials in different countries?

My understanding is that those creams actually do work to a small extent. But you can't get your skin to be any lighter than the areas where the sun doesn't shine...that's the limit.

Personally, I don't care about skin color. My eyes and brain are drawn to the face and legs. But...I had a black friend tell me that there actually are black women who use skin lighteners in the U.S....it's just something you don't see advertised. Spike Lee touched on some of these light skin/dark skin class distinctions inside the black community in a couple of his early films...it seems like the light skinned girls were perceived as more "hi-so". No?

[eagle]

I Like black girls :wink: brown :wink: white ,any color ..........

[zeusbheld]

I Like black girls :wink: brown :wink: white ,any color ..........

turquoise? :shock:

you must be captain kirk...

[dannyboy]

I had to laugh the other day, i was in Big C and a guy was buying some " Nivea for men " whitening cream .

Without being rude to anyone he was blacker than black, a real dark Thai guy.

It would have taken more than a bottle of that stuff to to make him a whiter shade of pale........... :shock:

[khun_lung]

I'm not convinced that the cream works at all. Well, if someone told me Michael Jackson uses it I might believe it. I'd like to see a test where a really tan lady applies it to half of her face and waits for a difference to appear. I think it probably works about as well as anti-ageing cream!

[shortyg]

Spike Lee touched on some of these light skin/dark skin class distinctions inside the black community in a couple of his early films...it seems like the light skinned girls were perceived as more "hi-so". No?

Yep bamboozled is a good example of this

One of Lee's early films about black guys performing a minstrel show on TV.

[stegee]

and don't forget the nipple pinkener cream!!

[MikeAussieGuy]

Jay uses a very good one, he was asked to appear on a commercial but Kitty stopped him as she was afraid he would become a sex symbol.

[JumpingJohn]

I used to be a black man. This whitening gel really works!

[GoldMember]

Go for the skin whiteners that contain mercury.

Very effective.

You apply heaps,let the body absorb,die,then wait for the whitening effect to really kick in.

[kfg_johnny]

and don't forget the nipple pinkener cream!!

stegee.. they get those tatooed to make then pinker.. no need for a cream...

Dont ask how i know stuff like this!!!

but in North America, Spray tanning is all the rage now.

Guess we always want what we cannot have or want to be soething different than what we really are.

[Hullboy]

I'm not convinced that the cream works at all. Well, if someone told me Michael Jackson uses it I might believe it. !

My mates got the pigment skin condition Michale Jacksons got only in reverse hes slowly turning black. I swear this on my life.

These creams are used in abundance in Africa, by black women wanting to be lighter, theyre meant to cause all sorts of long term problems.

I thought the aim of these creams is for more say a Japanese skin tone, as opposed to looking like a farang, i may be wrong on this but as ive never been wrong about anything ever in my life i doubt it.

[Hullboy]

If I went home now, everyone would think I've been in Salford, not spent the last 7 years in Thailand.

You full of bullet holes or something.