Why People Risk Their Lives To Bleach Their Skin | Shady | Refinery29
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Publicado 2019-05-25
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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WATCH NEXT: We Transform Human Remains Into Soil For a Living - youtu.be/hYTIh2cXfvM
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Curly hair: wants straight hair Straight hair: wants curly hair Light skin: wants tanner skin Brown skin: wants lighter skin Thin: wants to get curves Curvy: wants to be slimmer Suffice to say, I think the issue is that self-acceptance is a battle we all undertake
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The luckiest people are those who don't care about how they look.
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I am love my skin colour, but I now realize my skin color is a huge privilege, yet I see girls whiter than me paying thousands to get tanned every month. Everyone wants what they can’t have!!! But y’all are beautiful. Black skin is angelic, brown skin is angelic, yellow skin is angelic and white skin is too.
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As a Filipina woman, I thank you so much Thony for your work. You deserve the recognition and amazing dedication to help the Filipinos.
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Honestly, I just want clear skin not lighter skin 😭
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“Pretty but dark” that woman is so light skinned though.
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Beauty fades but dumb is forever.
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literally in Asia, being seen as poor and low-class by ur neighbors and be neglected by your society on a daily basis because ur skin is dark is an unfair feeling, it's not about the racism or any xenophobia, it's literally classism and colorism
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"The grass is always greener on the other side". While people in Asia are risking their lives for getting lighter skin, those in the West are tanning themselves to the point of skin cancer.
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Please don't stop this "Shady" episodes. They are very educational to people.
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"but why do people take these risks at all" why because our society is messed up and thinks people are ugly with darker skin so people dont feel pretty and bleach their skin thats why...
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We need people like these two, because us Filipino love to bargain when we cannot purchase the best, and this is what happens to a lot of us because we are so desperate to look classy. We need to accept what we are and who we are, nobody is ugly, we are all unique in our own way, and I hope we all learn that lesson, so nobody will get hurt!!!
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“Who taught you to hate the colour of your own skin?”- Malcolm x
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dark skin is beautiful, pale skin is beautiful, tan skin is beautiful we just live in a judgmental world
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I live in the Netherlands and my ancestry is Pakistani. One of the biggest issues about Pakistani people even here in the west is that they’re obsessed with having white skin. Some people are not able to get married if they’ve dark skin and some guys who have naturally tanned skin prefer having a wife who has fair skin. I absolutely hate it when someone uses “you’re gori chitti”(you’re as beautiful as a white girl) as a compliment.
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This doctor looks disfigured herself... scary
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If your cosmetologist's face can't even move, it's indication you should run.
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This world is trash. Skin is literally just an organ. We are mistreating each other over an organ Pathetic.
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I am mixed and have naturally tan skin. Not too long ago, I hated my skin color, and wanted to be whiter. I was jealous of my classmates who had lighter skin. I even said to my mom, “I don’t want to be called an Afro Latina, I am white!” But then, as time passed by, I grew to love my skin the way it is. There is nothing wrong with being white or pale, and there is nothing with being dark. Everyone is beautiful in their own way!
