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| By: | Kontraband |
| Category: | Television |
| Length: | 39:25 |
| Resolution: | 512 x 368 |
| Filesize: | 194 MB |
| Language: | English |
| Viewed: | 1575 times |
Skin lightening is big business. The market for cosmetics to lighten darker skin is now reported to
...Skin lightening is big business. The market for cosmetics to lighten darker skin is now reported to be worth millions of pounds; Anita Rani (presenter of Watchdog and The One Show) is on a journey to find out why. Starting in her own family, with her mother's preference for lighter skin, she explores the pressures within the Asian community that lead a growing number of people to want to "lighten up".
Anita says: "I have never understood why fair equals beautiful because I love being brown. Through this film, I want to find out where this pressure to change your skin colour is coming from."
Illegal cosmetics are available under the counter in Asian and Afro-Caribbean shops up and down the country. Many illegal creams contain banned chemicals which pose health risks and can cause irreversible damage. Anita goes undercover to see how readily available they are, and she meets one woman who regrets ever using them.
She takes a hard look at the businesses that make money on the promise of lightening dark skin, and tackles the cosmetic distributors and lifestyle magazines that promote and advertise skin lightening products.
Finally, Anita tests one of the legal leading brand skin lightening products for herself. Will it work?
Broadcast on:
BBC One, 11:35pm Tuesday 27th October 2009
Duration:
39 minutes
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What's with the venom? Did I say skin lightening was a primarily African-American thing? No, so slow your roll, homeslice. I was just saying that the desire to be pale is a thing in the US as well. The desire for light skin has its roots in history in MANY countries, not just slavery. Do the internet a favor and drop your Black Panther bullshit. It's not a good look, honey.
Oh Really? Take a trip to India or the Philipines. No culture uses skin lightening products or has caste system and psychological problems based on dark skin more than those 2 cultures.
ANd those 'roots' you mentioned are the result of slavery and how 'massa' made the light skinned slaves 'house ni**gers' while the dark skinned slaves were forced to work the fields. As usual, the white man's perverted psychologically has ramifications on black people to this day. This same colorism doesn't exist in Africa--Black is Black in Africa, no matter what shade.