This is a very interesting article, please read:
I have observed that the amount of Nigerian
women who bleach their skin has reached
epidemic proportions. There has to be something
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hat motivates these women to bleach their skin,
and one of the alleged motivating reasons I have
heard is that Nigerian men prefer “light skinned
women.”
To that end, I feel compelled to clear some
misconceptionsc that may be motivating our
women to bleach their skin.
1. Not all Nigerian men like light
skinned women. In fact, many Nigerian women
prefer beautiful, dark skinned women who have
that beautiful glow. There is nothing as
disappointing as seeing a beautiful dark-skinned
woman damage her skin by bleaching it, thereby
damaging that skin forever. The beautiful dark-
skinned woman now becomes an ugly “light-
skinned” woman. Beauty comes in all shades,
both dark and white. Even the Nigerian men who
like light-skinned women prefer a natural light-
skinned woman, not a bleached product. If a man
does not like your natural complexion, then that
man is not meant for you. What if you bleach your
skin white then you find the man of your dreams
who prefers your skin darker? You cannot
damage your skin to please those men, for in a
bid to please those men, you end up displeasing
other men.
2. Bleaching your skin makes you look ugly. In
fact, bleaching your skin makes you look ugly.
Yes! I said it. There is nothing more unattractive
that having uneven skin tone as a result of
bleaching; Or there is nothing more annoying than
having a “white face” and black neck, or a “white”
forehand with black knuckles. Yes. An observant
eye like me will notice your black knuckles
alongside your “white” fists. It looks disgusting.
Once I notice those inconsistencies I shy away
from women like that.
3. Bleaching your skin makes you stink. In fact,
any time a girl who bleaches her skin comes
around me, I run away because of the offensive
odor she effuses. Although she would have
attempted to mask the offensive
odor with strong and excessive use of
perfumes, the result is even worse, as the
offensive odor typically competes with the scent
of the excessive perfumes, and the offensive
often prevails with a vengeance.
4. Bleaching your skin typically forces you to
wear heavy make-up, which makes you look like
a caricature. In fact, the resultant imperfections
caused by the bleaching cream prompts many
women to wear heavy make-up to cover those
imperfections. Those women end up looking like a
transvestite or a clown who is appearing in a
circus. End result? You end up appearing as a
joke, and no serious man will take you seriously.
5. Bleaching your skin wipes away your purity,
natural beauty, and youthful exuberance! Being
pure means undiluted. Being natural means
something exists as nature made it. Having a
youthful exuberance means you have that glow
that radiates from within as a result of being
youthful. Regretfully and unfortunately, bleaching
your skin obliterates all these characteristics. You
are no longer a pure woman because you have
diluted your skin tone by bleaching it. You are no
longer natural because you no longer exist as God
made you, for you have bleached the natural skin
color that God gave you. As to youthful
exuberance, it is now long gone, for you now look
like a beat-up, used-up “Tokunboh” engine that is
being sold in Mushin. You no
longer have the “new car” look.
6. The heat and sunshine in Nigeria does not
foster an environment in which to bleach. As you
can tell, I vehemently oppose bleaching your skin.
Nevertheless, bleaching your skin in Nigeria’s
weather is like smoking a cigarette in a non-
ventilated room. You will gasp for air. Nigerian
weather is hot, sunny, and very humid. In addition,
the unstable power supply does not allow many
women who bleach their skin to power their air-
conditioners round the clock, save for the very
few who can afford the high cost of diesel to
power their diesel-thirsty generators. The result
is that you have to bleach your skin and walk in
the sun and in the heat. Since the melanin in your
skin (which was meant to protect your skin) has
been damaged, your skin therefore loses its
protection from the sun. Your skin is now highly
susceptible to being damaged by the sun (and
most times it gets damaged by that sun). Your
skin now has black patches and starts to effuse
the offensive odor I discussed in Paragraph 3.
When you include the heat factor I mentioned, the
odor that your bleached skin produces in that heat
is often unbearable.
5. Bleaching your skin sends a message that you
have low self esteem. Yes, it does. It tells me that
you are not comfortable in your own skin and
there felt compelled to bleach your skin in order
feel better about yourself. It says you do not like
how God made you. Low self esteem often
dictates how you will act in other
circumstances; for example, how you will be able
handle herself in the midst of learned,
sophisticated people.
6. Bleaching your skin will make you
look terrible at an old age.
Once you become old, your damaged skin would
look 100X worse than it would have looked had
you not bleached it. Your husband would be
desperate to find a younger, youthful woman to fill
that void. Bleachers take heed.
7. Take care of your skin, drink lots of water, get
plenty of rest, and your skin will glow. Taking care
of your skin is a precondition to making your skin
glow. You take care of your skin by having a good
skin regimen, having a proper diet, drinking lots of
water, and getting plenty of rest. You don’t make
your skin glow by bleaching it. To the contrary,
bleaching your skin damages your skin. I am a
concerned Nigerian man who is appalled by the
alarming rate of our women who bleach their skin,
and I have made it part of my life’s mission to
stop skin bleaching in Nigeria.