Today in Mali women are beaching their skin in order to look like what they think is beautiful. They embellish their skin with these creams that kill pigment, but that's not all it does. The creams are in no way salubrious; these creams can give the user cancer and blemishes, and putting it on is said to be extremely irritating and painful. All this just to get a more pallid skin tone. Women in Mali even go as far as saying that if you don't bleach your skin there will be no dowry in your future. They say that men are salacious of women with bleached skin, and that no man would marry a women without it.
The few women who choose not to use these skin creams are in no way jovial. These women are frowned upon by society. One woman said she was asked to stay out of some wedding pictures because of her dark skin. This is not just a harmless trend, these women are being out casted because they decide to keep their mesmeric natural skin color. This bleaching is a fashion statement that might not ever go out of style. Young girls are ebullient to get their hands on these harmful, popular products, and they will pass their passion for these products down for generations.
To read the article I read before writing this entry go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/718359.stm
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