Oyinbo pepper if u “licki” pepper u go yellow more more!!!
Who remembers this song from way back when we used to be very young? It
was about being light skinned and 'oyinbo' was a term used to indicate white
people who are naturally of this skin tone.
I remember a few years ago I used to hang out with this very light
skinned friend of mine and we used to go out together a lot. Now I realised
anytime we go to events like parties, clubs etc she was the one that got all d
attention even when we are both dressed to the hilt.
Now I am not exactly an ugly duckling and neither was my friend a beauty
queen but it seemed her being light skinned made her more attractive. So I took
it upon myself to tweak my complexion a bit with 'toning' cream which isn't
supposed to bleach your skin but make you look lighter(crazy right?Lol)
Skin whitening, lightening,
or bleaching is using chemical
substances in an attempt to lighten skin tone or provide an even skin
complexion. Though some of these chemicals are effective, some have proved to
be toxic and in fact known to cause cancer.
Well I started using this cream in a tube and I kid you not, in about
3wks people started to rave about my skin, I actually started to turn into
'oyinbo' gradually by getting lighter and I started to get more attention.
Hmnnn....with this development, I bought more of this cream practically
in a carton and was using it faithfully especially for my face and neck and
being a sharp business minded woman I even started to sell to other ladies and
trust me I made serious bucks cos when I got compliments on my new 'fair' skin
I would tell them what I used to accomplish this.
Now fast forward to a few months later and I noticed my veins had
started to show vividly on my skin. Whenever I was in the sun and my arms were
exposed u could see a criss cross of green all over which were my veins showing
because my skin was gradually becoming very 'transparent' as opposed to my former
dark skin tone.
I ignored this and wore more long sleeved outfits but a few days later I
broke out in acne and serious pimples that stood out on my face and chest. They
were dark compared to my new lightened skin tone,then the worst of all, the
upper part of my cheeks now started to get dark in comparison to the lower
parts....arghhhhh I was getting burnt like toast bread!!!
Now get this, my naturally light skinned friend now told me the bad news that the sun
was burning my new 'man made' skin tone and she gave me a list of cleansing
liquid,sun screen cream and soap I had to start using to stop this negative
reaction!!!
I set out to get this stuff because by now all those who raved about how
beautiful I looked had started to point out that I was now looking wierd and
funny!!!! Oh and the worst part was all these items to help clear these dark
patches cost practically an arm and a leg....they were more expensive than the
tube cream which made me lighter in the first place.
It took me about 7 weeks to become 'oyinbo' but it took me over 5mths to
clear the dark patches and acne which were negative side effects of this action
and I forgot to mention that by the time I was done I was darker than when I
started out!!
Now why am I going on about this? I stumbled on an advert on facebook a
few days ago talking about skin lightening injections!!!! You get injected with
this stuff and you become light skinned overnight.
What caught my attention was the number of replies this post generated....thousands
of women were asking “how much is it? Please inbox me the price and where do
i get it”
I won't even go into the long list of 'celebrities' that have bleached
their skin in various shades and manner and you see black knuckles here and
there.
People, black is beautiful! You can actually be successful as a dark
skinned person contrary to seemingly public outcry to the contrary. The rave of
the moment, Kenyan Lupita Nyongo is VERY dark skinned and has won various
awards including the coveted Oscar award in the US. In fact just a few days ago
she topped the list of most beautiful person in the world on People magazine
which is no mean feat.
Let us become comfortable in whatever skin tone we have been given
naturally by God because there is always a downside in trying to change it.
Like the slogan of a popular advert says... “if it no be Pandadol, it no fit be
like Panadol”
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