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| Many cultures worldwide prize face-lightening as beautifying. Photo by Dam Tu'ong Quan from Pexels |
"But is no problem. Really works."
"No thanks."
"All Bollywood stars use this brand!"
I really stopped and regarded this migrant brother from the land of my father's mother: his skin almost the same shade as mine; his hair the "straight-curly" of a few of my uncles and many of my cousins; his smile wide, warm and without skulduggery.
I could make nothing out of his insistence. It was perplexing. It was funny. It was sad. Sad for him, I mean. Sad for those like him, who feel like him, who feel it is natural to feel like him.
It's on a massive scale throughout the world now, the tout: Use these face-creams to take out dark spots. But the dark spots they seem to mean is your skin. Like ... your whole skin.
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| Funny how natural Nature feels it is to make beauty out of both light and dark. Photo by Jhaye-Q Trinbago from Pexels |
What brought my variant peoples to this? What made us all hate our colour so?
"I could never be a Bollywood star, brother. I love the skin I'm in. I'll just take the earrings, leave the cream, keep my complexion."
And I did. I do.
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