A bleached skin. [Photo/worldstarhiphop.com]
Skin bleaching is one of the saddest things that most African girls expose themselves to.
We are living in a community that does no appreciate the beauty that lies behind having black skin.
We have been made to believe that being a light skin is the way and the trend to follow which has led girls to do some crazy things which left them with crazy side effects including the following.
Bleaching your skin causes irritation.Just having an irritation on your hand or your leg is disturbing enough.You would not even want to know how irritating it is on your face.To avoid such discomfort and disturbance, stay away from bleaching and maintain your natural skin color.
The chemicals that are used to manufacture these products contain elements that may cause skin thinning.This is the worst experience one can ever have to go through since it changes your normal life.Things you would enjoy doing before like sun busking will no longer be available to you.You will have to hide your self a lot of times and cover most of your body parts.
Skin bleaching also has the potential to cause damage to your skin and also your liver because some of these chemicals penetrate to the blood which will leave you with adverse side effects.The damage might be extreme to the point that you are left with skin cancer which is had and also expensive to treat.
Your ability to heal also reduces because the skin has been damaged making the healing process much slower and more painful than it would have been.