Skin Bleaching Products Being Sold Out In The Open! And Apparently People Are Buying Them Like Water!

I was trying to enjoy and make the most of one of my days off from work. The weather was rainy and disgusting but I eventually just grew tired of being in my house. I needed to pick up some flexirods for my hair so that I could curl it and make it look less like stringy ass pornstar hair.

I decided to go take an adventure to Langley Park beauty supply stores. The Sally's Beauty Supply was having a sale on their nail polish and some of their relaxers. They seem to have a lot of cheaper products than some of the Korean owned Beauty supply stores. But their flexi rods were $8 a pack? No thank you ma'am! I would like to comeback to them to check out their Argan oil.

I walked to the other side of death highway know as New Hampshire Ave and went to the Korean owned beauty supply store. It was small and you can barely see any of the wigs or weaves. They had them hung up on all the windows and walls.I just prefer the large Walmart size beauty supply stores like the ones out in Prince Georges County.

Anyways, flexi rods at this store were only $3.99 per pack and I purchased 4. I went to browse around the store just to see if they had any other products that sparked my eye. Went down the aisle were all the soaps were and the entire aisle was stocked full of skin bleaching creams. These two West African ladies, mother and daughter, walk in and they start looking at the weaves and then they came near me with all the bleaching creams.

"I need a new cream for my skin. It's getting warmer and I need something stronger," said the daughter.

"Yeah, you getting dark already and it isn't even Summer yet," the mother replied.

The female Korean shop keeper then came from the register and showed them to some more skin bleaching creams.

The Korean woman handed her the jar and said, "This is a good one. My mom, my sisters and I use this one a lot. It's very popular in Asia."

Then the African woman asked me, "You should try it too. You are light this will make you Kim Kardashian complexion."

My mouth was literally hanging on the ground and I replied, "No, thank you miss."

I quickly paid for all of my stuff and got the hell out of there. What kind of fuckery and foolishness did I just witness? I know that skin bleaching exists but I didn't know that people were this open about it. Especially here in America.

That was a sad state of affairs. Not only does Colorism exist within the Black community here in the Western World, it's a global phenomena within almost every non-White community. Indians, Koreans, Dominicans, Nigerians, Brazillians, Ignore warningPersians, etc there is always some form of light skin vs. dark skin or good hair vs bad hair, bad nose vs good nose.

We live in a world where lighter skin, straight hair, light eyes and thin are what is the standard of beauty. Most people in their world do not fit this description and they will do anything even risking their own lives to achieve this standard. I'm not angry at these women for resorting to bleaching. I feel sad for them. I can relate to them.

I'm not the lightest or darkest woman ever but I always hear dumb remarks from people about my skin color or hair texture.

"You look fine for a dark-skinned/black girl."
"You would look like a dime piece if you got a relaxer."
"I don't date dark-skinned girls."
"Man, your hair nappy anyway!"
"That's why I only date light skin women because they don't have attitude like you dark bitches!"

I was mad at these statements before now I laugh at this self-hate. There is nothing wrong with having a preference but don't generalize or throw one group completely under the bus just because you are not attracted to them. I used to get these comments a lot when I was younger and I rarely hear this foolishness. All you can do is laugh ignorant and insecure statements such as those. You can't let a few idiots take away your shine. If one asshole says he doesn't care for your apples, then  there will be plenty of more that will eat them like they are covered in Nuetella, mollys and crack.

I don't give a fuck what anyone says. I'm gorgeous inside and out. I'm a perfect 100 and I'm always in-style and in season. I don't care what society says about my looks. I don't need to pass anyone's test. I'm me and I love my looks and body. No one else can tell me otherwise.