Why do women like bleaching???...Most Kenyans are known with a very Dark-black skin color but seems like most of the wealthy ones love to embrace white color due to pressure and demands from their male partners.
A worrying beauty trend has emerged in Kenya for illegal 'skin-bleaching' injections which dramatically lighten the skin's pigment.
Popular among the Kenyan elite and costing around $70 a pop, the process involves injecting mercury-containing creams which are intended to be applied topically, allegedly because they work much faster to lighten the skin that way.
Beauticians claim the injections can make customers look six years younger and their skin a shocking ten shades lighter, and they are gaining particular popularity on Nairobi's River Road - a busy marketplace notorious for it black market commerce and bribed law enforcement.
Rose, a River Road-based beautician and purveyor of the illegal treatment, claims the injectable substance is so 'strong', it is capable of turning customers into 'albinos'. She has been treating her own skin for five years and her previous, much darker skin tone is only visible in the patches of skin around her knuckles and elbows.
'The injection lightens you from inside. It makes women clean', Rose tells the publication. 'Most of my clients are wealthy and some are national celebrities.
Mercy says that her dream is to be 'as white as a European' and her motive is this: 'My husband prefers half-caste women to darker girls, and he is proud to be mine when we go to the club. I get far more male attention now I am lighter.' Mercy cries out when the needle pricks her skin but after the injection she seems pleased that she went through with it. Grinning she gives a shrug and says, “Nairobi is very competitive and Kenyan men like women with whiter skin.”
When she gets back from the pharmacy Rose carefully prepares the injection and I take a look at the treatment's packaging.
The instructions indicate that it should be applied as a cream, rather than injected. The pink liquid is described as an “exfoliating pigment erasing solution which peels off rough/tough layers of skin.”
God help them...
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3 comments :
This is so dangerous. All for beauty?
Hmmmmm, why will someone take a fast train to their death?
Lool, ify oh leave us oh . anyway its Sad , but Kenya men dont really care this is al Women, n ify we have many Fair tribes.many .history with arabs, ,portugese n brits never mind the natural ones so Stand corrected no pressure.but hey its never that Serious.
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