about forcing women to be white skin to can get men for married her or she stay no marry and all men look to Europen and American women only cuz only have DNA skin to have white kids and beauty and this extremely toxic to Asians women in Asian cultures for all 48 countries in Asia !
all 48 Asian countries the same idea about white skin if Asian man not finding white girl he married white woman to have good white kids 😭 about forcing women to be white skin to can get men for married her or she stay no marry and all men look to Europen and American women only cuz only have DNA skin to have white kids and beauty and this extremely toxic to Asians women in Asian cultures for all 48 countries in Asia !
all 48 Asian countries the same idea about white skin if Asian man not finding Asian 👰🏻he married 👱🏻♀️ woman to have good 🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 kids 😭 about forcing women to be bright her skin to can get men for marry her or she stay no marry and all men look to 👱🏻♀️ women only cuz only can he have that fair skin from her DNA to fix color skin to get kids with fair skin and beauty and this extremely toxic all 48 Asian cultures get wild for fair skin
I’ve lived in both Japan and Europe for many years as an ultra white person. Eu friends: “I would feel ashamed wearing shorts with legs THAT white” Japanese friends: “Please tell me your secret to getting THIS white” It would be great if we could one day realize that a “beautiful” skin color is just a made up concept and stop shaming people + harming perfectly natural, healthy skin
Be aware that your skin also must be PERFECT if white, no redness, no blemishes, no marks or spots, brown or red, no nothing, literally they expect a BLANK canvas to be without imperfections, when it’s the shade where imperfections show the MOST.
@@PossibleBat wouldn't say that, dark skin is also prone to discoloration and blemishes fade more slowly, clear skin is it's own standard and ppl expect it no matter what
Same here, I'm pretty pale and don't tan well. When I was living in Europe people kept telling me I looked like a ghost and unhealthy and that I should "let my skin catch some sun". Once when I went out in a dress a guy on the street (a complete stranger!) stopped me and said I shouldn't show my pale legs, I was honestly lost for words. Now I am living in Japan and if I forget to put on sunscreen my skin tends to get red and you can see the line where it tanned and where it was covered by clothes/sunscreen. I've had several girls tell me what a shame it is that I let my skin got a little darker, I'm so white naturally so why would I do this😅
@@lavenderbambi3501 Clear even skin was the reason my mother demanded that I had to burn myself in the cancer beds. I first found out in my thirties that dark skinned people also struggles with blemished and uneven skin.
Perhaps a lot of issues would he solved by this. Though also... perhaps more issues would arise from it also? All of the squishy bits being on the outside seems... not great lol
Hey, I’m from India and the ad where the woman turns into a white blonde woman was actually a parody of skin whitening cream ads. It was trying to shed light on just how ridiculous the real ads can be. ‘9x’ the product shown in the racial transformation ad doesn’t exist. That being said, colourism is a big issue in a lot of Asian countries, including India. Great video!
My grandpa's family came to the US in the early 1900s from India. I love this part of my ancestry and love my medium toned skin, dark brown eyes and black hair; though it's more grey now than black. I think women from SE Asia are some of the most beautiful women in the world. Their yummy, warm skin is lovely.❤
I'm SE Asian, and growing up, my mom would complain whenever I got too dark for her liking. One day I told her, "If you wanted light-skinned children, then you should have married someone lighter, you know." Never heard her complain about my skin color since.
I must admit that is a very good point. What I find fascinating is, I am extremely pale, and my skin doesn't tan at all, I'm either pale, or lobster, there is no tan. And growing up people would say I needed to go out in the sun more and get a tan, or I should buy fake tan as I was too pale and apparently looked sickly.. we literally are the opposites
@@gemmacook1753 That IS fascinating, yeah! How skin receives the sun rays is widely varied, and it's interesting how some tan so easily, while others simply burn. But being pale isn't your fault and they shouldn't tell you to get a fake tan. There is beauty in your complexion, and people should mind their business if they can't appreciate it and you.
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 so it chelates naturally from the body? I meant more does it function well in lymphatic detox pathways, or is it reactive to an unpredictable degree. Just because it's used in soaps doesn't really answer the question, which is why I ask
I know the word "cringe" has kind of lost its meaning these days, but dear lord did I ever cringe at them holy crap they're SO BAD. I wanted to shrivel up into nothingness at the second one.
Colorism is huge in the African diaspora as well. It goes pretty deep. Depending on where you’re from, skin bleaching, especially for women, is alive and well. We immigrated from Jamaica 🇯🇲 to the US when I was a kid, so I didn’t really know it was prevalent until I was an adult. For some, the preference for pallor seems to be quite ubiquitous 🙄Thank goodness my brother and I were not brainwashed into hating our skin tones and not disdained by our family for not being as pale as our mother.
The whole skin bleaching thing is also in Mexican culture. My great grandma used to tell my mom to stop letting us play outside so we wouldn't get darker. Thankfully my mom was not down with that crap and let us play outside to our little hearts content lol
I was just about to leave a similar comment!! I remember growing up watching TV movies and ads and I would never see brown people like me and my family, just fair skinned actors !!! It’s so engrained in Mexican society!
Right and ever notice that in latino media, tv shows, music… all the actors and singers are just plain white people not even a single tanned person in sight 💀
@@snooozy_enby With a majority of the population in mexico being under 30, a lot of societal taboo are starting to fade , which to be fair is better for the country overall.
The difference is that we don't really have bleaching products available, I have seen just like 2 creams advertised to lighten skin in the last 20 years, but they're targeted to remove dark patches and even out the skin tone more than whiten skin. But yeah, we have a massive colorism problem. I'm a bit light skinned and the times I've been told I'm pretty just because of my skin shade is just sad.
This is why my part-South Asian Dad got very excited when I went white basically overnight...and then less excited when Mum insisted on taking me to the doctor and we found out I had anaemia. 😂
Makes me wonder how much it is about being too physically weak to function. Like wanting tiny, non muscular women is about being more vulnerable if things go south.
Most of those whitening products don't even have anything that could actually whiten because the only thing that can whiten is bleach or hydroquinone which is prescription based. So that's false advertising too. For example, Fair and Lovely (a very famous Indian fairness cream) contains niacinamide as it's whitening ingredient now (don't know about the 2000s) not even retinol which actually can lighten the skin by fading tan. It's sad they wanna capitalise on the insecurities of POC instead of launching a product that would genuinely benefit skin of colour.
The skin whitening products all over the shelves in Asia contain identical ingredients to skincare products in the west. In Asia, they market it as "whitening", in the west they market it has "brightening". They're typically plant acids that help reduce hyperpigmentation and make the skin more even, they will not and cannot bleach your skin. Skin bleaching products do exist, but they won't appear in supermarkets with slick "whitening" marketing, they are strictly regulated, only being sold in drug stores, with bland packaging and no slick marketing.
The way whitening brands until this day existed in my country because people believed that having fair skin make you more "respectable" or "prettier". People would ate this type of lie sadly.
skin whitening is rooted in elitism because the rich stay indoors, and poor work outdoors. it's incredibly upsetting that a hierarchy is formed based on skin colour.. :(
to be fair ...I do love the contrast that white skin gives ...especially for make up ....the darker the skin the thicker the make up just to make it pop ....
I don't know about other country but in my country if you have fair skin no matter how rude , arrogant and useless you are you will be treated as a queen. And if you have dark skin no matter what you do you will always be a looser and people's last choice . I being a woman who has the darkest shade felt it right from my childhood . Elders used to get disgusted just to touch me while they cuddle all my cousins and batchmates . I used to always get low score and my friends getting hight score for the same answer we all have written . It's really hard .
This is even a thing in black communities. I noticeably get hit on by black guys more often than my friends because I have light skin (thanks anemia) thankfully saying “i have a girlfriend” makes them go away
@@douglassmalone-omeally1683 Yup, made a lot worse. But unfortunately it also predates it: The rich spent most of their time indoors, the poorer folk spent a lot of time in the sun working hard manual labor, and thus the paler you were the more it implied you were rich enough to spend time indoors compared to those in your immediate region.
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I'm latino not asian but my dad has constantly told me he's glad I'm a little bit fairer skin because my life would be easier and people would like me better. It made me sad to know that was the kind of world I was born into, a place where people like my father were treated horribly and blamed for it
THIS, people are like "I get bad comments because I'm paper white" which of course sucks, nobody should ever be shamed for their skincolor, HOWEVER they're still part of the most privileged group in the entire world, not having a tan won't affect how they're treated and perceived in a restaurant, an airport, or any public space the way people of color get treated, for them having light skin is more than just aesthetics, it literally means a successful life.
@@katitadeb Sure white people globally are the least likely to experience discrimination but they absolutely will face problems when it comes to romance and anything to do with beauty in the west. Very pale skin is just not desirable at all, hence all the many tanning salons and fake tan products available.
I remember reading that a lot of Indian beauty advertisements use people who aren't even ethnically Indian. Like they'll put literal European people in their ads so that they'll have light enough skin to match the beauty standard. I can't imagine what growing up seeing stuff like that would do to a kid's brain 😔 Edit: Case in point--the lightening cream airport ad in this video 🤦♀ Edit #2: Someone in the comments said that ad in particular is a parody and THANK GOD lol
@@jeanane2038 girl yes it is true.. V***ina lightening and tightening creams are available in normal pharmacy over the counter. No prescription needed.
Not from India but Bangladesh, but it’s basically the same thing according to my mom. She told me that almost ALL her friends would use that stuff in hs and middle school (not her tho cause she’s light skinned) it’s genuinely so sad, but I’m glad my parents didn’t raise me with that ideology
meanwhile in america i'm fist fighting edward cullen in walmart for the only bottle of 001 pale porcelain foundation because no one else is built like a human light-reflector Edited for better word usage
This shit is what got me aware of shadeism in makeup, because I was like, "if my pale ass is having this problem, how bad is it on the dark end? ...oh. Oh no."
Just started the video but being told you’d be prettier if you weren’t “dark” is also something that happens in Latino communities. Thankfully my parents weren’t like that but when I was older and visited Mexico I did hear various family say that
Really? Not hispanic but I did have some friends who’ve told me the exact opposite. (Idk if it matters but they were from Chile, Argentina, and the DR I believe)
@@arissamazumderI'm not Latino either but I hear older people say stuff like that all the time. Especially when it comes to dating. "Don't date him or your kids might come out dark!"
@@arissamazumder it depends on the family (again my parents weren’t weird like that and if anything view pale skin as a sign of sickness) but society does tend to favor lighter skin and features. It’s why so much of our media often has people of European descent. And if you don’t match the standard you’d get called “India Maria” almost always as an insult. I’m surprised you mention Argentina though because they’ve always been the worst about this and look down on anyone with more native features.
@@idonotsparkle as far as I understand they accept Australian tan not "that's the skin tone I was born with" tan or the features that come with it. Source Colombian who had a language course with a group of Argentinians. In Colombia all that nonsense applies too although paler women are expected to have tanned legs that don't match their face at all (sometimes abs too). It's insane.
i was 8 when my sister was born, i remember i was in the waiting room with my grandma. we were allowed to enter into the delivery room after a few minutes to see my newborn sister and the first thing my grandma comments is "oh she's so tan". even at 8 years old i was flabbergasted that that was her first thought when she saw her newborn granddaughter. just shows how this whole fair skin vs tan skin is ingrained into our culture and how we view beauty.
It’s really crazy, and worse that no one blinks an eye at it. I’ve seen people take a look at someone else’s baby and have the audacity to call them nicknames based on skin tone! The parents are right there and either don’t blink an eye, or they don’t bother to call it out
I mean get that bag IG... plus it's kiiiinda a funny story to go to your mates and be like "they shoved me into a fucking washing machine and made an asian dude come out" like it's racist but so ridiculous I do see the funny side (I'm half african to be clear). Like it's so out of touch and cartoonish it's almost too bad to get actually offended
To be fair they probably had no idea what the commercial entailed before filming and signed a contract and couldn't get out of it. It's a common problem in the entertainment industry, especially in Asia as they often don't have the same union rules as in the USA that help protect actors and singers. They often make it practically impossible to back out of a contract and are often very vague with the job description.
As a naturally sickly pallid person, this has been an insane culture shock moving to Asia. The first times people told me "You're so pale" I was really upset and couldn't think why they were being so rude....
If it's because of an illness, I hope you get better... If you're just calling your skin tone sickly, it's not. All skin tones are pretty, just like gem stones!!
I'm not sickly but I've always had "marshmallow legs" as people called them, and people always told me to get a tan. I haven't visited Asia but just seeing some of the beauty standards is kind of insane because I'd fit more there.
the ice dessert thing is called "pisang ijo", this food is made from bananas wrapped in a green-coloured flour batter. The cooking method is steamed. The batter is made from flour, water, and green colouring made from a mixture of water and suji or pandan leaves. Pisang ijo is usually served with typical red syrup, sweetened condensed milk, white sauce made from a mixture of flour, coconut milk, and cornstarch, then topped with ice.
I thought this episode would be about how the “skin bleaching” products in asia are the same skincare products we use in the west for “brightening” and “anti aging”, except they highly imply you’ll get lighter skin. You won’t. Vitamin C, vitamin B3 (niacinamide) and Vitamin A (retinol) don’t change your skin color, but Asians firmly believe it will
I had no idea that popular skincare names are just vitamins! I actually had to google it. You taught me more than all the skincare channels I ever watched! How come none of them ever mention it? I thought retinol was like a super rare ingredient lol!!!
Exactly correct. It's marketing. "Whitening" in the east is "brightening" in the west. They won't change your natural skin pigment, but they are good for the skin.
@@smooveayy haha it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together as well! I think it’s a deliberate ploy by the pharmaceuticals. They can’t sell retinol for $75 if you realize it’s just vitamin A! (Not saying it’s not effective, it’s meant to be one of the best!) but I think it’s interesting how our most effective skincare are just assorted topical vitamins. Another 2 common in skincare are Panthenol (Vitamin B5) and Tocopherol (Vitamin E). Vitamin A taken orally is the revered Accutane, known for curing acne
@@TumblinWeeds Important to understand that a Vitamin A supplement is not the same as Accutane. Accutane, the brand name for isotretinoin, is a vitamin-A derivative namely 13-cis retinoic acid.
When people say that they get picked on for being pale and I’m like, sure, but this is not the same thing as literally being considered more deviant, criminal, uneducated, and inhuman for being dark. I need people to think.
lol right? all the pale white girls being like "in america i wasnt celebrated for my paleness until i went to asia and everyone LOVES me 🥰." Like u fine with racism working in ur favor?
I'm italian, and I've been so dark(due to being tanned) that I looked of another ethnicity, and so pale that people constantly commented about it in various phases of my life and.....yeah no, other ppl literally used slurs when I was too dark for their standards. In Italy is considered cool and sexy to stay in the sun and have a very dark tan(which is easy to achieve for most italians because we have the same olive skin of middle easterns), and the only period of my life I enjoyed being in the sun is when I was little, I'd stay for months at my grandma's house in Abbruzzo and pass at least 3\4 hours per day in the sun at the beach. This to say I got REALLY dark, and no kidding, other kids called me the N-word all the time and shooed me away because they thought I wasn't italian. I can only imagine what happens in societies that despise dark skin or that are even slightly more racist. Now that I'm pale AF(to prevent acne scarring and ageing) the comments that I get are mostly lighthearted mockings about my ghost skin, or that I'd look healthier if I got a bit of a tan. That's it. Anyone that thinks getting slurs and being discriminated is the same as someone saying "Omg you look like a ghost lol" is LYING.
@@DeadKraken it seems like people in general prefer skin tones that are at the middle (light olive or lightly tan/brown) and it seems like no one can win society's standards because people will always be seen as "too pale" or "too dark" no matter what. i also know some middle easterns especially some levantines who also have pale skin with slight rosy/ruddy tones that doesnt really tan easily, not all are olive skinned.
@@DeadKrakenReminds me of how the internet accused Ariana Grande of blackfishing and tried to use pictures of when she was lighter to prove a point. However, her mixed race look is likely because she’s Italian and there’s African somewhere in her bloodline.
They only thing that edvasian said in this video that I didn't like is when he said if your going to lighten your skin, how about not ever doing that at all
As someone who used to purposefully bleach their skin trust me, it’s not worth it!! The whitening effects are so superficial and detrimental to your health.
I wish the society would just let people be whatever skin tone they were born with. I'm a pale redhead, living in Finland. most Finnish people have either fair skin or are pale, though not everyone. My younger sister for example has darker skin than I have (but still light compared to people from some other european countries for example). Because of this majority of people will not comment anything about my skin tone, since majority of Finnish people have fair skin. To anyone thinking they should have darker or lighter skin tone: there's nothing wrong with your skin tone! Every skin tone is beautiful in my opinion, be it dark or pale.
The whole skin colour thing in different countries is so weird. In my country people are trying to be tan. Being tan equals being rich and "better than thou", at least in their heads. The skin cancer rate is higher than ever before. It's sad, really.
Because different countries have different cultures and people. Of course Indian people and Finnish people have different view on skin tone or beauty. Weird, isnt it?
“The grass is greener on the other side” is a very human mentality. People will never be satisfied. They always crave things they lack instead of appreciating things they have.
It’s quite sad how being tan or dark skinned is still viewed in a negative light. I can remember going on the internet as a kid and trying to find ways to lighten my skin tone because I viewed my tan skin as inferior and “dirty”.
Am African and we do this.. Aunty: "but why is the baby so dark. They would have looked better if they were light (brown)" Also they did not mean white..my tribe for example used to live albino children in the forest....😢..so be as radiant as the mid day sun
As a dark dark southeast asian, may nickname as child was Olin (which sounds like Uling = Charcoal 🙁😭) -- and yes i did use those whitening soaps in HS
@@h0neym00nl0ve0 Stay away from those products, it bleaches the dead layer of skin but it also damages your live skin and can straight up poison you, and your skin just gets worse ans worse with consistent use of such products
@@Tree-House69 its so sad that its been so normalize. But now i am more confident and comfortable with my skin - stopped using those products years ago
in Germany it's a total tabu to say stuff like ,,you're pretty because of this skin colour''. I'm pale for a latina (but I'm not white) and when I was in Peru so many people told me ,,you're pretty because you're a little white girl'' uuuuugggggggghhhhh
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Here in brazil is also common (deppending of the state) for white people to like just black/darker person. I know some people who does.
True for Germany. Skin colour has nothing to do with beauty. One of the prettiest women I have ever seen, was black skin toned - like charcoal. A deep blue-black, glossy skin. I tried not to look at her, it was in our subway, but I was mesmerised (and I am a woman) because she was so good looking. I really hope she is proud of her skin tone in our still mostly white people country.
As someone who was born without the ability to tan and my skin tone is printer paper white with rosey undertones...... stop trying to achieve this and stop thinking this is a level you want to achieve. I had melanoma at 14 and nothing works quite right on me. I think the body needs a little melanin to hold it together. And the amount of people who tell me I need a tan is just plain stupid. Let people be who they are peacefully and if they glow in the dark, put sunblock on them.
What irks me the most is that people pass on their skin-complexion traumas by preaching to their own children that whiter/lighter is better, even with earnest concerns about their child's welfare in life. It shows that there is a full awareness of a system of fair-skin privilege and yet no attempt to criticize or work against it. I can't imagine my parents telling me whether they are glad or disappointed that any part of my body turned out some certain way (that they are ultimately responsible for by conceiving me and raising me). In 2024, we have the opportunity to move beyond old and severely unfair systems of classism and racism by redefining what we truly value in others. Conforming to those systems isn't really doing anything courageous for oneself. You can't expect anybody to see you for who you are if you never present yourself as such. (And full disclosure, I have similar feelings about my fellow cis gay men who refuse to be open to anybody about their sexuality, even well into their 30s and 40s, and as a result constantly have very bleak feelings about their future relationships.)
I remember my mom, grandmother and sister literally scrubbing the absolute frick out of my skin and calling me dirty as a kid. My mom is literally the same color as me but used skin lightening creams. My sister was just naturally more light skinned with "good hair". I went through a long phase of wanting to lighten my skin but the more I looked into it the more I hated it. It's not something I inherently dislike about myself at all but I get really tired of being told that I look "dirty" in the summer because I tan. I'm pretty vigilant about sun protection but at this point I'm trying to focus on it being for HEALTH and not sun dodging. This whole industry is pretty messed up honestly. Like no not everyone using the products has some of the underlying issues that stem from colorism but it isn't exactly a medical treatment. It's ALL about aesthetic and social acceptance and that's EXTREMELY depressing.
Parents are your worst enemy when it comes to skin color. My mom would slather my skin in bleaching cream as a kid and tell me I need to be fair so I can get married later. She still tries to replace my soaps with skin whitening ones when I'm not looking. Nowadays I have the same attitude about sun protection that you do because being obsessed with fairness is exhausting.
seeing the kojie-san soap gave me flashbacks omg. i remember my cousins telling me it would "help with my acne" and i became whiter than the irish half of my ancestry, not to mention how drying it was on my skin 😭at least it smelled good 🙃
@katelyn_murray thank you ❤ i hope someday they will too. sadly, colorism (as well as fatphobia, but that could just be my mom's side of the family/region-exclusive) is still an issue in the philippines :c
@@charlieparkeris i will give credit where it's due in that it did help with some of my acne. if i do use it again though, it will be for spot treatment and not the full on "baths" i was suggested back then :)
I'm Mexican and we have the same thing. A lot of parents tell their brown skin toned kids to not play in the sun cause they will get darker. It's so sad 😞
My aunt is from viet nam and had some sort of whitening cream in the 2000s. When her and my uncle were still dating she stayed at my house and at a party my other white auntie used her face cream from the bathroom without knowing what kind it was . She wasn’t really a skincare girlie and just like rubbed it into her face and eyes hella hard , and was having the craziest reaction to her eyes ! I had only even known about it because I found vogue magazines from Japan and Korea at a hotel in 2004 and saw that every major designer brand promoting tanning products in the us had all these products covered in snowflakes marketed in Asian countries. I grew up in a very multicultural place in America but I never saw those things sold in America.
The Lisa discourse pissed me off so much. Her debut trainee video shows how tan she was as a kid. She’s Thai. Why is it so hard for people to understand 🤣
It really is a cultural thing. I'm from Scandinavia and I'm very pale. I can't get tan at all, I just get sunburned, red and scaly instead. In my teens I was so embarrassed about my paleness that I would wear hoodies etc in the hot summer just to hide how pale I was, when everyone around me had a nice summer tan.
I'm a Sri Lankan with dark skin and i have gotten many comments about my skin tone. Skin bleaching is a huge problem in Sri lanka as well as many countries in Asia like you just said. At the end of the day, I hope we can break this norm and be comfortable with being ourselves. I'd love that for us, since this obsession with white/ lighter skin has gotten too much.
talking about whitening it's not just an east and south asian thing arabs are also obsessed with it there is so many small businesses that makes whitening soaps and cream they call it "خلطات تفتيح" in gulf countries specially saudi it's everywhere in arabic tiktok
@@fatma0k Misses Iraq and majority of Lebanese actresses are heavily bleached. I don’t know for men , but Egyptian men bleach too. Haifa Webhe has stopped bleaching some years ago , but 10/15 years ago she was sooo pale skinned.
@DearBill there are for sure some artists who are dark but bfr who does the audience prefer or see as more attractive? Dark artisit or white ones? Like dude ask them arabs who is the most attractive artist and you will 1 out of a 1000 times get someone who's not pale asf for example ahmed ezz he sucks fr other than the horrible thinks he have done and people still like him he isn't even handsome he's just white
@@KatiaPavlovart pale skin is actually native to some parts of the middle east. look at samaritans, they never left palestine and lived there forever and they "look white", same with assyrians in syria and iraq, not to mention many arabs living in that part. there's also circassians and bosnians who came to live there, though they''re a minority of the reason. many white looking people in north africa too, both arabs and amazigh (especially kayble). the middle east is as heterogeneous as latin american countries
Filipino here - when I was old enough to be curious about make-up, my mom used to tell me to choose foundation that was at least 3 shades lighter than my natural skin tone so that I would give the appearance of being fairer. She would also have me pinch the bridge of my nose for a minute every morning when I woke up, and before I went to sleep. Of course when I started realizing that this was absolutely ridiculous, I stopped doing it. Its something that really affected me growing up, and just made me feel like I wasn't enough for my own parents.
It's funny this video would come up the same day my Thai friend was asking me what SPF I use because my skin is so bright...she's one of the prettiest girls I know though so I hope she doesn't feel bad about her complexion, her skin is flawless and she has clearly taken good care of her skin her whole life. I personally do hate the sun but it's because I work night shift and since I never see it, the few times I do, it gives me an unpleasant sensation on my skin like I'm being slowly cooked. I would never tan but that's for anti aging reasons.
I am as white as a sheet. One time I was in a swimming pool and I noticed everybody kept looking at me, I started looking at myself and saw my body was picking up/reflecting the blue color of the bottom of the pool. It was very light tint but I looked like the early states of becoming a smurf👥. People use to make degrading comments about being too white but I guess that has changed. I am glad I am comfortable in my own skin and everybody should be.
As a darker skinned Mexican growing up in California, I was always told to stay out of the sun because I was already too dark. When I grew up a bleached my skin for years. Ppl would be shocked by my new tone if they hadn't seen me in awhile. I got to be like 10 shades lighter than I originally was. It wasn't until my skin started to feel like it was burning just while I sat in the sun, that I decided to cut back. I have finally accepted my skin tone and stopped bleaching all together. Sometimes I miss the lighter version of myself but I just can't bring myself to do it anymore because I just love the sun and I love to go hiking and running. It's sad that there are many of us thinking we aren't good enough, but I suppose that's just life.
So about the 5:30 section… I really think it’s less about her individual skin tone and much more about the Kpop industries repeated appropriation of Black American aesthetics. Especially when we compare it to what Hyolyn just put out trying to be Tyla. She went full Ariana grande in that photo shoot, and I think we can all acknowledge that.
I'm not into k-pop as much anymore so Idk what controversy you're talking about. However, if you're talking about Hyolyn then she was always bullied for her darker skin tone since the very beginning, even when she was in sistar. Her last solo song that I heard was Dally & her concept has always been very sensual. She went through a lot because of her skin colour (which is ridiculous) & finally proved herself to be very talented, to the point that she was considered the gold standard for sexiness. Did she do something different recently for these accusations to come about?
The 9x fairness cream ad(the indian one) is not an actual product but a satire video produced by 9x cable channel to fairness cream ads in india. Nonetheless that is one of the harsh realities here. My whole family is dark skinned so I didn’t face any colorist remarks from my family growing up but that isn’t the case for families having both light and dark skinned people, they have it worse.
I found the India one to be ironically funny because compared to other East Asians like Thai, or Vietnam. Every video I've seen of India, the populace is mostly dark skinned brown people. I would say even compared to other "tan" ethnic groups Indians always seemed darker in skin color. So when I seen that Ad, with a European lady as Beauty Standard I couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculousness of it LOL. Like who is this for??? I get maybe wanting to lighten your skin 1 or 2 tones (not that I would ever do it) but 9x shade lighter too hahaha wtf
@@youalrightchief4770 it is lol but it is true that russian or ukranian women are often seen in ads or pictures for clothing such as sarees or chudidars etc depicting how the garment would look on an “Indian” woman. The irony haha.
@@youalrightchief4770there’s people of all skin tones in india and not everyone is dark like the media shows in the name of representation. Although not as much now but colorism was pretty prevalent back then and often because there are really fair indians and hence the comparison and ofc the eurocentric beauty standards prevail.
I was forced into an arranged marriage with an Indian guy (extremely abusive, but that's another side of the story. Am happily divorced now), and the amount of ads I would see for skin whitening creams and products was INSANE. I NEVER had in my life felt insecure about myself or my body or my skin or anything like that at all, but let me tell you something, the amount of ads and the narrative that was being pushed for """white supremacy"""" was out of this world. Absolutely disgusting.
God this just happened the other day.. Annoying seller that ignored body language and was like "look youre whiter" s***...no im not buying this cheap stuff with whatever inside it...and why did you just slather it on me without consent. Dont touch me, if im allergic to it im suing you
the shaved ice thing is called pisang ijo from makassar, sulawesi(one of the main islands in indonesia)! lit. translated to green bananas its bananas wrapped in this.. sweet dough (the green bit) with coconut porridge and ice (explaining this to you makes me want to order one ngl) if you ever have the chance you should def give it a try :)
I’m half Filipino and oh my god there are a lot of promotion of skin bleaching in the Philippines. In the Philippines the way you look can determine a lot about your social status.
It's crazy how some people in Asian countries obsessed with having very light skin and us gone through 2000s "trend" of having tan skin after bronzing creams and tanning salons. I never wanted to go through that because I have very pale skin and it's dangerous to be exposed to the sun a lot. One mean girl from my class always bullied me for being pale she said: you are like Snow White but dead version. Even my mom said that I look like a death cap mushroom 🙈 My bestfriend's dad made her go in tanning salon before Prom night it was crazy time.
The fact that they REUSED THE WASHING MACHINE AD IDEA BUT IN REVERSE????? Every time i thought i couldn't be more stunned this video kept proving me wrong
I got to educate someone on the benefits of sunscreen as they tried to tell me about a religion... they literally had no idea of the correlation between sun and skin cancer. Idk how this is relevant. Just felt like sharing lol
I remember being su desperate to be tan, I was finally living in my own, and had moved to Florida. I went tanning religiously and got pretty darn dark. I really regret it, and my mom was NOT happy when she found out because I had already had a pre-cancerous mole removed at age 8. I really hope I didn't cause any permanent damage 😢
@@klickingkayasmr7585 depends, i don't think your skin tone remains unchanged but there's def ppl walking around w white faces and tanned bodies cuz they only put it on face lol
I remember when I went to West Africa and apparently we were told thats its common for the men to force their wives to bleach so they are lighter skinned than them on their wedding day. So these poor women are bleaching their skin but instead of it getting lighter, it gets red and it looks like rashes on their face its honestly so sad and disturbing to look at.
I am dark skin African living in a town in the US where everyone is either white or tanned. And I absolutely love how I am standing out from the crowd. I never felt that I needed to change anything. I just put up the brightest smile 😁
As a almost translucent white person, the Asian beauty standards caught me off guard. I made my Indian friend a baby blanket for her unborn child, before I started I sent her a picture of the wool colour and she asked me to pick a lighter colour because the navy blue would make the baby look dark. I was so sad when I realised this was a genuine concern for her because her family would think the literal new born wasn't good enough if he was too dark.
the thing about people asking what color the baby is SOOO true like I watched my first hospital video with my mum a while back and the first thing that relatives commented on was that my skin was fair... and then I got darker as I grew older, which was a fun :,). Also, fair and lovely omfg I have such one-sided beef with them commercials (btw they used to have a whole chart on the packaging that you could cut out and use to check the progress of your skin whitening, so they can fuck off with trying to gaslight people into thinking they aren't a skin bleaching product pls-)
Being an Indian American Girl my mom would intentionally give me Fair & Lovely as a daily cream. She’s fair herself and I’m brown. I didn’t know the Fair & Lovely was a bleaching cream. Around High School Fair & Lovely was getting heat for their product as skin bleaching. After that, I stopped wearing Fair and Lovely and told myself I love the skin color I’m in. And never ever applied Fair & Lovely after that!!!! I love my brown dusky skin tone!
Just so many people know, “whitening” is essentially their way of saying ‘brightening’. Many of these products don’t have any bleaching ingredients that are toxic. They usually have vitamin C, glutathione, tranexamic acid and even niacinamide. Even kojic acid isn’t toxic (it’s just a really strong anti- tyrosine ingredient) but you have to use with caution. I’m only saying this so people don’t fear monger these ingredients that are much more than just used for skin whitening. Edit: I am not saying whitening is good, but I’m seeing many comments misinterpreting the word whitening when they use Asian skincare products, the ingredients I’ve listed are used even in American skincare and even Europe, and they do not give a great change in skin color, only two ingredients can do that and they are extremely harmful.
@@Cut_tape-x9j let's not pretend that the issue of strong colorism and misleading whitening ads does not exist or that harmful whitening products does not exist
@@Cut_tape-x9j Idk what you're talking about. There is no doubt a colorism issue in most of Asia. Brown and Black people still get ridiculed and forced into white-washing themselves. You can literally see it in these comments.
The companies say "brightening" on their products because the word doesn't carry the same stigma as "whitening" does. But it's just semantics because the one word is used as a proxy for the other, and in the local language, it's usually saying the same exact thing. Look at the teeth-bleaching products we have here in East Asia: they don't say "teeth brightening", they unanimously say "teeth whitening", and there's no worry about these chemicals being unsafe for the body. When it comes down to it, people want to look paler and less touched by the sun because there are strong societal pressures and deeply ingrained beauty standards that enforce light-skin privilege at the expense of darker-skinned people (many of whom belong to the same genetic population as the "lighter skinned" types). But the consumers also want to feel good about the "self-care" that they are giving themselves. It's a kind of product branding that feeds off of emotional insecurities. I personally don't think conforming to light-skin beauty culture is any form of combating it, but you do you...
As an Indonesian, I would totally recommend the shaved ice dessert thing lol it's called 'pisang ijo' or 'green banana'. Definitely one of my fav indonesian desserts😂👌🏻
I had this but with eye color. My brothers mother in law once came to me and said i would’ve looked better if i had blue eyes and how woulda been a ten. Wild honestly.
In my country where people are predominantly have white/pale skin, where tanning is encouraged to look healthier (I don't tan cause I'm afraid of melanoma and my skin burns from sun exposure pretty fast even with high spf, so my relatives always call me a ghost or "too pale" lol) whitening cremes and products still exist. They mean "anti-red" though, like they help with rosacea and stuff. In other cases they are sold as "anti-pigmentation" or "anti-freckles" which is nuts cause freckles are super cute, but a lot of people still doesn't think so, sadly. Interesting how same products are promoted to different cultures and demographics. This whitening products are from India and Korea most of the time btw, I think they are the same, but advertised differently.
Even here in Malaysia, (where many people have different shades of brown to darker brown) have a lot of local makeup brands BY Malaysians themselves that dont even make the shade range wide enough. It just markets as "it will make your skin more pretty" and thats about it.
Thank you, Evasian, for showing both versions of the washing machine commercial .... kml ... 🤣🤣🤣 Gotta say... some of these commercials are downright ... creepy ...
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Says a guy who put a lot of beauty products
Me: I'm concerned with my dark underarm
all 48 Asian countries the same idea about white skin if Asian man not finding white girl he married white woman to have good white kids 😭
about forcing women to be white skin to can get men for married her or she stay no marry and all men look to Europen and American women only cuz only have DNA skin to have white kids and beauty and this extremely toxic to Asians women in Asian cultures for all 48 countries in Asia !
all 48 Asian countries the same idea about white skin if Asian man not finding white girl he married white woman to have good white kids 😭
about forcing women to be white skin to can get men for married her or she stay no marry and all men look to Europen and American women only cuz only have DNA skin to have white kids and beauty and this extremely toxic to Asians women in Asian cultures for all 48 countries in Asia !
all 48 Asian countries the same idea about white skin if Asian man not finding Asian 👰🏻he married 👱🏻♀️ woman to have good 🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 kids 😭
about forcing women to be bright her skin to can get men for marry her or she stay no marry and all men look to 👱🏻♀️ women only cuz only can he have that fair skin from her DNA to fix color skin to get kids with fair skin and beauty and this extremely toxic all 48 Asian cultures get wild for fair skin
How dare I look like my ancestors?! I must look like their ghost
Hahaha
Considering it always ends up looking weird and ashy yeah 😂 fair skin people at least look alive lmao
How dare my body produces melanin!!! 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂👀👀👀👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
But if you think about it. They are looking like their dead ancestors 😮... literally
I’ve lived in both Japan and Europe for many years as an ultra white person.
Eu friends: “I would feel ashamed wearing shorts with legs THAT white”
Japanese friends: “Please tell me your secret to getting THIS white”
It would be great if we could one day realize that a “beautiful” skin color is just a made up concept and stop shaming people + harming perfectly natural, healthy skin
Be aware that your skin also must be PERFECT if white, no redness, no blemishes, no marks or spots, brown or red, no nothing, literally they expect a BLANK canvas to be without imperfections, when it’s the shade where imperfections show the MOST.
@@PossibleBat wouldn't say that, dark skin is also prone to discoloration and blemishes fade more slowly, clear skin is it's own standard and ppl expect it no matter what
Same here, I'm pretty pale and don't tan well. When I was living in Europe people kept telling me I looked like a ghost and unhealthy and that I should "let my skin catch some sun". Once when I went out in a dress a guy on the street (a complete stranger!) stopped me and said I shouldn't show my pale legs, I was honestly lost for words. Now I am living in Japan and if I forget to put on sunscreen my skin tends to get red and you can see the line where it tanned and where it was covered by clothes/sunscreen. I've had several girls tell me what a shame it is that I let my skin got a little darker, I'm so white naturally so why would I do this😅
Only dead people have uniform white skin 😂 @@PossibleBat
@@lavenderbambi3501 Clear even skin was the reason my mother demanded that I had to burn myself in the cancer beds. I first found out in my thirties that dark skinned people also struggles with blemished and uneven skin.
From now on, we should all just live without skin
Perhaps a lot of issues would he solved by this. Though also... perhaps more issues would arise from it also? All of the squishy bits being on the outside seems... not great lol
Correct
catch me outside click-clacking down the sidewalk in my skeleton
😂😂😂
You make a solid point. I’m not going to put on my skin when I get dressed tomorrow morning. 🥰
Hey, I’m from India and the ad where the woman turns into a white blonde woman was actually a parody of skin whitening cream ads. It was trying to shed light on just how ridiculous the real ads can be. ‘9x’ the product shown in the racial transformation ad doesn’t exist. That being said, colourism is a big issue in a lot of Asian countries, including India. Great video!
😂 thank you for the context
My grandpa's family came to the US in the early 1900s from India. I love this part of my ancestry and love my medium toned skin, dark brown eyes and black hair; though it's more grey now than black.
I think women from SE Asia are some of the most beautiful women in the world. Their yummy, warm skin is lovely.❤
@@alisalavine1052 yummy skin? what are you, a cannibal?
I've noticed he seems to misunderstand parody content vs genuine content kind of a lot
@joannasekua6273 what are you, stupid?
I'm SE Asian, and growing up, my mom would complain whenever I got too dark for her liking. One day I told her, "If you wanted light-skinned children, then you should have married someone lighter, you know." Never heard her complain about my skin color since.
Ooof you ate her up! Wish I had these kinds of comebacks as a kid
✨OOF! I liked, accidentally unliked trying to reply and liked again, cos I had too
I must admit that is a very good point.
What I find fascinating is, I am extremely pale, and my skin doesn't tan at all, I'm either pale, or lobster, there is no tan. And growing up people would say I needed to go out in the sun more and get a tan, or I should buy fake tan as I was too pale and apparently looked sickly.. we literally are the opposites
@@gemmacook1753 That IS fascinating, yeah! How skin receives the sun rays is widely varied, and it's interesting how some tan so easily, while others simply burn. But being pale isn't your fault and they shouldn't tell you to get a fake tan. There is beauty in your complexion, and people should mind their business if they can't appreciate it and you.
@@whatsonhermindblog123 lmao I tried my best to not be so sassy, but I was very much done at that point, so it just came out! hahaha
Toxicologist here. Most of the skin whitening creams contain mercury. No Bueno.
YIKES thats a red flag right there
And titanium dioxide. Which, btw, how bad is that?
@@slomnim not really, its also used for soap art when making light or white pigments
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 so it chelates naturally from the body?
I meant more does it function well in lymphatic detox pathways, or is it reactive to an unpredictable degree. Just because it's used in soaps doesn't really answer the question, which is why I ask
@@slomnim its more of a dye for external stuff and its harmless which is why some ppl even use them
holy shit some of these ads are racist as HELL
I know the word "cringe" has kind of lost its meaning these days, but dear lord did I ever cringe at them holy crap they're SO BAD. I wanted to shrivel up into nothingness at the second one.
Welcome to Asia! 😢
right and they're so blatant too they didn't even try to be subtle 😭
Some? 😂😂😂
the ugliest chuckle come out of my mouth when i watched the washin machine ad
Colorism is huge in the African diaspora as well. It goes pretty deep. Depending on where you’re from, skin bleaching, especially for women, is alive and well. We immigrated from Jamaica 🇯🇲 to the US when I was a kid, so I didn’t really know it was prevalent until I was an adult. For some, the preference for pallor seems to be quite ubiquitous 🙄Thank goodness my brother and I were not brainwashed into hating our skin tones and not disdained by our family for not being as pale as our mother.
So true 💯
Even in Africa itself, I can confirm this. It's not as ridiculous as it is in Asia, for obvious reasons, but it's still there.
In Nigeria as well. They’re the 2nd largest consumer of bleaching creams
In Haiti as well 😢
In my African country they had to ban all skin whitening products and ads a few years ago because a lot of women were getting skin cancer from it
Not the “as dark as you can be” jingle for that tanning cream. 💀 They’re all out of pocket.
It kinda hits not going to lie!
I’m old enough to remember those ads. 👵🏻 There was one whose jingle was 🎶Bain de Soleil for the St Tropez tan🎶 In hindsight it was pretty ridiculous.
@@MorganVsTheInterneto!
The whole skin bleaching thing is also in Mexican culture. My great grandma used to tell my mom to stop letting us play outside so we wouldn't get darker. Thankfully my mom was not down with that crap and let us play outside to our little hearts content lol
I was just about to leave a similar comment!! I remember growing up watching TV movies and ads and I would never see brown people like me and my family, just fair skinned actors !!! It’s so engrained in Mexican society!
Right and ever notice that in latino media, tv shows, music… all the actors and singers are just plain white people not even a single tanned person in sight 💀
@@snooozy_enby With a majority of the population in mexico being under 30, a lot of societal taboo are starting to fade , which to be fair is better for the country overall.
The difference is that we don't really have bleaching products available, I have seen just like 2 creams advertised to lighten skin in the last 20 years, but they're targeted to remove dark patches and even out the skin tone more than whiten skin.
But yeah, we have a massive colorism problem. I'm a bit light skinned and the times I've been told I'm pretty just because of my skin shade is just sad.
It’s a Salvadorian thing too, my grandma’s always asking me which shirt, color of nail polish, etc would make her appear lighter.
This is why my part-South Asian Dad got very excited when I went white basically overnight...and then less excited when Mum insisted on taking me to the doctor and we found out I had anaemia. 😂
relatable lol~
No way 😭😭😭
Makes me wonder how much it is about being too physically weak to function. Like wanting tiny, non muscular women is about being more vulnerable if things go south.
Lol 😂 it's funny as well as not funny at the same time .
BRO 😭 nah that's vile
Every time I shop for lotion or facial wash, I have to read the label to make sure it doesn’t have “whitening” on it.
Omg same, it's so hard to make sure it's truly "brightening" and not "whitening"
@@rebbit8767 Those are likely the same thing. “Whitening” is slowly becoming not politically correct.
@@redencarnacion brihtening is something vitamin C is for ex, not neccessarily whitening
Most of those whitening products don't even have anything that could actually whiten because the only thing that can whiten is bleach or hydroquinone which is prescription based. So that's false advertising too. For example, Fair and Lovely (a very famous Indian fairness cream) contains niacinamide as it's whitening ingredient now (don't know about the 2000s) not even retinol which actually can lighten the skin by fading tan. It's sad they wanna capitalise on the insecurities of POC instead of launching a product that would genuinely benefit skin of colour.
The skin whitening products all over the shelves in Asia contain identical ingredients to skincare products in the west. In Asia, they market it as "whitening", in the west they market it has "brightening". They're typically plant acids that help reduce hyperpigmentation and make the skin more even, they will not and cannot bleach your skin.
Skin bleaching products do exist, but they won't appear in supermarkets with slick "whitening" marketing, they are strictly regulated, only being sold in drug stores, with bland packaging and no slick marketing.
The way whitening brands until this day existed in my country because people believed that having fair skin make you more "respectable" or "prettier". People would ate this type of lie sadly.
skin whitening is rooted in elitism because the rich stay indoors, and poor work outdoors. it's incredibly upsetting that a hierarchy is formed based on skin colour.. :(
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to be fair ...I do love the contrast that white skin gives ...especially for make up ....the darker the skin the thicker the make up just to make it pop ....
@@카일마진that’s not true at all? Have you ever seen dark skin models wearing bright colors? Both skin colors can pull it off.
I don't know about other country but in my country if you have fair skin no matter how rude , arrogant and useless you are you will be treated as a queen. And if you have dark skin no matter what you do you will always be a looser and people's last choice . I being a woman who has the darkest shade felt it right from my childhood . Elders used to get disgusted just to touch me while they cuddle all my cousins and batchmates . I used to always get low score and my friends getting hight score for the same answer we all have written . It's really hard .
the washing machine ad... my jaw dropped
Mine's on the floor and rolled off somewhere.
Both of them had me crying 😅
Same.
Those washing machine ads are the most colorist and most cringiest ads I've ever seen in my life
I hope the guys getting shoved in the washing machines got paid well for having to be in that lol
This is even a thing in black communities. I noticeably get hit on by black guys more often than my friends because I have light skin (thanks anemia) thankfully saying “i have a girlfriend” makes them go away
Colorism is often most intense in communities targetted by it in the form of violence/colonialism.
@@douglassmalone-omeally1683 Yup, made a lot worse. But unfortunately it also predates it: The rich spent most of their time indoors, the poorer folk spent a lot of time in the sun working hard manual labor, and thus the paler you were the more it implied you were rich enough to spend time indoors compared to those in your immediate region.
@@Call-me-Alwhat does that have to do with black ppl majority of us are born dark
I get hit on by everyone but black men were the only ones to bring up my skin color. Or Latin men
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I'm latino not asian but my dad has constantly told me he's glad I'm a little bit fairer skin because my life would be easier and people would like me better. It made me sad to know that was the kind of world I was born into, a place where people like my father were treated horribly and blamed for it
THIS, people are like "I get bad comments because I'm paper white" which of course sucks, nobody should ever be shamed for their skincolor, HOWEVER they're still part of the most privileged group in the entire world, not having a tan won't affect how they're treated and perceived in a restaurant, an airport, or any public space the way people of color get treated, for them having light skin is more than just aesthetics, it literally means a successful life.
@@katitadeb Sure white people globally are the least likely to experience discrimination but they absolutely will face problems when it comes to romance and anything to do with beauty in the west. Very pale skin is just not desirable at all, hence all the many tanning salons and fake tan products available.
So privileged that they are mocked and bashed throughout Western society (where they actually live) for going on 20 years
@@katitadeb literally!!! that’s something I noticed in the comments too, and I’m glad u left this comment!!
@@katitadebthose comments make me feel cringe
I remember reading that a lot of Indian beauty advertisements use people who aren't even ethnically Indian. Like they'll put literal European people in their ads so that they'll have light enough skin to match the beauty standard. I can't imagine what growing up seeing stuff like that would do to a kid's brain 😔
Edit: Case in point--the lightening cream airport ad in this video 🤦♀
Edit #2: Someone in the comments said that ad in particular is a parody and THANK GOD lol
We even have the all private parts brightening creams here in India.. 😂
@@bandanarathorewhaaattt ??? Omg 😭💀
@@jeanane2038 girl yes it is true.. V***ina lightening and tightening creams are available in normal pharmacy over the counter. No prescription needed.
Not from India but Bangladesh, but it’s basically the same thing according to my mom. She told me that almost ALL her friends would use that stuff in hs and middle school (not her tho cause she’s light skinned) it’s genuinely so sad, but I’m glad my parents didn’t raise me with that ideology
@@bandanarathore the way im Indian and I didn't even know💀💀
meanwhile in america i'm fist fighting edward cullen in walmart for the only bottle of 001 pale porcelain foundation because no one else is built like a human light-reflector
Edited for better word usage
This comment is hilarious 😂
My daughter has the same problem 😭
This shit is what got me aware of shadeism in makeup, because I was like, "if my pale ass is having this problem, how bad is it on the dark end? ...oh. Oh no."
every single fair porcelain is too dark and too yellow on me, I’m almost offended. Like since when is “fair ivory” the color of peanut butter 💀
Lmao real
Just started the video but being told you’d be prettier if you weren’t “dark” is also something that happens in Latino communities. Thankfully my parents weren’t like that but when I was older and visited Mexico I did hear various family say that
Really? Not hispanic but I did have some friends who’ve told me the exact opposite. (Idk if it matters but they were from Chile, Argentina, and the DR I believe)
mhm being light is definitely huge in latinam. a slight tan is better but it will never be darker skin.
@@arissamazumderI'm not Latino either but I hear older people say stuff like that all the time. Especially when it comes to dating. "Don't date him or your kids might come out dark!"
@@arissamazumder it depends on the family (again my parents weren’t weird like that and if anything view pale skin as a sign of sickness) but society does tend to favor lighter skin and features. It’s why so much of our media often has people of European descent. And if you don’t match the standard you’d get called “India Maria” almost always as an insult. I’m surprised you mention Argentina though because they’ve always been the worst about this and look down on anyone with more native features.
@@idonotsparkle as far as I understand they accept Australian tan not "that's the skin tone I was born with" tan or the features that come with it. Source Colombian who had a language course with a group of Argentinians. In Colombia all that nonsense applies too although paler women are expected to have tanned legs that don't match their face at all (sometimes abs too). It's insane.
i was 8 when my sister was born, i remember i was in the waiting room with my grandma. we were allowed to enter into the delivery room after a few minutes to see my newborn sister and the first thing my grandma comments is "oh she's so tan". even at 8 years old i was flabbergasted that that was her first thought when she saw her newborn granddaughter.
just shows how this whole fair skin vs tan skin is ingrained into our culture and how we view beauty.
It’s really crazy, and worse that no one blinks an eye at it. I’ve seen people take a look at someone else’s baby and have the audacity to call them nicknames based on skin tone! The parents are right there and either don’t blink an eye, or they don’t bother to call it out
Not the Commercials. Worst thing is that everyone in those commercials probably agreed to do it in the first place. 💀
Money money money
I mean get that bag IG... plus it's kiiiinda a funny story to go to your mates and be like "they shoved me into a fucking washing machine and made an asian dude come out" like it's racist but so ridiculous I do see the funny side (I'm half african to be clear). Like it's so out of touch and cartoonish it's almost too bad to get actually offended
The commercials were so colorist and cringy
To be fair they probably had no idea what the commercial entailed before filming and signed a contract and couldn't get out of it. It's a common problem in the entertainment industry, especially in Asia as they often don't have the same union rules as in the USA that help protect actors and singers. They often make it practically impossible to back out of a contract and are often very vague with the job description.
I heard that the black dude in that washing machine commercial had no idea what it was initially, and was upset when he saw it.
As a naturally sickly pallid person, this has been an insane culture shock moving to Asia. The first times people told me "You're so pale" I was really upset and couldn't think why they were being so rude....
u r not sickly or pallid u r a fairy 🧚♀✨ embrace it
If it's because of an illness, I hope you get better...
If you're just calling your skin tone sickly, it's not. All skin tones are pretty, just like gem stones!!
@@AuthorThings Thank you, it doesn't actually bother me! Especially now that I know all the little old Asian ladies are giving me compliments. 😅
I'm not sickly but I've always had "marshmallow legs" as people called them, and people always told me to get a tan. I haven't visited Asia but just seeing some of the beauty standards is kind of insane because I'd fit more there.
@@HazZzel- lmao marshmallow legs is cute tho
the ice dessert thing is called "pisang ijo", this food is made from bananas wrapped in a green-coloured flour batter. The cooking method is steamed. The batter is made from flour, water, and green colouring made from a mixture of water and suji or pandan leaves. Pisang ijo is usually served with typical red syrup, sweetened condensed milk, white sauce made from a mixture of flour, coconut milk, and cornstarch, then topped with ice.
I thought this episode would be about how the “skin bleaching” products in asia are the same skincare products we use in the west for “brightening” and “anti aging”, except they highly imply you’ll get lighter skin. You won’t. Vitamin C, vitamin B3 (niacinamide) and Vitamin A (retinol) don’t change your skin color, but Asians firmly believe it will
No, Asians use much more intense products that really do prevent melanin production.
I had no idea that popular skincare names are just vitamins! I actually had to google it. You taught me more than all the skincare channels I ever watched! How come none of them ever mention it? I thought retinol was like a super rare ingredient lol!!!
Exactly correct. It's marketing. "Whitening" in the east is "brightening" in the west. They won't change your natural skin pigment, but they are good for the skin.
@@smooveayy haha it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together as well! I think it’s a deliberate ploy by the pharmaceuticals. They can’t sell retinol for $75 if you realize it’s just vitamin A! (Not saying it’s not effective, it’s meant to be one of the best!) but I think it’s interesting how our most effective skincare are just assorted topical vitamins. Another 2 common in skincare are Panthenol (Vitamin B5) and Tocopherol (Vitamin E). Vitamin A taken orally is the revered Accutane, known for curing acne
@@TumblinWeeds Important to understand that a Vitamin A supplement is not the same as Accutane. Accutane, the brand name for isotretinoin, is a vitamin-A derivative namely 13-cis retinoic acid.
7:46 The fact that they used a white person to portray they beauty standard for india
It's sad how many countries outside of europe have done this lol
Colonization and its impacts
@@MsElizaRaethey do the opposite here in Austria too.
That video is a parody! But yeah white people are kinda the beauty standard in india
It’s a parody, so they nailed that one with the critique.
it's really fucked up. our skin tone shouldn't be a factor if we are liked or not. it's a beyond racist issue. glad your shining a light on it.
Yeah exactly
When people say that they get picked on for being pale and I’m like, sure, but this is not the same thing as literally being considered more deviant, criminal, uneducated, and inhuman for being dark. I need people to think.
lol right? all the pale white girls being like "in america i wasnt celebrated for my paleness until i went to asia and everyone LOVES me 🥰." Like u fine with racism working in ur favor?
Fr ,they think its the same as being dark .its not the same thing please
I'm italian, and I've been so dark(due to being tanned) that I looked of another ethnicity, and so pale that people constantly commented about it in various phases of my life and.....yeah no, other ppl literally used slurs when I was too dark for their standards.
In Italy is considered cool and sexy to stay in the sun and have a very dark tan(which is easy to achieve for most italians because we have the same olive skin of middle easterns), and the only period of my life I enjoyed being in the sun is when I was little, I'd stay for months at my grandma's house in Abbruzzo and pass at least 3\4 hours per day in the sun at the beach. This to say I got REALLY dark, and no kidding, other kids called me the N-word all the time and shooed me away because they thought I wasn't italian.
I can only imagine what happens in societies that despise dark skin or that are even slightly more racist.
Now that I'm pale AF(to prevent acne scarring and ageing) the comments that I get are mostly lighthearted mockings about my ghost skin, or that I'd look healthier if I got a bit of a tan. That's it.
Anyone that thinks getting slurs and being discriminated is the same as someone saying "Omg you look like a ghost lol" is LYING.
@@DeadKraken it seems like people in general prefer skin tones that are at the middle (light olive or lightly tan/brown) and it seems like no one can win society's standards because people will always be seen as "too pale" or "too dark" no matter what.
i also know some middle easterns especially some levantines who also have pale skin with slight rosy/ruddy tones that doesnt really tan easily, not all are olive skinned.
@@DeadKrakenReminds me of how the internet accused Ariana Grande of blackfishing and tried to use pictures of when she was lighter to prove a point. However, her mixed race look is likely because she’s Italian and there’s African somewhere in her bloodline.
SPF 2 is wild😂
a step up from tanning oil that they used to use!
It's the mercury poisoning for me!
They only thing that edvasian said in this video that I didn't like is when he said if your going to lighten your skin, how about not ever doing that at all
@@joshuabuchanan1141when did he say that? And why is it a bad thing? just asking I wanted to get more out of your comment since I didn’t understand
My stepmom is filipino and shes constantly using shit like this its pretty nuts
Does it work
@@StarlaBizarre nope she looks the same color since I knew her
I really pity those who are brainwashed by these ads...
@@shararmare you american?
@@bootlegshakira what
As someone who used to purposefully bleach their skin trust me, it’s not worth it!! The whitening effects are so superficial and detrimental to your health.
this needs to be further up
I wish the society would just let people be whatever skin tone they were born with. I'm a pale redhead, living in Finland. most Finnish people have either fair skin or are pale, though not everyone. My younger sister for example has darker skin than I have (but still light compared to people from some other european countries for example). Because of this majority of people will not comment anything about my skin tone, since majority of Finnish people have fair skin.
To anyone thinking they should have darker or lighter skin tone: there's nothing wrong with your skin tone! Every skin tone is beautiful in my opinion, be it dark or pale.
I'm also a super-fair redhead. I feel like I'm supposed to apologize for it, but I have no problem with my skin. It suits a mostly cloudy climate.
WHAT WERE THOSE WASHING MACHINE ADS??? 💀💀💀
It’s like a new spin on “throw the whole man away.”
@@SheilaPatterson “throw the whole man away but make it racist” omg
Those were the most colorist and most cringiest ads that I've ever seen in my life
They're like over 10 years old...
The whole skin colour thing in different countries is so weird. In my country people are trying to be tan. Being tan equals being rich and "better than thou", at least in their heads. The skin cancer rate is higher than ever before. It's sad, really.
Because different countries have different cultures and people. Of course Indian people and Finnish people have different view on skin tone or beauty. Weird, isnt it?
“The grass is greener on the other side” is a very human mentality. People will never be satisfied. They always crave things they lack instead of appreciating things they have.
@@andromedamessier3176 Yeah! And it’s probably also because they see it as a social class thing. 😮💨
yet y'all europeans call brown people ghetto and ugly, make it make sense.
@@laymayday I heard that Coco Chanel is responsible for the tanning fad, along with the industrial revolution. Before that europeans liked pale skin
Not Ed in his ajumma era 😭
😂
Naurrr. 😂😂😂
Stooooppppp 😭✋🏻
Nooooo 😂
Omg I see it now😭
Dark skin is beautiful, nothing wrong with being dark 💕🙏🏿
dark coloured skin is gorgeous
Exactly I think dark skin ppl have the better skin.. very smooth
It’s quite sad how being tan or dark skinned is still viewed in a negative light. I can remember going on the internet as a kid and trying to find ways to lighten my skin tone because I viewed my tan skin as inferior and “dirty”.
Am African and we do this..
Aunty: "but why is the baby so dark. They would have looked better if they were light (brown)"
Also they did not mean white..my tribe for example used to live albino children in the forest....😢..so be as radiant as the mid day sun
As a dark dark southeast asian, may nickname as child was Olin (which sounds like Uling = Charcoal 🙁😭) -- and yes i did use those whitening soaps in HS
did they work? my guess is nothing changed, but i never used this type of products and im genuinely curious
I'm so sorry you were treated like that and made to feel like you had to use such products 😢
@@h0neym00nl0ve0 Stay away from those products, it bleaches the dead layer of skin but it also damages your live skin and can straight up poison you, and your skin just gets worse ans worse with consistent use of such products
@@h0neym00nl0ve0 ngl my skin did lighten up (and sadly got more complements :(( )- but not as dramatic as those shown in the video 😂😂
@@Tree-House69 its so sad that its been so normalize. But now i am more confident and comfortable with my skin - stopped using those products years ago
the "dude make alaga my car ha" ad from Belo has been memed to death in the Philippines. We don't take these ads too seriously anymore thankfully
in Germany it's a total tabu to say stuff like ,,you're pretty because of this skin colour''.
I'm pale for a latina (but I'm not white) and when I was in Peru so many people told me ,,you're pretty because you're a little white girl'' uuuuugggggggghhhhh
Here in brazil is also common (deppending of the state) for white people to like just black/darker person. I know some people who does.
True for Germany. Skin colour has nothing to do with beauty. One of the prettiest women I have ever seen, was black skin toned - like charcoal. A deep blue-black, glossy skin. I tried not to look at her, it was in our subway, but I was mesmerised (and I am a woman) because she was so good looking. I really hope she is proud of her skin tone in our still mostly white people country.
Based. Stay white.
Hispanic culture also suffers from colorism, it’s terrible 😢
Yo soy de latam, esto depende de la gente realmente. Es igual con todos seré humanos
It's like you can't be too dark or too light. 🙄
That black person washing machine ad is absolutely unhinged.
Always guarding my melanin with a passion!💯
This is insane. Skin is the largest organ in the human body. It deserves fair treatment. It's also our body's first line of defense.
In America I got bullied for being too pale. When I went to the Philippines, I was like a celebrity. Confusing times😅
1 min ago bc colorism has been living rent free in my southeast asian brain for 20 years
As someone who was born without the ability to tan and my skin tone is printer paper white with rosey undertones...... stop trying to achieve this and stop thinking this is a level you want to achieve. I had melanoma at 14 and nothing works quite right on me. I think the body needs a little melanin to hold it together. And the amount of people who tell me I need a tan is just plain stupid. Let people be who they are peacefully and if they glow in the dark, put sunblock on them.
What irks me the most is that people pass on their skin-complexion traumas by preaching to their own children that whiter/lighter is better, even with earnest concerns about their child's welfare in life. It shows that there is a full awareness of a system of fair-skin privilege and yet no attempt to criticize or work against it. I can't imagine my parents telling me whether they are glad or disappointed that any part of my body turned out some certain way (that they are ultimately responsible for by conceiving me and raising me).
In 2024, we have the opportunity to move beyond old and severely unfair systems of classism and racism by redefining what we truly value in others. Conforming to those systems isn't really doing anything courageous for oneself. You can't expect anybody to see you for who you are if you never present yourself as such. (And full disclosure, I have similar feelings about my fellow cis gay men who refuse to be open to anybody about their sexuality, even well into their 30s and 40s, and as a result constantly have very bleak feelings about their future relationships.)
I remember my mom, grandmother and sister literally scrubbing the absolute frick out of my skin and calling me dirty as a kid. My mom is literally the same color as me but used skin lightening creams. My sister was just naturally more light skinned with "good hair".
I went through a long phase of wanting to lighten my skin but the more I looked into it the more I hated it. It's not something I inherently dislike about myself at all but I get really tired of being told that I look "dirty" in the summer because I tan. I'm pretty vigilant about sun protection but at this point I'm trying to focus on it being for HEALTH and not sun dodging. This whole industry is pretty messed up honestly. Like no not everyone using the products has some of the underlying issues that stem from colorism but it isn't exactly a medical treatment. It's ALL about aesthetic and social acceptance and that's EXTREMELY depressing.
Parents are your worst enemy when it comes to skin color. My mom would slather my skin in bleaching cream as a kid and tell me I need to be fair so I can get married later. She still tries to replace my soaps with skin whitening ones when I'm not looking. Nowadays I have the same attitude about sun protection that you do because being obsessed with fairness is exhausting.
seeing the kojie-san soap gave me flashbacks omg. i remember my cousins telling me it would "help with my acne" and i became whiter than the irish half of my ancestry, not to mention how drying it was on my skin 😭at least it smelled good 🙃
I'm so sorry that happened to you 😔
I hope they acknowledge what they did was wrong
Best wishes ❤
I'm white and I use koji-san. It's amazing for acne and hyperpigmentation on the body.
I was also told it would help with my acne! Long story short, it irritated my skin so much that it actually made it worse for a while😭
@katelyn_murray thank you ❤ i hope someday they will too. sadly, colorism (as well as fatphobia, but that could just be my mom's side of the family/region-exclusive) is still an issue in the philippines :c
@@charlieparkeris i will give credit where it's due in that it did help with some of my acne. if i do use it again though, it will be for spot treatment and not the full on "baths" i was suggested back then :)
I'm Mexican and we have the same thing. A lot of parents tell their brown skin toned kids to not play in the sun cause they will get darker. It's so sad 😞
My aunt is from viet nam and had some sort of whitening cream in the 2000s. When her and my uncle were still dating she stayed at my house and at a party my other white auntie used her face cream from the bathroom without knowing what kind it was . She wasn’t really a skincare girlie and just like rubbed it into her face and eyes hella hard , and was having the craziest reaction to her eyes ! I had only even known about it because I found vogue magazines from Japan and Korea at a hotel in 2004 and saw that every major designer brand promoting tanning products in the us had all these products covered in snowflakes marketed in Asian countries. I grew up in a very multicultural place in America but I never saw those things sold in America.
who tf uses other people's cosmetics without asking at a party...
@@erina6319 my white family members 🙃 lol. Trust me this might not have happened in a less chaotic household where people had manners
There’s plenty of skin whitening products in Asian super markets in the US. At least I’ve seen a lot as a Filipino in California
The Lisa discourse pissed me off so much. Her debut trainee video shows how tan she was as a kid. She’s Thai. Why is it so hard for people to understand 🤣
"Try not to be dumb" is the ultimate advice we need in this era.
It really is a cultural thing. I'm from Scandinavia and I'm very pale. I can't get tan at all, I just get sunburned, red and scaly instead. In my teens I was so embarrassed about my paleness that I would wear hoodies etc in the hot summer just to hide how pale I was, when everyone around me had a nice summer tan.
2:05 bro is in his office siren era periodt
Bayonetta😂😂
I'm a Sri Lankan with dark skin and i have gotten many comments about my skin tone. Skin bleaching is a huge problem in Sri lanka as well as many countries in Asia like you just said. At the end of the day, I hope we can break this norm and be comfortable with being ourselves. I'd love that for us, since this obsession with white/ lighter skin has gotten too much.
talking about whitening it's not just an east and south asian thing arabs are also obsessed with it there is so many small businesses that makes whitening soaps and cream they call it "خلطات تفتيح" in gulf countries specially saudi it's everywhere in arabic tiktok
some Arabs are white because of the Slavic slave trade ancestry. it isn't something that should be glorified.
@KatiaPavlovart I'm not saying Arabs are not white I just said they're obsessed with that fair white skin
@@fatma0k Misses Iraq and majority of Lebanese actresses are heavily bleached.
I don’t know for men , but Egyptian men bleach too.
Haifa Webhe has stopped bleaching some years ago , but 10/15 years ago she was sooo pale skinned.
@DearBill there are for sure some artists who are dark but bfr who does the audience prefer or see as more attractive? Dark artisit or white ones? Like dude ask them arabs who is the most attractive artist and you will 1 out of a 1000 times get someone who's not pale asf for example ahmed ezz he sucks fr other than the horrible thinks he have done and people still like him he isn't even handsome he's just white
@@KatiaPavlovart pale skin is actually native to some parts of the middle east. look at samaritans, they never left palestine and lived there forever and they "look white", same with assyrians in syria and iraq, not to mention many arabs living in that part. there's also circassians and bosnians who came to live there, though they''re a minority of the reason. many white looking people in north africa too, both arabs and amazigh (especially kayble). the middle east is as heterogeneous as latin american countries
Filipino here - when I was old enough to be curious about make-up, my mom used to tell me to choose foundation that was at least 3 shades lighter than my natural skin tone so that I would give the appearance of being fairer. She would also have me pinch the bridge of my nose for a minute every morning when I woke up, and before I went to sleep. Of course when I started realizing that this was absolutely ridiculous, I stopped doing it. Its something that really affected me growing up, and just made me feel like I wasn't enough for my own parents.
30 seconds is crazy i need to touch grass
Same here 😌
Same though. I think I started this video 31 seconds after it posted 😅
Same
It's funny this video would come up the same day my Thai friend was asking me what SPF I use because my skin is so bright...she's one of the prettiest girls I know though so I hope she doesn't feel bad about her complexion, her skin is flawless and she has clearly taken good care of her skin her whole life.
I personally do hate the sun but it's because I work night shift and since I never see it, the few times I do, it gives me an unpleasant sensation on my skin like I'm being slowly cooked. I would never tan but that's for anti aging reasons.
I am as white as a sheet. One time I was in a swimming pool and I noticed everybody kept looking at me, I started looking at myself and saw my body was picking up/reflecting the blue color of the bottom of the pool. It was very light tint but I looked like the early states of becoming a smurf👥. People use to make degrading comments about being too white but I guess that has changed. I am glad I am comfortable in my own skin and everybody should be.
As a darker skinned Mexican growing up in California, I was always told to stay out of the sun because I was already too dark. When I grew up a bleached my skin for years. Ppl would be shocked by my new tone if they hadn't seen me in awhile. I got to be like 10 shades lighter than I originally was. It wasn't until my skin started to feel like it was burning just while I sat in the sun, that I decided to cut back. I have finally accepted my skin tone and stopped bleaching all together. Sometimes I miss the lighter version of myself but I just can't bring myself to do it anymore because I just love the sun and I love to go hiking and running. It's sad that there are many of us thinking we aren't good enough, but I suppose that's just life.
Your beautiful with your natural skin colour and that’s it, no changing it, your beautiful the way you are.
0:05 HELP U LOOK GREAT THO POOKS
So about the 5:30 section… I really think it’s less about her individual skin tone and much more about the Kpop industries repeated appropriation of Black American aesthetics. Especially when we compare it to what Hyolyn just put out trying to be Tyla. She went full Ariana grande in that photo shoot, and I think we can all acknowledge that.
True true
I'm not into k-pop as much anymore so Idk what controversy you're talking about. However, if you're talking about Hyolyn then she was always bullied for her darker skin tone since the very beginning, even when she was in sistar. Her last solo song that I heard was Dally & her concept has always been very sensual. She went through a lot because of her skin colour (which is ridiculous) & finally proved herself to be very talented, to the point that she was considered the gold standard for sexiness.
Did she do something different recently for these accusations to come about?
They do what now?
Tbf Tyla is not Black American, she's South African and of Coloured (mixed Native South African, Indian and Irish) descent.
The 9x fairness cream ad(the indian one) is not an actual product but a satire video produced by 9x cable channel to fairness cream ads in india.
Nonetheless that is one of the harsh realities here. My whole family is dark skinned so I didn’t face any colorist remarks from my family growing up but that isn’t the case for families having both light and dark skinned people, they have it worse.
I found the India one to be ironically funny because compared to other East Asians like Thai, or Vietnam. Every video I've seen of India, the populace is mostly dark skinned brown people. I would say even compared to other "tan" ethnic groups Indians always seemed darker in skin color. So when I seen that Ad, with a European lady as Beauty Standard I couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculousness of it LOL. Like who is this for??? I get maybe wanting to lighten your skin 1 or 2 tones (not that I would ever do it) but 9x shade lighter too hahaha wtf
@@youalrightchief4770 it is lol but it is true that russian or ukranian women are often seen in ads or pictures for clothing such as sarees or chudidars etc depicting how the garment would look on an “Indian” woman. The irony haha.
@@youalrightchief4770there’s people of all skin tones in india and not everyone is dark like the media shows in the name of representation. Although not as much now but colorism was pretty prevalent back then and often because there are really fair indians and hence the comparison and ofc the eurocentric beauty standards prevail.
@@youalrightchief4770not true at all there’s lot of light skin people in India than you think.
@@youalrightchief4770the most common skin tone is probably beige brown
I was forced into an arranged marriage with an Indian guy (extremely abusive, but that's another side of the story. Am happily divorced now), and the amount of ads I would see for skin whitening creams and products was INSANE. I NEVER had in my life felt insecure about myself or my body or my skin or anything like that at all, but let me tell you something, the amount of ads and the narrative that was being pushed for """white supremacy"""" was out of this world. Absolutely disgusting.
Im sorry you were forced to marry a guy but i don’t know how this need to be said for the rest of the information about skin whitening😭
God this just happened the other day.. Annoying seller that ignored body language and was like "look youre whiter" s***...no im not buying this cheap stuff with whatever inside it...and why did you just slather it on me without consent. Dont touch me, if im allergic to it im suing you
I KNEW THE RACE CHANGE INDIAN AD WOULD BE FEATURED! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ITS COMEDIC GOLD
It is a parody ad made by indians to mock the fair and lovely ads.
@@enternalmoonlight ik ik I'm Indian only and it's the funniest shit on earth
@@girlypop-563But people and creator aren't understanding that. They think it's a actual ad
The Youthforia foundation comment is what did it. That's what killed me. Took me out back and laid me in the ground.
“Deep down, we’re all just half human, half pieces of toast.” 😂
ありがとうございます！
the shaved ice thing is called pisang ijo from makassar, sulawesi(one of the main islands in indonesia)! lit. translated to green bananas its bananas wrapped in this.. sweet dough (the green bit) with coconut porridge and ice (explaining this to you makes me want to order one ngl)
if you ever have the chance you should def give it a try :)
I’m half Filipino and oh my god there are a lot of promotion of skin bleaching in the Philippines. In the Philippines the way you look can determine a lot about your social status.
It's crazy how some people in Asian countries obsessed with having very light skin and us gone through 2000s "trend" of having tan skin after bronzing creams and tanning salons. I never wanted to go through that because I have very pale skin and it's dangerous to be exposed to the sun a lot. One mean girl from my class always bullied me for being pale she said: you are like Snow White but dead version. Even my mom said that I look like a death cap mushroom 🙈 My bestfriend's dad made her go in tanning salon before Prom night it was crazy time.
I hope the folks who need to see this do. I adore your videos thank you .
Im telling you as a somali so many ppl have chemical burns from trying to whiten their skin..
somali tryna bleach is insane
their fault
unless they thought its a good idea from the colorism theyve seen
The fact that they REUSED THE WASHING MACHINE AD IDEA BUT IN REVERSE????? Every time i thought i couldn't be more stunned this video kept proving me wrong
The background looks so cute I want pretty trinkets like that for my room!!
That lady’s chin is illegal. That literally scared me smh.
Not the jellied eels reference - as an English person, I am being read but also impressed at the specificity 😂
I got to educate someone on the benefits of sunscreen as they tried to tell me about a religion... they literally had no idea of the correlation between sun and skin cancer. Idk how this is relevant. Just felt like sharing lol
I remember being su desperate to be tan, I was finally living in my own, and had moved to Florida. I went tanning religiously and got pretty darn dark. I really regret it, and my mom was NOT happy when she found out because I had already had a pre-cancerous mole removed at age 8. I really hope I didn't cause any permanent damage 😢
plz wear sunscreen
@@lavenderbambi3501Can’t you still get dark with sunscreen? It only inhibits vitamin D and UV damage, right?
@@klickingkayasmr7585 depends, i don't think your skin tone remains unchanged but there's def ppl walking around w white faces and tanned bodies cuz they only put it on face lol
@@klickingkayasmr7585 Getting a tan from the sun is the body's "Oh, shit" response to UV rays. No UV rays reaching the skin, no tan.
I remember when I went to West Africa and apparently we were told thats its common for the men to force their wives to bleach so they are lighter skinned than them on their wedding day. So these poor women are bleaching their skin but instead of it getting lighter, it gets red and it looks like rashes on their face its honestly so sad and disturbing to look at.
wild
In latin America we hear the same comments about baby’s skin, nobody wants to be “dark”, people want “tan”, “golden” skin
I am dark skin African living in a town in the US where everyone is either white or tanned. And I absolutely love how I am standing out from the crowd. I never felt that I needed to change anything. I just put up the brightest smile 😁
As a almost translucent white person, the Asian beauty standards caught me off guard. I made my Indian friend a baby blanket for her unborn child, before I started I sent her a picture of the wool colour and she asked me to pick a lighter colour because the navy blue would make the baby look dark. I was so sad when I realised this was a genuine concern for her because her family would think the literal new born wasn't good enough if he was too dark.
the thing about people asking what color the baby is SOOO true like I watched my first hospital video with my mum a while back and the first thing that relatives commented on was that my skin was fair... and then I got darker as I grew older, which was a fun :,).
Also, fair and lovely omfg I have such one-sided beef with them commercials (btw they used to have a whole chart on the packaging that you could cut out and use to check the progress of your skin whitening, so they can fuck off with trying to gaslight people into thinking they aren't a skin bleaching product pls-)
Being an Indian American Girl my mom would intentionally give me Fair & Lovely as a daily cream. She’s fair herself and I’m brown. I didn’t know the Fair & Lovely was a bleaching cream. Around High School Fair & Lovely was getting heat for their product as skin bleaching. After that, I stopped wearing Fair and Lovely and told myself I love the skin color I’m in. And never ever applied Fair & Lovely after that!!!! I love my brown dusky skin tone!
colorism is deep rooted among indian aunties and boomers
Just so many people know, “whitening” is essentially their way of saying ‘brightening’. Many of these products don’t have any bleaching ingredients that are toxic. They usually have vitamin C, glutathione, tranexamic acid and even niacinamide. Even kojic acid isn’t toxic (it’s just a really strong anti- tyrosine ingredient) but you have to use with caution. I’m only saying this so people don’t fear monger these ingredients that are much more than just used for skin whitening.
Edit: I am not saying whitening is good, but I’m seeing many comments misinterpreting the word whitening when they use Asian skincare products, the ingredients I’ve listed are used even in American skincare and even Europe, and they do not give a great change in skin color, only two ingredients can do that and they are extremely harmful.
Agreed, this video is definitely hyping up a non existent issue
i wish the video focused more on controversial ingredients like hydroquinone or mercury(some whitening products contain them)
@@Cut_tape-x9j let's not pretend that the issue of strong colorism and misleading whitening ads does not exist or that harmful whitening products does not exist
@@Cut_tape-x9j Idk what you're talking about. There is no doubt a colorism issue in most of Asia. Brown and Black people still get ridiculed and forced into white-washing themselves. You can literally see it in these comments.
The companies say "brightening" on their products because the word doesn't carry the same stigma as "whitening" does. But it's just semantics because the one word is used as a proxy for the other, and in the local language, it's usually saying the same exact thing. Look at the teeth-bleaching products we have here in East Asia: they don't say "teeth brightening", they unanimously say "teeth whitening", and there's no worry about these chemicals being unsafe for the body. When it comes down to it, people want to look paler and less touched by the sun because there are strong societal pressures and deeply ingrained beauty standards that enforce light-skin privilege at the expense of darker-skinned people (many of whom belong to the same genetic population as the "lighter skinned" types). But the consumers also want to feel good about the "self-care" that they are giving themselves. It's a kind of product branding that feeds off of emotional insecurities. I personally don't think conforming to light-skin beauty culture is any form of combating it, but you do you...
1:15 scared the shit outta me why is it so loud
THANK YOU! I thought it was just my phone but holy god I literally jumped 😭.
As an Indonesian, I would totally recommend the shaved ice dessert thing lol it's called 'pisang ijo' or 'green banana'. Definitely one of my fav indonesian desserts😂👌🏻
It's interesting how in Europe there was this trend too, people even contained Tuberculosis on purpose to obtain light skin.
I had this but with eye color. My brothers mother in law once came to me and said i would’ve looked better if i had blue eyes and how woulda been a ten. Wild honestly.
In my country where people are predominantly have white/pale skin, where tanning is encouraged to look healthier (I don't tan cause I'm afraid of melanoma and my skin burns from sun exposure pretty fast even with high spf, so my relatives always call me a ghost or "too pale" lol) whitening cremes and products still exist. They mean "anti-red" though, like they help with rosacea and stuff. In other cases they are sold as "anti-pigmentation" or "anti-freckles" which is nuts cause freckles are super cute, but a lot of people still doesn't think so, sadly. Interesting how same products are promoted to different cultures and demographics. This whitening products are from India and Korea most of the time btw, I think they are the same, but advertised differently.
Even here in Malaysia, (where many people have different shades of brown to darker brown) have a lot of local makeup brands BY Malaysians themselves that dont even make the shade range wide enough. It just markets as "it will make your skin more pretty" and thats about it.
Thank you, Evasian, for showing both versions of the washing machine commercial .... kml ... 🤣🤣🤣
Gotta say... some of these commercials are downright ... creepy ...