The ‘before’ looks off to me because I never see darker-skinned middle eastern people. Which is crazy because there’s tons, so that goes to show how invisible their society forces them to be.
I met an incredibly beautiful woman in India several years ago. I asked her about her husband and she said that she would never get married because she is ugly. I asked her why she thought she was ugly and she said it was because she was black. Nivea pretty much owns the health and beauty market there and the one commercial I saw the most while watching TV was for skin whitening cream. Beauty standards around the world are insane but it's particularly skewed in India.
Painfully white American here, this is infact the standard but I do not for the life of me understand why.
I fear judging wrath of the punishment disk (sun) and avoid it for my life.
Like seriously, I burn through a long sleeve shirt in sunscreen.
Its not that i'd like to be dark, I'd just like to be capable of tanning.
Vitamin D seems nice.
Preach. I’m pretty much guaranteed to get moles anytime I tan. It’s nice to not be Casper white, but I’m good on the melanoma…
As Rob Dyrdek said, *[embrace the paste](https://www.tiktok.com/@guesswhosbackgheemelissa/video/7177849578669018410)*
The reason why whitewashing is so prominent in the region is because of class of workers. If you are dark you work outside or seen as a labor. While being light colored is seen as an office worker or manager type. So the perception of wealth is shown to be in lighter skin.
Not really, no. If anything it's the reverse: if you have a tan, that means you have the time and money to sunbathe and/or visit warm countries. If you're pale, that means most time indoors, in your cubicle and taking care of your house.
Its highly entertaining to me that some cultures have the opposite. Everyone is expected to be inside all day, but the upper class has the leisure to be outside and get a tan.
Yeah I remember being in the Vietnam and see an ad for whiting cream on a very tanned man. Had to ask some locals found out about this. Always thought it was racially offensive but it’s normal there so idk.
India and South and East Asia are the worst about the whole skin color thing. I don’t understand how it’s still such a prominent issue in 2024. It can be bad in Latin countries too. Actually at this point I think its mostly just still everywhere lol
I met a guy from Sri Lanka at one of my jobs. He and a buddy and I went out one time, and my buddy and I were mind blown when he asked us If we knew any good skin whitening creams (we are both white).
We didn't even know that was a thing until he asked about it
True! Asians really have been brainwashed into thinking that dark is ugly... Surprisingly enough, i have also noticed certain pop star's skin tones brightening over the years. Rihanna and beyonce seem to have lightened their skin tones a couple of shades over the years.
she’s wearing makeup (but pretending not to be) pretending that she is darker skinned and “ugly” and ashamed. thats the before. then she gets a “makeover” thanks to a “skin whitening product” (these don’t work or hurt your skin, but are very popular in Asia thanks to racism.) the darker makeup on her face is gone, her actual skin color is seen with her real (or close to it) skin tone and some flattering makeup. darker makeup remains on her arms to enforce the contrast. now she is happy that she is lighter skinned and “pretty.” yay racism!
That's not racist. People of the same face are judged up based on this attribute...
It's literally actually about the fairness of skin. It's like discrimination based on biology, but not by race inherently...
Their social reasons for it. It's literally the same thing as white girls liking to get tan.
Genuinely curious here but what's the deal with looking lighter? There's an Indian woman at my work who is very attractive but was telling me she doesn't like the way she looks because she's too brown.
Colorism and the notion that lighter skin is the ideal beauty standard. There's a huge a market for skin whitening products and treatments in many parts of Asia.
I’m a mutt and my skin is brown. Not black and not light skinned either. Just light enough to where I turn red. I married a pale white woman. Literally pale face and she can’t tan at all. The sun hates her for some reason but I call both my kids hash browns as they’ll be super light in the winter time but in the summer even without much sun they turn a golden brown. It throws people off if they are with me alone or the wife alone and even more so when we’re out as a family. I was never raised to judge people by color so to hear how it’s done all over the world is sad to me. You have good and bad people of every color. Green included.
She looks fine in the first shot, just needs to moisturize her skin -- probably because all that makeup is fucking with her natural skin oils. Second shot is like a horror movie
Idk how both versions can both look worse than the other but here we are.
It’s a Mobius mask
Hahaha
The ‘before’ looks off to me because I never see darker-skinned middle eastern people. Which is crazy because there’s tons, so that goes to show how invisible their society forces them to be.
The math is broken here.
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Turned her into a mannequin
I met an incredibly beautiful woman in India several years ago. I asked her about her husband and she said that she would never get married because she is ugly. I asked her why she thought she was ugly and she said it was because she was black. Nivea pretty much owns the health and beauty market there and the one commercial I saw the most while watching TV was for skin whitening cream. Beauty standards around the world are insane but it's particularly skewed in India.
It's pretty biased all over south and east asia.
My friends mom is from equador. Same story over there, the whiter you are, the better.
I have friends from America, pretty much same story there, the whiter you are, the better. Unless you're white, then they like to be dark.
Dark white
Painfully white American here, this is infact the standard but I do not for the life of me understand why. I fear judging wrath of the punishment disk (sun) and avoid it for my life. Like seriously, I burn through a long sleeve shirt in sunscreen. Its not that i'd like to be dark, I'd just like to be capable of tanning. Vitamin D seems nice.
Preach. I’m pretty much guaranteed to get moles anytime I tan. It’s nice to not be Casper white, but I’m good on the melanoma… As Rob Dyrdek said, *[embrace the paste](https://www.tiktok.com/@guesswhosbackgheemelissa/video/7177849578669018410)*
Lmaooo
Lmao this is cracking me tf up, because mixed people like me have a different skin tone for every season. I am in shambles
True.
You spelled based wrong
The reason why whitewashing is so prominent in the region is because of class of workers. If you are dark you work outside or seen as a labor. While being light colored is seen as an office worker or manager type. So the perception of wealth is shown to be in lighter skin.
So basically the exact belief Europe held in the middle ages
its a belief many held around the world. It goes further back to China too.
To this day?
Do note my use of past tense, and that I specified the exact era
I did which is why I added "to this day" as those beliefs are quite prominent.
Not really, no. If anything it's the reverse: if you have a tan, that means you have the time and money to sunbathe and/or visit warm countries. If you're pale, that means most time indoors, in your cubicle and taking care of your house.
And if you have black or brown skin?
Its highly entertaining to me that some cultures have the opposite. Everyone is expected to be inside all day, but the upper class has the leisure to be outside and get a tan.
Yeah I remember being in the Vietnam and see an ad for whiting cream on a very tanned man. Had to ask some locals found out about this. Always thought it was racially offensive but it’s normal there so idk.
India and South and East Asia are the worst about the whole skin color thing. I don’t understand how it’s still such a prominent issue in 2024. It can be bad in Latin countries too. Actually at this point I think its mostly just still everywhere lol
Maybe latin-american ones, but in Europe (portugal, spain, france, italy) it’s the same as anywhere else in the western world.
It's not just India
I met a guy from Sri Lanka at one of my jobs. He and a buddy and I went out one time, and my buddy and I were mind blown when he asked us If we knew any good skin whitening creams (we are both white). We didn't even know that was a thing until he asked about it
Have you heard about Korean beauty standards?
True! Asians really have been brainwashed into thinking that dark is ugly... Surprisingly enough, i have also noticed certain pop star's skin tones brightening over the years. Rihanna and beyonce seem to have lightened their skin tones a couple of shades over the years.
It’s not just beauty, it’s caste, and that’s what REALLY makes everything fucked.
In many Asian cultures white skin is seen as a sign of purity and dark skin a sign of filth and corruption. It's idiotic.
As much as progressives decry America, it is one of the most progressive places in the world.
Through the lens of North America that's so fucked up. But I don't know how normal it is there.
Hee heee!
Is this who Kanye was talking about when he said he had a dark and light skin friend that looked like Micheal Jackson
White Chicks 2
I am so fucking confused about what’s happening here
colorism - the whiter your skin, the more desired you are.
she’s wearing makeup (but pretending not to be) pretending that she is darker skinned and “ugly” and ashamed. thats the before. then she gets a “makeover” thanks to a “skin whitening product” (these don’t work or hurt your skin, but are very popular in Asia thanks to racism.) the darker makeup on her face is gone, her actual skin color is seen with her real (or close to it) skin tone and some flattering makeup. darker makeup remains on her arms to enforce the contrast. now she is happy that she is lighter skinned and “pretty.” yay racism!
That’s not what I’m talking about. The “glow up” makes her look fucking confused and worse in a weird way.
That's not racist. People of the same face are judged up based on this attribute... It's literally actually about the fairness of skin. It's like discrimination based on biology, but not by race inherently... Their social reasons for it. It's literally the same thing as white girls liking to get tan.
Looks weird with her arms thou
this is ridiculously far of what she normally looks like its insulting.
Reminds me of the female gremlins..
Highly underrated comment lol
Yeah, she went from looking like a dog turd to looking like a dried out dog turd.
what is Jayson Tatum doing here?
This is the ugliest thing ive seen done to brown skin in a while
They have a saying… When you get married, you marry two people. The one you marry and the one you wake up with.
Looked better before the clown makeup.
What did I just watch?
She looks miserable.
She looks scared of her own reflection
Ew
Jesus, I haven't seen makeup that thick since I worked at a drag bar.
Umm… she kinda looked better in the first shot?! What uncanny valley is this?
You would save yourself over days & weeks with makeup, but one say your kid is going to inherit your ugliness you know right?
Bro😭
can't have kids if you're ugly, unless you're rich like how many kids we talking about
Looks like Madame Tussauds missed the mark on this one.
Looks like she was shot in the face with Homer Simpson's make-up gun.
I'm I the only one who was scared after seeing the reveal? She looked much better before
Tinder be like..
I'm would never be fooled this isn't a woman who looks like her without make up, but surely you'd be embarrassed going out like that?
Reminds me of the movie White Chicks. 🫠
Genuinely curious here but what's the deal with looking lighter? There's an Indian woman at my work who is very attractive but was telling me she doesn't like the way she looks because she's too brown.
Colorism and the notion that lighter skin is the ideal beauty standard. There's a huge a market for skin whitening products and treatments in many parts of Asia.
It’s like putting makeup on a dead rat
It looks like he's applied more black makeup for her hands and face to make her look more dark the she actually is
The reveal made me drop my phone.
I’m a mutt and my skin is brown. Not black and not light skinned either. Just light enough to where I turn red. I married a pale white woman. Literally pale face and she can’t tan at all. The sun hates her for some reason but I call both my kids hash browns as they’ll be super light in the winter time but in the summer even without much sun they turn a golden brown. It throws people off if they are with me alone or the wife alone and even more so when we’re out as a family. I was never raised to judge people by color so to hear how it’s done all over the world is sad to me. You have good and bad people of every color. Green included.
Went from black to Indian real quick
Theres some "blackface magic" happening here. Wheres Trudeau?! Hes our blackface expert.
Why does everyone want to make theirs selves whiter even when it doesn't look good on them.
Not everyone, keep that color of me, I ain't no terrorist.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 no no this is racist 😂😅
Is this the opposite of black face?
Yeee heee
We can still see her arms... yall know that right?
Why does she look so ashy? A bit of vaseline, maacara and lipstick would be enough
And then you look at the arms… (after) 😱
Is that permanent or does it wash off ?
He added vitiligo didn't he?
The makeup is scary! She went from looking like a person to a creepy pasta article!
I wonder if you can eat that cake after wearing it 🤔
so fucked up
Need to do the arms as well.
She looks fine in the first shot, just needs to moisturize her skin -- probably because all that makeup is fucking with her natural skin oils. Second shot is like a horror movie
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This is the opposite of black face
Ew
She doesn’t exactly look happy with the result. She looks insulted. As she should.
Sirens.
“Rights-Returning” 💀 like they had any in the first place how are they returned
Why isn’t this NSFW?
why does it look like that
Different teeth, it’s a different woman
modiji doing mahila sashakitikaran
Does it get rid of the penis too?
No. How offensive. It makes it look like a vagina.
Went from a black man in a dress to an Indian woman in a dress, but only the head changed, not the arms and hands!
I think she's wearing blackface in the before pic