After years of using bleaching creams, a 35-year-old woman known only as Lebogang has taken to social media to express her dissatisfaction with the severe damage the creams have caused to her skin.
The lady claimed that her friends’ lighter skin tones, which she saw as a standard of attractiveness, had an impact on her decision to bleach her own skin.
She turned to using multiple bleaching creams to lighten her complexion since she was driven to get what she thought was a more appealing appearance.
The extent of her obsession with getting a lighter skin tone was disclosed in an interview with DW’s “77 Percent.”
“I couldn’t stop at all; I was hungry for that beauty. I even mixed the bleaching creams with my body lotion to lighten my entire body, not just my face,”Lebogang said.
Lebogang described herself as “very beautiful, light like a White woman” at first, noting a significant change in her complexion.
She started to experience adverse effects, so the initial benefits were temporary.
In her words;
“First I was very beautiful light like a white woman but after the effect that it started and I was becoming red and itchy especially when I went outside to the sun and my skin goes completely wrong.”
“If you stop using them, you look like a crane, you look more older because you have stopped using them, they are not good at all.”
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