“There are mercury-containing skin-lightening creams that you can still find on these online commerce sites, and it's sort of a regulatory black hole in terms of the accountability there,” she sai ...

Vox also said in 2015 that the singer looked “suspiciously pale” in the album art for her 2012 album, “4,” and wrote that concerns about Black celebrities and skin lightening stem from the ...

Skin bleaching in the US is an expanding — and ... Researchers from Northwestern University surveyed 455 people — a majority of them black women. Out of those who completed the questionnaire ...

Hill: While Black men are struggling to keep their skin healthy, Black women are risking their lives to lighten their melanin. A new study finds colorism is driving many Black women to use ...

Meet Tiffanie Barriere: The Drinking Coach Making History at the NYSE For the study, 455 people were surveyed—with 238 of them being Black. Around 21.3 percent said they use skin-lightening ...

Billboards advertising skin whitening products, with images of white or lighter skinned black women, are prevalent across Nigerian cities. Rooted in colonial-era beauty standards, the desirability ...

The table below highlights African countries with the highest prevalence of skin bleaching; Skin bleaching prevalence varies widely across Africa, with rates ranging from 25% in Mali to a ...

Explore the societal pressures driving individuals to alter their skin tone through dangerous practices like bleaching and ...