The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage ...

JT wasted no time checking the haters on TikTok who accused her of skin bleaching, saying, "Stop talking about me." ...

Every few months, social media stirs up the same tired conversation: Skin bleaching. Someone’s glow-up or flawless look has ...

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 ...

Susan Anderson, age 52, sits in the corner of a sunlit waiting room at a dermatology clinic in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Dark patches of skin, dotted with brighter pigments, surround her eyes and ...

Of course, there are men who bleach their skin as well ... a condition in which the skin turns dark with a blue-black effect. In the early stages, the skin may just look slightly darker and ...

Then, after a year, I started getting black spots on my bleached skin. My feet began swelling, and the doctor told me that my kidneys had been affected by the bleaching,” she narrates.

A 2010 study titled Skin Bleaching in Jamaica: Self-Esteem, Racial Self-Esteem, and Black Identity Transactions examined the self-esteem (SE) and racial self-esteem (RSE) of black Jamaicans.