Plastic surgeries and fairness creams

Dont we all use lipstick?

Dont we all use foundation to hide our blemishes?

Dont we all do contouring to make our cheek bones look higher?

Dont we all wax?

Who on earth is all natural????/ We all in some way or another try to improve ourselves! Why does it become a big deal when stars do plastic surgery to enhance their looks. Why criticize them if it helps them?

Fairness creams- we all the risks. Yet we ourselves choose to buy them. Then why blame the stars for endorsing it? Some people like myself are permanently tanned and have slight discolourations so whats the big deal in buying these creams to help get back to normal colour as I do bliv that my features look better with a even tone.

Whats the big fuss?

In no means does makeup relate to plastic surgery. In some ways, yes, they are similar but PS and makeup are two very different things. Makeup is generally used to enhance your features, not completely alter them. Makeup also isn't permanent like plastic surgery is.

When I want to look better and feel more secure, I up my wardrobe because fashion, in my eyes, can equal beauty. So I buy a new dress. Does that mean I'm unnatural now because I am insecure about my old and outdated clothes? I look much more feminine in a dress, does that alter my appearance? I would only wear this new dress when I am out, not at home where nobody can see me, so is that the same level as plastic surgery? Just wondering.

The problem with fairness cream is that it propagates racist tendencies in society telling people that fair skin is desirable while being dark skinned is inferior and undesirable. It tells dark skinned people that they need to change their skin tone to be acceptable. It creates an entire cultural perception that fair is good and dark skinned people need to change the color.

Lipstick, foundation, clothing and even plastic surgery done for vanity reasons are a completely different ball game. The lipstick advertisement does not tell you your lips are inferior. The eye shadow advertisement does not tell you that there is something wrong with your eyes. Basically these products are sold as something that will accentuate and highlight your existing features. It doesn't create a cultural perception that makeup or plastic surgery is necessary. There isn't a cultural bias that people who don't wear lipstick are inferior.

Huge difference. That is why fairness creams are receiving a lot of opposition these days.

Sometimes beauty advertisements do cross the line as well. There is a big global pushback against the beauty industry telling impressionable teens and youth that their appearance isn't good enough.

Kajal contains lead , fainess cream can lead to skin cancer if too many chemical products are used on skin , hair coloring can cause scalp cancer . Its always adviced that never color your hair from routes , bleach causes premature aging of skin. With over load of beauty products you are just making your body more toxic , there is nothing natural about these beauty products , too much exposure to such chemical products even effect your brain , malfunction of pituitary gland as it sinks in your skin and enters your blood stream , damages your liver.

Originally posted by: Breather

Dont we all use lipstick?

Dont we all use foundation to hide our blemishes?

Dont we all do contouring to make our cheek bones look higher?

Dont we all wax?

Who on earth is all natural????/ We all in some way or another try to improve ourselves! Why does it become a big deal when stars do plastic surgery to enhance their looks. Why criticize them if it helps them?

Fairness creams- we all the risks. Yet we ourselves choose to buy them. Then why blame the stars for endorsing it? Some people like myself are permanently tanned and have slight discolourations so whats the big deal in buying these creams to help get back to normal colour as I do bliv that my features look better with a even tone.

Whats the big fuss?

I don't blame Fairness creams. They only project reality in their ads.

How many actors we have who are dark skinned? Very few.

Racism is not a byproduct of fairness creams, rather the other way round.

Dark skinned people are always mocked and ridiculed in real life. Fair skinned people have it easy. Fairness creams only project the same and try capitalizing the fact that people don't want to be discriminated on the basis of their colour.

And I agree with you, all the people preaching about staying natural are the same people who put on tons of makeup. I'm sure if they could afford plastic surgery to permanently accentuate those features, they would opt for it rather than putting on makeup every time for the same effect.

PS is ok particularly in the entertainment industry since it's all about beauty & it's a source of living & as long as they are doing out of their own will knowing the risks/benefits, it's fine I guess. Unfortunately a lot of them do not know when to stop & some end up with bad results which is the problem. Now regular ppl trying to achieve the same is uncalled for. Unless you have a nose that you cannot not breath or cleft palate/hare lips, why would anyone want to put themselves thro' such surgeries is beyond me. I was seeing a program of some gals going for botox at 20. Like WTH😡

None of the actors who had plastic surgery went out and endorsed it saying that you have to get it done in order to be successful in life..

Originally posted by: ponymo

I don't blame Fairness creams. They only project reality in their ads.

How many actors we have who are dark skinned? Very few.

Racism is not a byproduct of fairness creams, rather the other way round.

I agree to a certain extent. But it is more of a vicious cycle. Preference to fair skin leads to fairness products. Fairness products reenforce the idea that fair skin is preferred.

Also while fairness creams are merely reflecting society, the message they portray is still problematic. People/Products who turn a blind eye or propagate the problems that persist in society share part of the blame at least.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I agree to a certain extent. But it is more of a vicious cycle. Preference to fair skin leads to fairness products. Fairness products reenforce the idea that fair skin is preferred.

Also while fairness creams are merely reflecting society, the message they portray is still problematic. People/Products who turn a blind eye or propagate the problems that persist in society share part of the blame at least.

Racism has been long existing, even before the advent of fairness creams.

The creams are just playing to the gallery. The day there's no demand for them, they will naturally cease to exist. However, the fallacious ideology that fair skin is better is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that fairness cream ads have little effect.

Fairness creams are just a miniscule part of the bigger problem. The real issue is not the cream, the issue is that what is propagated in the ads is not too far away from reality.