have you ever scroll through your social media feed and felt like you are overwhelmed with unless moved to tips? we asked audience on facebook. beauty means to them. i'm slomo puts rate from that barrier, wrote decent director as that suite. that aside from got a said view to means your character, personal hygiene and soundless theme, you have a bunch of personality as well as how you relate with office. i love his tone, said personal appearance, natural color and social co existence. now we love the fact that he mentioned those enough volumes, but we have our doubts. the visa, duly factors, and international studies shows that people globally invest up to full o as daily into their beauty routines. as that's estimation, isn't it? we're put, the question to i'll follow is on is around it to 7 percent. can see the beauty highly or somewhat important, or least searching for us and say it's a relevant,

interesting me, 42 percent. say back when it's all key. if the brush their teeth, but let's get into this world into beauty, standards and social media out with a friendly chat between my 2 colleagues, favor and rachel, have you done? that's fine. that you're going to fall with social media. everyone can see on child's new beauty to means anyone can learn how to use the right particular product ends, right? elaina for people to come in to fresh. oh, if you like, every day there's a new product that everyone is talking about trying to keep up with them can be tiring, and this can also cost to a lot of money. for example, bullets and she i browse is, was trying to right now. and the mobile i flute is blowing up and take talk is cool . that social media outlets everyone share and then about beauty. but the feel somebody can see like you need to for your every train, the constance pressure of viewing this editor images to most of your mental health

. especially if it expects you to conform to society disgruntled, regardless of what it is that the fax on a new so 15 different a condition called not to use for yeah, we have to go to discrete some links to like the same type version of them. so the good news is that social media also encourages body posted to the, to this can help one to be more self accepted and also promote self image. select 70, okay. itself that idea like beauty train doesn't run by that social media dramatically into, into the perception of what's trending today. maybe updates of tomorrow. thank you. girls, that was definitely on point. there's no i took a closer look at what exactly is behind the beauty standards, where do they come from? who initiates them? what do we do to live up to them? and what prize our pact to pay for that? we asked this question in our stream debate in going on,

and here's how it went. perhaps we can begin by explaining to us what these ideals, particularly here in gardner, in our presence, can seem. a capitalist coach at the 40 s and constance display in, in gardner beauty standards have become very important to young women. so they are all sorts of activities that to be taken by evan canyon, women to shape and scold, see of bodies in different ways from tony just can leaching guess game and wearing waste strain is to shape. yeah. for the in the sets. and we, we have someone here who has actually gone through some of these modifications you're talking about for a copy is a social media sensation hearing gunner actually has also opened the spoken about, you know, bleaching your skin or correcting your body in one way or another. can you tell me why it is you felt you needed to do cause basically i to of life new mice came to freeze into the kaiser of gales. the men i interested in on this social media of

thoughtful. yeah. when you have been lights out, you don't watch ocean get deals from, maybe more the contracts and know that. yeah, but i've also had it said q and gone to that specific advertisement for jobs will ask for farrah skin to women. and i want to find out if you've had this level of thinking where you're like, i might not good enough because of my skin tone. i haven't personally owned assessments go, but she's come 50, right? it's not just an individual level, not just like a male gaze. it's been tie it industry, there's a beauty currency, and that's why we need to expand what it means to be beautiful. whatever your features are, without your notes as big, whether your mouth, but your lips are full. that's just beautiful. why? how did we get here? why is it that we as africans, black africans are in a black society and we're still like yelling. full, westernized beauty, ideals, and everything that we see around odd, adventurous megs. you see a predominantly lighter representation of gum young women. so we go up looking at

these pictures and quite shortly on cautiously, we internalize this. yeah, it's a very long, you know, history of, you know, cause the night zation and we intend a license that do you think if you a slightly darker, if you'll figure out was more like mine and less like you as you would get less work just you will get the job, but the pay may. there's differences in a do you feel like you're doing something home for to the young commands will following you when they see you advertising products to lice in this skin cell, you don't have to follow me. then we have these products coming in through with the coming from the people because of the intention and what they want to do was smuggled. i mean, when at that time has made this not valid but is not being upfront as a customer take product and no product. if you take, you know, you swallow or inject via cosmetic product, cosmetic products, i use on the surface of, of the skate. basically there's no such thing as no, no lightning that there's nothing like that. so the reason i knew

mara's, if you want to watch a longer version of this discussion to get out on our youtube channel. however, considering what we just had, my question is why bless your skin. is it due to color is a fear of being excluded or just wanting to be like everyone else? whatever the case, the outcome may be exactly what you want, but may also go terribly wrong. for the 5 year old, the level where you're just saw behind me, she had that experience with us to wait till south africa here lives naval hon. i thought the 5 year old single mother who has been using scheme which includes for over 15 years i put a stop at the desktop at our it was in the house for that periods. ivan mixed it with my body lucian. so as i can, i could be lights the whole food and not even in the face on an in high twenty's

level home became jealous when have friends gradually became lighter and complex. and she started using the same glitching products, switching to different brands over the years, depending on what her friends, while using fish out as better. beautiful lights like, like a, a white woman that's after the after effects. that's when this, that it was becoming sage. and if she is, especially when i went outside to the side out of my skin we, we went completely wrong level time was not aware of the long term price she paid. but how could she new skin between products are readily available in supermarkets, loans and coma shops in south africa? the parties not a company, but any medical guidance? level home takes us to her knuckles for market to show us how easy it is to buy these cream.

the said there's a car to buy them because they, they're very cheap. some of them are cheap. then from get you one from the delta and then you can even get them from the switch then does. so it's not easy to buy scheme. glitching products. in fact, like we just saw some products just marketed as sport remove us or fault farrah skin. you might even have to read the fine print to realize what they really are. so before get to answer lotion from the corner store. maybe ask your doctor to give you a head start to be good to double expertise of doctors. can you say late?

i'm the, i'm done, didn't really tween doctors extraordinary from johannesburg. let's hear what they have to say. 40 percent of the kinds of bleach, the s q that's according to the world health organization. and more research shows that most are unaware of the potential and home. and does not consult stuck to the same doctors kindly seem to end the end that they've been the advocate us to v against the use of skin bleaching product. the i shocked to find them easily available to shop online products containing mercury steroids and hydro clean on ingredients, which is definitely stating concepts when this is absolutely shocking for me. this is actually the 1st time i've seen a full present type of putting on on the market on the market. yes. freely available like the city and they've been selling condos. yeah. in to make it easy for you to pay that product to the a to, to put the same thing. it's a pretty abbreviated as h 2. now you may think 2 percent is it's

a low amount and 5, but amy, hydro, clean own has been banned out of old products or cosmetic products. you're inside of africa. so way that's one percent, 2 percent. it does not match. i. it cannot be contained in a me cause me to products, it's bad. it's literally bad. the skin bleaching product. a bad inside advert guy. and i forgot to you in so many places. hydro. yeah. and the legal stairway. yeah. but people, us, those selling those exact products on the internet. this patient with the here is a patient who got the steroid act, me on the chest area. so this is classic of it. um, it happens on the chase and on the back on the output that this patient over here is a patient who you can tell was using hydro clean known for a very, very long time. how do we know that they starting to have the complications of the doctor noticed that when patients stop using skimpy to cream, they usually become deka, so they bleach mill and struggle to stop?

it's a back and forth, back and forth. anyone who bleaches a skin will have high put pigmentation when they stop bleaching the skin. so now they have to go through the whole bleaching thing again in order to try it, you know, but not the skin tone. and they don't have the patients for that stuff to happen, you know, long to they want to tap and also they keep going bag. that's why the con, stop function. so a way to nibble hand tries to restore husky with the natural oil. is they hope that husky move you to use? ingredients usually prescribed for maximum of 3 months for 15 years. if you stop using them, you look like a clean mo done because you have steps using them, then excluded or people that getting heads. that's and that's ok. the government should do something about it that you know you got it so there must be stopped today. well young african women and men them as

a bleaching this can it seems like years of public health complaints have evaporated. can we change the script? so what could be your reason for following a beauty ideal that is clearly hazardous to your health? well, some people definitely believe it's the pathway to frame. we've caught up with south africa's upcoming needs, the to the trial of l twins. major on poppy, they say they face challenges and then industry dominated by lighter skin. so by stars, disregarding the legal bond on the cleans cause of south african into and says, and celebrities like, can you both are promoting and selling their creams online. color is in a specific form of racism. stems forms 2 types regarding ducks, kids. it is normalized through images be seen in the media successfully blocked out to the lights. conflictions like beyond say, alicia keys and mariah carey and the under representation of dr. tony. yeah,

i think it's simple, good experiences, lights ok. they have the same amount of grab means i can say, but she's light is obviously you, you look at that on the high end note. you know, we put a on a pedestal, we resist the rising people to the front of l twins in the hometown of jimmy stuart, puffy and major have recently signed with local industry legend west said the next best thing and he pulled up in south africa for you they are at the breaking point with their career and they suddenly some pressure on the twins to all is the at the top of the game, hoping that skin bleaching creams will come to the 8 they started using skin bleaching creams a few months ago as a way to enhance this keen tone to write them out for the camera. they buy a contain of cream for about 7 euro, nothing them about 2 weeks. luckily,

they don't show any signs of damage just yet. but what are the long term effects of the decision to become light to what the doctor's and have been they have to say, but it's so amazing how they use co pays and i'm always application maybe. yeah, yeah, i don't we see here also 2 percent hydro clean and dr. kenny c lee does not approve. it's a condition called alcord notices. ok. it literally means that it gets stop and pigments, right? so on the cheeks, on the forehead area. we can get rid of that pigment, once it's a, it's the, it's the. okay. so we come lights and it's we can only prevent it from becoming dark, kind spreading by using sun screen. but we're country, darker noses. those are the dangers of hydro clean on a when you use it for to know where you guys getting redness. did you ever have

written as a the blue the room. yeah. with the with the just the yeah, that's the face of the story to get that across. as of you actually. yeah. the not just about becoming stop in cafe canteras's are very real. i'm going to discuss with it just being nighttime completion actually helps you be more successful in the music industry or just in general. i've been of course for, for women is more good. but even for me and as of you know, even for me as well, cuz i

do because i was just thinking about like i went to the bottom, you know, so these are the things that need to speak more about the fact that, you know, you don't need to be likes to get a part not to get out here. it doesn't change anything like that. yeah. yeah. we call next 40 this month. yeah. but that's the conversation for the day. yeah. you know, i've looked at these things just big what race is, what kind of yeah, personally different strokes with different folks, but everybody is that the majority, but some people as odd, you know, after the visit, major and puppy stopped using the product they planned to split the message of

being proud of your natural skin tone in the lyrics of the music. from twins, 2 twins, a lesson very well lined. but i'm, it's the pressure it takes more than just a fix can to stay offend excel's. how about solve losses and confidence to i know someone on the bureau a social media stall would fall over 6000000 follows. although she refuses to conform to the evolving perceptions of beauty, she still stands twice as poor and has successfully carved the brand as a beautiful, proud black woman in how community. when you don't believe in yourself, you've got to meet as enough. someone will be gunned as rising. keep top 6 me and formulas and take to cologne. and that has one of the biggest social media profiles in the whole of east africa you had. that's right. with how much your cries comes from a painful take, and that was mercilessly blissful, the ducks keen,

kinda from young and old a lot. i don't want to see other people going through what i went through receiving comments from on to use. that's nice. katie is not good enough, i should like, i probably could beat. so i wanted to be an example to these young ladies or young people that you can come from a, a poor familiar. and you also fight for yourself and get something from me. they said, revenge is a dish, best soft, cool. what, what's causing the not cold is engine as a warm smile and husky for real gal going about of business in health village. internationally to accountants has made waves against much more funds, feed and famous competition from africa. anjanette, one of the 2022. i think the social style was at the 8 people's choice of one to win plus choice. why it makes me feel happy because i know kids are going to be

inspired and they're going to know that things are possible. so it makes me really happy and excited because right now i feel like i did, it are an amazing achievement for the 28 year old. the big deal of online fame has brought unwanted attention, racist, sexist and body shaming. comments to play. com. yes. and that is happening, going to let the touch screen screen head down, windows 10 you, they don't like your skin color, you're black, you know, use it for it to fix you as a woman because i also want to feel like i'm beautiful enough like to the society beauty, stuff, but uh, i had to sit down and look at myself and a see if any, if i change myself, no one even get to people who once accept missed you. but if i stay as a maybe for funding love with me. and guess what? it's husband right now. i love myself more than anyone like i look at myself in the

mirror and i feel like, yeah, i am me with, i'm not perfect or perfect. i am me. i don't want to change myself and you know who's now? so i see the foundation to help children appreciate who they are and where they come from, hoping that this innovation can be a false positive change. so you have to flush and be leaving yourself to be able to be strong and says something to the want. so that's why it is my job, me as a press one to teach these kids that they can be anything they want in this life for them. right now, isn't that stunning, but sure. looks like staying true to one selves can be challenging in today's day and age. but let's look at 5. i have you seen this before? right. they're called facial or tribal marks. and if you're curious like me and want to see someone with these marks,

then you would probably have to visit and measure your southwest region where this fading tradition is still being practice this 5 mega headwind. so let's find out more about both positive and negative perceptions. official markings on with l. a young live ocean, living with them say, shall markins traditionally used to signify identity, meaning age and for the purpose of beautification while they send less amongst the young people to day this to pretty come on a month to your about imagine yourself with. so how does it feel to be one of the young nigerians leaving with the tribal marks the tribal mark is a tradition in life on when they asked to have the 1st one on the last boy, the tribe unlock the case number in case case where she don't have a choice of data with hallmarks, which cried a 26 year old run. some online business west of showcases the products itself and

portrays itself was fairly goods and confidence. yet this wasn't always the case. while growing up, she was awesome, bullied and discriminated against some of which is the faces to date. i still have friends pulling in this my handles page. well, i know i'm the kind of thing that i don't think seems to have an issue involved. the relationship has been for i think then i was actually the same guy. so one of the guys had a, it's a so to thickness experience. and i've got some things they caused me on explain everything to me. that is one doesn't like someone to have time. my mom and i counsel see if i just of to label well i have learned to face the discrimination. i know that you sold the practice official markets as a whole till the, even in legal. so it goes, i just child rights act for beats the mocking of child skin. yeah, to many states the law is not enforced. right. advocates to him to deal with joe is

especially concerned about the fact it can have on children will say performed with fish. i'm lucky and not, i'm not very strong. i've mamo chan to probably not really both because i've differed from the general populace. napa pollution, the tend to be said, we get this. that tends to be bullied. so anything that will mix someone else will be bullied, and even though most of what also feels less than the other person, is actually on constitutional affairs, the rental vacancy of a person. well, supporters of tribal mach, you can see them as traditions passed on through generations and what have so doesn't want future generations to experience the challenges she faced a new tribal log. i think the the was is now is all different from the really nice . yeah. now living in imaging it's, i was so i was, i was so fortunately fast that this just didn't give in children 5 on lock because find some things i foster the call today is that how really mean some,

some child i didn't give this now. my to little have the confidence when the time's gonzalez joe's so forth, the really society so odd with the old in, with the new or might some traditions even have a come back. i'm curious to hear your stories, have you experience colors in a stigma or are you oh, so susceptible to the trends and product placement. so hey, so you want to tell us what you think, you know where to find those on social media or write to us via email. on a more positive note here is a song on embracing your own type of beauty. july come your way again. thank you for watching the polio. gosh to your bills for the 1st got up the sooner we know

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