Shade bias revolves around the preferential treatment of people with a lighter skin tone - and writer ... than your natural skintone, using bleaching creams will seem like the only answer.

Many bleaching creams contain harmful chemicals like ... “While many people use skin-bleaching products to address dark spots, uneven skin tone, hyperpigmentation, and scars, bleached skin ...

"Illegal bleaching creams and soaps are a major problem," Bouch says. "And once we eradicate it from Brixton, it will go to another borough where there's a big Asian or Black population." ...

In 2022, Kartel called out critics in a statement likening skin bleaching to Black women altering their hair. “99.99% of Black Women (1)cream their hair or (2)wear ‘caucasian’ wigs,” he ...

According to HotNewHipHop, Vybz shared similar thoughts in now-deleted Instagram posts in 2022, where he defended his skin bleaching. "99.99% of Black Women (1)cream their hair or (2)wear ...