white mirage

 

 

 i had this patient a teenager with skin type 5 who was so depreesed cuz of her color. she is the darkest among 4 sisters all of whome r white. she was called names since she was young and apparently she doesnt go to parties no more and going through depresion.

 then i saw this article, and couldnt help to wonder why in our community do we crave white color. why do we look into brown color as an inferior color?  ?. moms are not the only ones to be blamed, we are feeding this illusion as drmatologists when we attempt to treat patients who want be paler (sorry whiter). i can understand and treat melasma and PIH but brown skin (asmarani) ? and if they finaly mange to dilute their face then what about the rest of the body.

is white more beatiful? or is it linked to superior dominant races. are we mesmorised by the white french, turk and english invader? or is white pure and pristine. i have alotta patients complaining of dark elbows and knees holding them on examination as if their limbs are someone’s else.

there are even many cosmetic products which promotes white skin, prmosing girls to ‘fade out’ thier color if they use it continously. i herd that when a vitligo patient used benoquine for depigmentaion her normal sister came asking for the cream. other patients who turned white after benoquine got married in record times. the temptation is so strong to the degree that i herd some patients who had vitligo in the finger tips only had depigmentaion.

ironicaly tan is considered a hot commodity in the west where most people are white. they even lay naked on the beach all day just to look like us. they crave tan, they burn themselves and invite skin cancer to be tan pretty. are we always looking to stand out of the crowd? to be different and unique?. will if you think about it, gold, ivory, and moon rock are all expensive and they all have one thing in common, they are scarce.

whtining injections,i herd alot about these injections but never seen them. but most patients who ask me about them are vitligo patients. am not sure what they mean when they say eber taftee3, we all know MBEHQ (benoquine cream), but i haven seen anyone who knows about these injections. it sounds like a legendary myth!they might be sterids or potent quinones if they ever exist. or are they refering to meso?

white, brown, black or tan are just shades of our skin.they are allbeatiful. nothing is wrong with any with them, its just us,  believing the myth fabricated by grannma

have a nice summer

and  a nice tan

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