Fairness

by Lady Divine (divine3.blogspot.com)

Y-day afternoon I went shopping for a wedding gift and stopped at a beauty products counter to get powder blush. The sales girl gave me what I wanted and casually showed a fairness cream (which probably cost a fortune)and said I should try it. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve got dark skin.

I looked at her and said I wasn’t interested in fairness creams. She looked at my face again and said that I really should try it, to which I responded saying No. She just wouldn’t give up! She said that I was quite dark and that I should use it.

This really ticked me off so I looked into her eyes and told her that I’m fine with my complexion and that I don’t want anything to do with fairness creams!! I didn’t sound rude though coz she was just doing her job afterall..

But seriously… a part of me felt sort of offended I guess.. coz she kept shoving that damn cream at me face. It’s ok to suggest the product but not push it so much. Don’t they bother to think how the person they’re talking to actually might be feeling?

I know my mum wishes I had her fair complexion and not my dad’s dark skin. I know when I was in school I always wanted to be fair coz the way things were, it was always ‘fair is beautiful’.

But I’m fine with things now and I don’t want any damn fairness creams! and I always knew that you can’t drastically change the pigmentation in your skin.

I was angry at this so wanted to let it out. Now I’m fine. On a different note – For the first time in my life, I went to a wedding last night which had a seashell theme. Unusual I would say and kinda nice. Except the poruwa and setty-back kinda looked really funny.

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