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[Cipherr]

Could just be shopped or the way the picture was taken. What does she look like in person today?

edit:

http://www.theindychannel.com/entertainment/indiaarie-blasts-skin-lightening-rumors_42717886

And she says that is indeed what it was.

^^ Yeah, a lot of these are just likely photos taken with flash in weird lighting mixed with photoshop touchups.

You have to be pretty damn gullible to buy some of this stuff.

 

[Tristam]

I live In South Korea and these whitening products are popular here. They don't want be white, they just want to have a little control over their skin tone, like tanning.

White skin has indeed been prized in Korea for centuries, well before Westerners had ever set foot on the peninsula. Hendrick Hamel's journal is good evidence for this. Here's a list of things that have only been prized in Korea for the past few decades: a 'high' forehead, an aquiline nose, a narrow face, thin lips, large eyes, and double-folded eyelids.