Skin lightening has gained enormous popularity in recent years. The first thing that comes into most peoples minds when you mention this topic, is people like the late Michael Jackson who want to lighten their overall skin tone by several shades. That type of skin whitening is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact there are far many more people who are interested in skin lightening for other reasons. Most people are more interested in spot lightening problem areas, whether it be brown marks caused by sun damage such as age spots or freckles, or problems caused by hormonal issues such as melasma or post inflammatory hyperpigmentation. Melasma commonly occurs during or after pregnancy, due to all the hormonal changes and post inflammatory hyperpigmentation is the medical name given to the scarring that occurs in connection with inflammatory skin problems such as acne. Another area of spot skin lightening that has grown tremendously over the last decade and especially so in the last few years, is that of intimate area lightening and in particular anal bleaching. Both vagina and anus bleaching have become a more mainstream practice as pornography has become more readily available and acceptable with the general public. Intimate area skin bleaching has been popular with adult film actors and actresses for many years and now it appears that many everyday people want to emulate this look themselves. The subject of intimate area bleaching has also come up in mainstream movies and tv shows in recent years, with mentions in reality shows such as the Kardashians and Geordie Shore and a hilarious scene in the movie Bridesmaids. It's interesting how a craze can take off and suddenly lots of people start thinking that this is something they need to do. While a lot of people will feel that this is quite a bizarre and unnecessary practice, there are many others who take it very seriously and feel like it is something they must do to feel good about themselves. When you think about it, people do all kinds of things to their appearance for all sorts of reasons... from wanting to feel better about themselves, to wanting to fit in with others or to attract attention from admirers, the list goes on and on. We pierce, tattoo, dye, nip, tuck, lift, enhance, tan, lighten and on and on it goes. It seems we are seldom just happy, with the way we are.
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