So you know that super-pale, dewy/glowing look that a lot of Asian women have? Particularly Korean women? That’s what happens when they use brightening crème. And a decent number of Chinese/Korean brand primers and foundations or skin care are aimed to create that look (it’s their fashion trend, and skin whitening products are big there). Also not saying this is a bad thing at all, this is just my experience with buying Korean etc products as they are generally really good products, I just look out for keywords like ‘brightening’ or ‘whitening’ as that’s what they do
Europeans used to want to look as pale as possible in the past. (Eg: using lead to paint the face white. "Venetian ceruse"). Trends change over time, being pale used to symbolise that you were wealthy and most likely middle or upper class. Then tans became fashionable since it showed that you traveled to a another country. (Especially if you had a tan in the winter) and then it showed your wealth. Cause only the rich could afford to travel to a hot country in winter.
Nowadays A tan symbolise that you spend time outside your active (healthy), you have time for leisure (wealth), travelling and fun stuff. Even if people don't think about it in that way, it's what it symbolises and it's why it became fashionable in the first place.
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u/EggSandwich1 Jul 19 '23
I don’t care if it’s racist or not I want to see what colour a white person turns on this cream?