Nikki Boamponsem, the CEO of skin care company, Second Image. described women who have an urge to change their skin colour, and hence bleach, as mentally disabled.
Get more news about current issues in Ghana here Speaking at a seminar organised as part of the African Makeup and Beauty Fair in Accra, Mrs Nikki cautioned women against this action as it is unhealthy for them.
“Don’t try and change your skin colour, If you try to change your colour, you are mad. Apart from the physical madness, you can become mad from using some of the products,” she claimed.
She added, “it’s a [symptom of] very low esteem to say that ‘I don’t like my face; my man likes fair women so I have to change my colour’ at once it means you are mad.”
Mrs Boamponsem admonished women especially dark skinned women to love their skin and be content with it as it is God’s gift to them.
“The reason why we are talking about skin is that, any colour of skin is beautiful if you look after it.
If you have dark skin and you’ve allowed it to go dull, you think your colour is not nice… but then if you treat your black [skin] well, it will shine, it will glow and at the age of 90, you can still look good.”
According to her, any treatment that aims at bleaching the skin can cause serious damage to one’s health and wellbeing.
“So be proud of your skin because all these injections, they tell you, they are causing cancer, they are causing brain damage, kidney problems and all that.
Why do you want to interfere with anything in your body just because you want to be fair?” she stressed.
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