Light skin Somalis have their own look and fall within the Somali phenotype spectrum
Only Cad Cad and Barwanis etc. Look different and arab etc.
Bleaching, lightness and representation among Somalis
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Only Cad Cad and Barwanis etc. Look different and arab etc.
If you're a light-skin Somali, you'll be commonly mistaken for foreigner (East African Semite/MENA) or having some type of admixture, by Somalis too btw.
Show me a picture of a Somali person you think can be mistaken for foreigner by Somalis.
No you can only notice bleached people if they has red/orange cheeks or hair growing around their beard area
Also if someone is insecure about their skin color thats their fault, get your confidence up. Theres no excuses for bleaching or hating on lightskin people.
Also if someone is insecure about their skin color thats their fault, get your confidence up. Theres no excuses for bleaching or hating on lightskin people.
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Why do they have hair growing around their sideburns and beard area?
The chemicals produce follicles apparantly lol its a very strange phenenomem
You can tell when someone bleaches, they look like a corpse, ashy and otherwise afflicted. I cannot imagine the diseases they get from the chemicals and what they pass onto their children when pregnant.
Knock off products flood xamar, the creams they're buying are fake and got a shit ton of side effects. I used to see them shaving their cheeks early in the morning when i was there. Its sad tbh, i used to live around an area in Sayidka that had a market of khat and majority of the women selling had red cheeks and & hair growing from the face
I saw the same thing as well. I just assumed that some were just naturally hairy and that their natural darker skin color hid it, but not that they're lighter its easier for everyone to see.
Now it's a trend to bleach skin, and there is actually a Vitamin E pill that is green in colour that Somali women use to lighten their skin, but the side effects are filthy, like it literally causes the woman to baloon in size which makes her skin stretch out causing her to appear fairer when her skin has just stretched. I recommend watching Habo Fathia Absie's video on this as she has videos of women advertising the pill and you can see the name of it there , I can't remember at the moment but yeah. But if Somalia had a film industry, which I doubt it would, then I feel like the ideal Somali woman (in society) would be used to portray this, for example the large hips and skin which is between light and dark, and a thin nose etc. I don't necessarily think that the majority of Somali women have an issue with their skin tone, nor do Somali men have a preference for lighter skin tones, in all honesty they just want a wife. But I feel like the impact of Bollywood, which uses lighter skinned actors and actresses, as the Indian beauty standard is as such, is very important on the Somali female community as now they feel the need to make themselves lighter or to have softer hair to fit that Bollywood aesthetic. Also the whole "Ana Carab" thing too has really gotten to people's minds, not just women.
My stepmum was confused for an Egyptian woman twice, and her being able to speak Arabic did not help in the slightest.
I look somali. Obviously some idiots in Massachusetts think Iβm ethiopian or indian but in Minnesota everyone knows Iβm somali. Yemeni? I would be insulted.Apparently none of us actually look Somali on this site , huh?
There's nothing wrong with looking Somali, buddy
Leila
Wanaag iyo Dhiig kar
When I went back home there were these women who would mix different creams in big tubs, different creams containing all kinds of ingredients even steroids. They are not aware that these products are harmful stripping the layers of your skin.
Its called qas qas and everyone who sells skin creams claims its βnatural and herbalβ. In Nairobi and Xamar its sold in almost every shop, I told so many women that this stuff is dangerous , you can even get liver damage and infertility from this.
Its called qas qas and everyone who sells skin creams claims its βnatural and herbalβ. In Nairobi and Xamar its sold in almost every shop, I told so many women that this stuff is dangerous , you can even get liver damage and infertility from this.
I donβt know but I think those who bleach can be distinguished by their weird looking skin?
In my parents time, any one who bleached was called out, it was a thing which ppl viewed it as ceeb and shamed any woman who done that and caused a gossip tea party among other women.
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I think with that said, the general representation would have been average brown among actors if Somalia was stable. A state with regime like Siyaad barre with all its down sides will not tolerated any bleaching ad or import.
the tabloid magazines will have a section for those celeb who bleached,
They all look very and I mean very Somali. Youβll see them and think nothing else but Somali.
