KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she's not worried about skin cancer.
The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-colour common among Jamaica's elite and favoured by many men in her neighborhood. She believes a fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/AP--Skin-bleaching-a-growing-problem-in-Jamaica#ixzz1JEs0AFzB
The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-colour common among Jamaica's elite and favoured by many men in her neighborhood. She believes a fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/AP--Skin-bleaching-a-growing-problem-in-Jamaica#ixzz1JEs0AFzB
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