“I used bleaching cream for over 15 years, I’m just 35 and I look older than my age now” – Lady opens up

• Lebogang, a 35-year-old woman, has expressed her distress over the severe damage caused by years of use of bleaching creams on social media.

• The lady’s decision to bleach her skin was influenced by her friends’ lighter skin tones, which she considered a standard of beauty.

• The individual sought to enhance her appearance by using bleaching creams to lighten her complexion.

After using bleaching creams for years, a 35-year-old lady known only as Lebogang has resorted to social media to express her displeasure with the serious damage the cream has done to her skin.

The lady claimed that her friends’ lighter skin tones, which she saw as a standard of attractiveness, had an impact on her decision to bleach her own skin.

She turned to using multiple bleaching creams to lighten her complexion since she was driven to get what she thought was a more appealing appearance.

The extent of her obsession with getting a lighter skin tone was disclosed in an interview with DW’s “77 Percent.”

“I couldn’t stop at all; I was hungry for that beauty. I even mixed the bleaching creams with my body lotion to lighten my entire body, not just my face,” Lebogang said.

Lebogang described herself as “very beautiful, light like a White woman” at first, noting a significant change in her complexion.

She started to experience adverse effects, so the initial benefits were temporary.

In her words;

“First I was very beautiful light like a white woman but after the effect that it started and I was becoming red and itchy especially when I went outside to the sun and my skin goes completely wrong.”

“If you stop using them, you look like a crane, you look more older because you have stopped using them, they are not good at all.”

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