BEAUTY- A short article to voice up my opinions about the obsession of young Malaysian women to have fair skin.
According to today’s modern societies criterias: youth, thinness, clean skin, make up, nice hair etc. We are bombarded with pictures everywhere of women having fair skin and beautiful face. Video clips, magazines, television ads, always portray girls and women in the same way.
Most of today’s role models for young girls and women spread such a wrong message; outer beauty is much more important than inner beauty.
Young Malaysian women are so obsessed taking supplement that they think can make their skin glows shiny and white without thinking that they had consume hazardous chemicals such as mercury in order to have fair skin!
For those that were not born beautiful, having dark skin, big body size etc, I hope you stop worrying about your outer beauty so much. Know this statement, once you have inner beauty, that is one thing that will never change because outer beauty fades .Instead of worrying about having dark skin, think about how you can be kinder and gentler. Think about how you can leave your mark on this world in a positive way.
Please wake up Malaysian women!
– Mrs H
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agree with you! thank you so much! =)
This is worthy to read.
Screw them,,,i’m proud of my “dark” skintone
I always asked myself,, why people want to be beautiful? But that was when i wasnt aware of my surroundings and usually work alone.
Bila masuk uni, automatik byk kena kerja dgn org.org layan saya nk tak nk je.saya ada rupa, kulit putih, mata brown, etc…except that i was…well…fat. tp kebanyakan kawan2 saya kata saya ni baik.yelah,, dulu2 masa sekolah loner.so bila masuk uni, saya jenis x suka nk gaduh. Saya sll akan buat terbaik untuk jaga hati org n tolong org.but people still treat me so so when i need something.
Gradually i lost weight.A little a first, but i start to notice that people were kinder to me. They attend to what i needed. As if i was treated as a human being equal to them. It felt good. Guys hold doors for me, people ask me out to join group activities, people save seats for me in class, they dont make annoyed faces when i make a mistake, guys initiate conversation with me when im quiet.Even girls want to have a chat with me.Overall,, people take notice of my existance. Like im not invisible anymore or just a passerby.
Yeah,, humans are superficial. Inner beauty is important. Youre beautiful and do one good thing, people see you as a goddess. Youre average looking and do the same, people just ‘Hey yeah, thanks’. Average looking people have to put more effort in doing good to be noticed.
I have been on both side,, but id say being pretty feels just as good as doing good.because you feel like you exist in the ecosystem.
Totally agree! When I try to be nice to people at uni, they treat me so-so. I feel unappreciated, is it because of my dark skin? My sister who has a fair skin is popular at her school. Shes being treat nicely at school by her seniors and juniors. (Well there are other factors why she received such treat).
Sometimes Im envy with fair skin people, they received attention although their attitudes are not nice as their looks.
But now who cares, screw those people! Im tan and Im proud of it. People began to appreciate me more but as you said, I had to put LOTS of effort
Sllu kne kutuk sbb x putih…huhuhuuu…..