To my nine-year-old self, this was a lightbulb moment, a call from God. My auntie was unpacking and she pulled out a cream that said ‘skin light’. I was nine when I did it (at the peak of the bullying).
#DOES RIHANNA SKIN BLEACH SKIN#
Skin bleaching is the use of a very invasive, unregulated product to change and alter your skin complexion to make it lighter. He often tells me “I don’t know what the issue was with those girls but they are rude.” It’s crazy how we were dealing with colourism so intensely at that young age. We even talk about it now because we’re still friends. Don’t listen to what anyone says about you.” I will never ever forget that letter. It said: “No matter your skin tone, no matter how dark you are, I still think you are the most beautiful girl in the world. It got so bad, they cornered me and were like, “you think you’re this and that.” and I never had the balls to tell them to shut the fuck up. They were like: “How can he like you, you’re so dark?” and “your teeth are like little bunny teeth!” because I had a little overbite.
I had a chicken pox mark in the middle of my forehead that I still have and I was called “the dark skin bindi girl.” A cool, lighter skin boy liked me and caused a lot of hate in my direction. Bullying about my skin tone probably started at nine years old and it was actually by the lighter-skinned black girls at school. I’m from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff. Here, London-based musician Bree Runway pens a first-person piece reflecting on her difficulties with being a dark-skinned black woman growing up and her experiences with colourism and skin bleaching.
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