Ebonyi Lawmaker, Maria Ude Nwachi blasts men and women who bleach their skins

Maria Ude Nwachi, a lawmaker at the Ebonyi state House of Assembly, said this in a post she shared on her Facebook page today.

FOR BLEACHING IDIOTS:

Skin bleaching liable for skin cancer, hypertension-Dermatologist

[The most idiotic thing on this earth for anyone to do is to tamper with your natural color. When I see ladies who bleach, it tells me all I need to know about them. They have nothing upstairs. They are shallow, materialistic, worldly, vapid, self-loathing with zero confidence & zero self-esteem.

They are also as dumb as a wall. I don’t even give a damn if they are successful materially, I see them as failures in life. Michael Jackson with all the money he had, attempted to be white, but ended up looking like an unfortunate white woman.

You will surely end up looking like a monster sooner or later if you keep hating your color and tampering with it using your various despicable bleaching/ whitening creams and concoctions. The health implications of this stupid and embarrassing act of telling the world, God made a mighty error with their natural tone that requires self-correction, cannot be over-stated. So many girls that were beautiful naturally, but decided being yellow was their only hope, started rubbing rubbish bleaching cream, today look like worn-out hags that sleep with 50 men a day. Continue, idiots.

You’re a man & you are bleaching or whitening your skin, you do not deserve to be a man. You be 100% ODE. Gerrout of my face, shameless ill. – #BCEL]

A Dermatologist, Prof. Olayinka Olasode has warned people against skin bleaching, saying a bleached skin was prone to skin cancer, hypertension, diabetics among other diseases. Olasode, who teaches at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, gave the warning in an interview with Newsmen in Ile-Ife on Wednesday.

She said that skin lightening creams used in the bleaching process contained steroid and hydroquinone which had adverse effect on the skin.

Olasode also told Newsmen that those who engaged in bleaching risked their nails turn brown, body odour, profuse sweat, hot feelings and lacking comfort during the dry season. The professor stated that the original skin of every human being was for body protection, adding that such skin would lose its immunity to protect the body once bleached.

“We are naturally protected by the original skin. A bleached skin is prone to cancer and other diseases because the chemical used has removed the immunity from the skin,’’ she explained. She stated that the people needed to be educated on how to take care of their original skin colour from the birth.

“God has a reason for creating us the way it pleases Him. We must cherish our skin, be it black, chocolate, brown or light complexion. “It is lack of contentment and understanding that make our people use various means to change the colour of their skin.

Those involve do so at their detriment.’’ The dermatologist urged people to always use ordinary soap and cream on their skin.

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