[tucan]

How do I lightrn my skin color

[olagirl]

Am not here to judge you, but I need to have an idea why you want to lighten your skin?

Do you have hyper pigment ation, melasma or what because I had one of this problems

If you are much clearer on why you ant to lighten I could give you info on a safe way to go about it.

I just hope it has nothing to do with you being too dark

[gorgeouslady]

If he or she wants to lighten his or her skin there is nothing wrong with it and it seems to me like you are actually judging tucan.on this site we want suggestions not critics or judgement.save that for oprah!!

[gorgeouslady]

tucan,go to the skin lightening forum.you will get lots of suggestions but you just have to research quite well before you jump into anything you will regret later.good luck.

[olagirl]

See you don't know where am coming from gorgeus lady so save the drama

There are various things I can suggest to tucan and I do not want to recommend a wrong product 4 him/her that's y I asked all those questions if he/she had melasma or hyper pigmentation or wotever , u can actually READ that I wrote that I actually lightened my shade too, wouldn't I be a hyocrite to "judge" him/her?

Besides I suggest you shld always read mails properly before you attack people have a good day

[gorgeouslady]

You don't have to have any kind of skin disease to think about having your skin lightened.I don't know what your point is olagirl but anyone can lighten their skin if they want to regardless of whether they are suffering from something or not.it's a personal choice and not your choice to make for them.have a good day too!and for your information I always read mails VERY WELL before I reply!I know you said you had some skin disorder and that's why you lightened up your skin but you also said you just hope that he or she is not lightening up the skin just because he or she is dark!maybe you should also read what you wrote.it may help you.

[olagirl]

I said hope its not because you are "TOO" dark because I don't know what kind of cream to recommend for very dark skin because all the safe creams I know have never worked for people I know with very dark skin besides this is not about you so please...

I just want him/her to lighten safely because when I started lightening I did it the wrong way and had the skin disorders I mentioned above

See like I said its not right to jump into conclusions about what people write and I am only going out of my way to explain what I wrote becos now I know there are people like you that misunderstand what people write..

Now please lets put a rest to this because am not in this forum because of u !am here to get advice from people and equally give advise so back off! This is the end of this I will not reply to your posts anymore regardless of what you write cz am so much better than that am new here and I don't want to be sent packing

Ciao ciao

[olagirl]

Hey tuscan this is a very comprehensive summary I saw and copid for you to read and it's the basics you need she highlighted that if you are very dark you could use hydroquinone BUT on a short term basis because of the negative long term effect... goodluck

Ola

If you are looking for brightening and a little bit of lightening then consider using makari or buy a skin lightening kit at skinactives.com.

Sun screen (especially proection against UVA which is what causes skin darkening), vitamin C serum (10-30% concentration), AHA peels( like glycolic acid or lactic acid. Daily at no more then 10% and weakly get that done professionally), microdermabrasion or enzyme peels, retinol or Retin-A. all these treatments help to brighten and smoothen the skin while allowing other topical treatments to penatrate deeper so that they work better.

There are suppliments like glutathione (injections cause pills don't get absorbed readily through injestion), vitamin C, A and E, selenium, cysteine, Alpha Lipoic acid, MSM, Whey protein, melatonin, glysine and glutamine.

There is also the typical Hydroqinone but that's better for sort term (no more then 4 months) treatments for hyperpigmentation but it has potential for lightening the skin complexion. There is a risk of ochronsis but that risk can be reduces if you use HQ properly. At no more then 2% for no more then 4 months then maintain with another skin lightener.

There is also fast treatments like Hydrogen peroxide (etta's bleaching powder). I don't know what would be a safe and effective concentration to do this treatement but etta has a line of cosmetics that seem to work well on even the darkest skins. HP is relatively safe but very irritating and drying to the skin. Our bodies produce HP naturally to help oxygenate tissues and some people will acutally go to doctors and get HP injections for health benefits and anti aging. There are people who produce too much HP in the skin which causes their skin to be bleached from the inside out ( non as some forms of virtiligo). HP is used in skin oxygen facial masks at spas and its also used to bleach dark facial hair. There are different grades of HP and only use a product with cosmoseutical grade and never mix up our on batch at home.

There are other skin lightening actives, arbutin, kojic acid, lemon bioferment, bearberry extract, mulberry extract, licorice root extract... products like Euoko Carrara collection has a pretty good list of some popular and effective skin lightening actives. I wouldn't bother with euoko cause the stuff is so expensive but you can note the actives and compare with other products out there.


Hope this helps.