Have you looked in the mirror lately and admired your beautiful black skin?  My mother used to do that often.  She stood 6’1” tall flat feet!  She’d walk by her mirror and say ”Fine Brown Frame”.

My mother lived long before the women basketball players that we see on a daily basis.

Interestingly enough my mother was not a person that took a lot of time with her skin.  She didn’t have to because it was beautiful.

No blemishes, no discoloration, no scares, nothing.  Did my mother have a skin care regimen?  Not really!

It wasn’t until she became an elder that her skin began to show discoloration.

Ironically for my mother, it was her illness and the medication prescribed that caused the change in the appearance of her skin.

What Causes Skin Discoloration?

Medications/Drugs

Every time I question a client about medications, there are certain ones that have similar reactions in the skin of melanated people.

Have you ever noticed the darkening that appears on the faces of people that take certain medications/drugs?

Some medication/drugs have been known to turn a fair skinned person dark, and a brown skinned person darker, sometimes only on their face.

Every other part of their body is still the fair skinned, brown skin being before the meds.

Bleaching Creams

This question has been one that’s been asked for decades.  Have you ever noticed the beauty of the skin of women of color from past photos that you’ve seen?

Remember those brown paper bag test?  Just in case you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, there was a time when black folk were judged and associated with, based on the color of their skin.

You couldn’t be darker than a brown paper bag in order to be “included” in the “mix” of things.

But one of the things that were never made known was the fact that, the very women, those women that were blue black, had magnificent skin.

The women that were more of the brown paper bag complexion were having serious challenges with their skin.

Why do you thinks that’s so?  Mindset!  Marketing!  These women were being told, “The lighter you are the better you are”, here come the bleaching creams.

Foods

Sugar is considered a food and a drug, a drug because it’s so addicting. Have you ever tried to stop eating products with refined sugar?

A physician once told me, that sugar was more devastating on your body than heroin.  Omg!

Sugar is one of the culprits that set off diabetes in the body.  Have you ever noticed the skin of people who are challenged with diabetes?  A lot of them have dark spots on their bodies, especially their faces and ankles.

I’m no physician and this is not a diagnosis and not every dark spot on a persons face or ankles is because they are diabetic, but this is one of the things that occur when you’re challenged with diabetes.

How Do You Lighten Dark Spots Naturally?

Great skin always begins from within.  You are what you eat, drink and think!  Pure blood, pure thoughts give you great skin.  Let’s get real though, who of us eats like we should on a daily basis for maintaining a healthy body and beautiful skin.

Natural ingredients such as aloe vera, shea butter, licorice, jojoba-sweet almond-olive oils are but a few of the natural ingredients available to you for skin care.

Natural skin lighteners have ingredients that will assist you in evening out your skin tone.  You cannot get these results overnight, nor can you get results in three weeks.

If you look at nature you will witness the process that happens when earth replenishes herself.

It takes its time and so should you.

Dedicated To Your Beauty!

Juliette Samuel

Author/Esthetician/Publisher

Nyraju Skin Care