Vaseline Issues “Skin-Whitening” App for Facebook – Tech Talk – CBS News (via Wood Chips)

Why? So we make an image of ourselves lighter. What use is that? Is that just a template so we can run down to the plastic surgeon so that we kill ourselves slowly with surgery? Are we going to be like the woman who is risking her life because she wants the worlds biggest mammaries? Is that the message your want your life to be?

For Pete’s sake! Vaseline has introduced a skin-lightening Facebook application designed to allow users to lighten their skin color in the profile pictures displayed on the social network site. The company has chosen Bollywood star Shahid Kapur to promote the application as well as its other skin-lightening creams for men. In the widget promising to “Transform Your Face On Facebook With Vaseline Men,” Kapur’s face is presented divided into dark a … Read More

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  2. derrickpisani

    Of course everybody wants their photo on facebook to look better than they look in real life :) What's racist with that… if you're dark, you won't become blonde? Some people may want to look more like the photos they see on magazines and the stars on TV… their choice and shouldnt bug anyone. Vaseline's app promises to do this for the dark-skinned who want to hide it on facebook and maybe forever http://ow.ly/2e6Zp

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