To each his own, they say. Even in choice of skin care products.
I have an unwavering bias for organic skin products. Go ahead and accuse me of vanity (aren't we all, anyway?), but these things make for good de-stressers, no matter how icky one thinks it can get.
I love vegetables too, and tomato juice. I'd gladly be called a herbivore than consume ridiculous amounts of synthetically modified food. I'm all for carenderia and home cooked goodness. It's all good for the skin too.
And I'm all for my abundant amounts of melanin.
Which makes me wonder why we Filipinos have an unexplained obsession for becoming white washed. Ladies, in particular, top the list of people who wish to look like bond paper. Does it make one look more, er, ethereal? Or attractive to the opposite sex?
If one was born with fair skin, then that's an exception.
And what's ironic is that TV personalities scream "Pinoy, Pinoy, Proudly Pinoy!" followed by Belo or Neutrogena whitening products commercials endorsed by no other than the same persons who brandish slogans of the aforementioned type. Dangerously misleading to even 9-year-old kids who will grow up wanting to shed brown skin.
Well, we've always been an ambivalent people. We've always been made to believe that the Spaniards were better, or that the American was better; and that therefore white skin (among other things) is better. And like what we're wont to do, we blame it on history, but the question is, when are you going to snap out of it?