{"id":6201,"date":"2016-05-14T23:44:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2016-05-14T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:14:47","slug":"fair-lovely-dark-skinned-fairness-cream-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=6201","title":{"rendered":"Fair &#038; Lovely Will Drop &#8220;Fair&#8221; From its Brand Name. Why Dark-skinned Girls Like Me Are Cheering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s finally happened. After\u00a0years of criticism, Hindustan Unilever is finally dropping the word &#8220;fair&#8221; from its fairness cream Fair &#038; Lovely. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had proposed several amendments to how products like fairness creams could be advertised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the cringeworthy global embarrassment of having our Ministry of Magic AYUSH issuing official advisories that recommended what my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/when-mothers-visit-living-alone-bombay-parents\/\">mom<\/a> calls \u201ctotkas\u201d such as drinking water boiled with tulsi leaves; rubbing sesame oil, balms and other strange potions in the nostrils every morning; and taking diluted versions of a potentially fatal compound to prevent contracting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/health\/coronavirus-spanish-flu-ebola-have-in-common-terrible-timing\/\">Coronavirus<\/a>, I honestly didn\u2019t think it could happen. But it has. A few days ago, someone within the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare finally woke up and went to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry has proposed several welcome amendments to the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954, to stay apace with changing times and technology. The draft bill forbids the advertising of any product that falsely claims to \u201ccure\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/health\/loneliness-caregiver-mental-health-disease-illness\/\">diseases<\/a> they can\u2019t provably cure. Which means no more advertising of products that promise fairer skin. No more telling frenzied parents that this health drink or that energy bar can boost brain capacity, memory, or height. No telling people that this toothpaste or that can make teeth stronger. And no \u201ccures\u201d for ageing or greying.<br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">You see, I had the misfortune of being born fair as a ghost, then turning dark in my teen years.<\/blockquote><br>The absurdity of grouping the entirely natural processes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/why-young-people-fear-ageism\/\">ageing <\/a>and greying under \u201cdisease, disorder, or condition\u201d aside, I couldn\u2019t help but chortle in delight at the impending misfortune of companies and brands that have been, for decades, preying on (mostly) women\u2019s insecurities and hawking remedies to imagined plights such as looking our age and accepting the presence of melanin in our skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before I officially became too old to be married to a respectable Indian man who obviously considered a milky-white <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/the-wedding-detective\/\">bride<\/a> his birthright, I was among the tens of millions of women of \u201cmarriageable women\u201d in India who reluctantly became part of the fairness industry. You see, I had the misfortune of being born fair as a ghost, then turning dark in my teen years. Obviously, that would not do. So, from age 13 to 30, my parents spent lakhs of rupees and much of their time in trying to procure my lost damakta gorapan and sunehra nikhar. Ubtans and pastes were mixed with vigour. Haldi, honey, malai, ghee, lemon, sea-salt\u2026 My face masks often had more exotic ingredients than the food we ate, true story. Relatives visiting from the US and Europe were ordered to bring back family-sized packs of lotions and potions with unpronounceable ingredients by my grandmother. She was convinced that the whiteness of the woman on the box would rub off on me. I\u2019d dutifully apply them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 24 to 29, this obsession with my skin was at its peak. For my 25th, a loving uncle, worried that time was running out and all the \u201cgood, rich men\u201d would soon be taken, gifted me a bridal package at a skin \u201cclinic\u201d that included peels, polishes, and other assorted horrors. Now unless you\u2019re an apple, the thought of being polished and peeled should put the fear of god in you. But I didn\u2019t know this then, and so I dutifully went for three (of ten) sessions. At the third session, the aesthetician slathered my skin with chemicals so harsh, it was as if she wanted the skin to melt off of my face. I kept shedding skin for a week after, and was under house arrest for 10 days, too scared to step out into the sun with what felt like burns on my face. My family swore off skin clinics, but the masking and moisturising saga continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tragically, mine\u2019s not an exceptional or particularly extreme story. Millions of girls and women in India endure similar nonsense, bordering on torture, thanks to our collective ridiculous obsession with fairness. I know dozens of women who didn\u2019t learn how to swim in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/moving-out-home-childhood-parents-heartbreak\/\">childhood<\/a> because their families drilled it into their heads that, \u201cnahi, nahi, tan ho jayega, skin kharab ho jayegi\u201d.<br><blockquote class=\"quote--center\">I couldn\u2019t help but chortle in delight at the impending misfortune of these companies and brands.<\/blockquote><br>Even today, every time I visit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/parlour-lady-salon-eyebrow-threading\/\">parlour<\/a>, when I politely thwart every upselling attempt, the beautician whips out the brahmastra, guaranteed to obliterate every shred of resistance: \u201cbahut tanning ho gayi hai madam, bleaching ki bahut zaroorat hai\u201d, fully expecting me to gasp in fright and submit to her ministrations. There\u2019s a reason women in India ride two-wheelers looking like Daku Mangal Singh, and that reason is not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/earth\/policy-tackle-india-pollution-individual-action-woke-citizens\/\">pollution<\/a> or the fear of cancer. If carcinogens were the concern, the Indian fairness cream market, pumped with chemicals that can\u2019t possibly be a good idea, would not be $450 million and growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s true, banning the advertising of such products is not suddenly going to cure us of our longstanding love for fairness. Nor is it going to suddenly stop the subtle snubs and ridicule that women with darker skin are often subjected to. You can stop people from peddling the product, but you can\u2019t keep them from equating fair with lovely, or from shamelessly taking out ads seeking gori brides. We need a whole lot more than cracking the whip at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/independence-day-indian-brands\/\">brands<\/a> and their endorsers. But banning these ads is still a great leap forward. It matters when the most popular men and women in the country are legally barred from telling us that this cream or that lotion will magically transform us into a \u201cmore acceptable\u201d version of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe, if they\u2019d been stopped 10, 15, 20 years ago, I wouldn\u2019t have started looking for 700 signs of ageing while still in my 20s, and spent all that time furthering my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/indian-parents-career-paths-media-industry\/\">career<\/a> instead of agonising over problems that didn\u2019t exist. And maybe I wouldn\u2019t look at every new white hair like a nail in my coffin. But I\u2019m glad it\u2019s happening now. Here\u2019s to a generation of women who won\u2019t squander away the equivalent of a car\u2019s downpayment on creams and sprays that will make their underarms match their faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of criticism, the fairness cream Fair &#038; Lovely will drop the word &#8220;fair&#8221; from its brand name. That&#8217;s a great step forward, but you can\u2019t keep people from equating fair with lovely. 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