Filipino Beauty

Recently, there was a video released called 100 Years of Beauty: Philippines.  It has presented in the short video of under 2 minutes how the "concept of beauty" have evolved in the country to the present.

100 Years of Beauty - Episode 6: Philippines (April)

Just watching the video will just give you a glimpse of the what was and the what is.  So here is the link of the research behind the video: click here!

Filipinos have not always wanted to be whiter and in the present, it is not even the standard of beauty anymore.  Foreigners tend to generalize the way we see beauty based on the products in the market that they find - the whitening lotion, the whitening soap, the whitening pill, and all the whitening products.  It's like, "Yeah, all Filipinos want to be white like us."  But then, some foreigners want to be tanned or brown like us!  So what are we comparing here?

Some humans, if not most and if not all, have never been contented on what they are and have.  Brown wants to be white.  Short wants to be tall.  Small wants to be big.  And it goes on...

It might be true that some Filipinos are obsessed with their skin color to the point of taking whitening pills or paying for an expensive procedure in beauty clinics.  Again, not all.

So if you are looking for a normal soap, normal lotion, and normal things based on your standards, please bring them from your country so that you will not encounter being offered a whitening product.  But seriously, there are "normal" products in the Philippine market and I can assure you that.