What the Wednesday

This weeks' "What the...? Wednesday: Skin Whitening Products.

Concentrated Skin Repairing System with Good Sleep Mechanism Technology WHITENING & Anti Wrinkle

This was given to me at a store as a free sample. Skin whitening is as popular here as tanning is in the states. Most teenagers in the States can't wait to emerge from the tanning box looking like Snooki while young Korean women lather on skin whitening products to maintain/get a creamy white complexion. They wear hats and use umbrellas to deflect the sun's harsh rays, and then use beauty products like this to reverse any adverse affects that horrid ball in the sky might have.

The dream of white skin dates back to when the only people who had pale skin were royalty. If you were a peasant you had a horrific tan from working in the fields. Oh the shame of hard work. 

Come January, I won't need any product at all. I will probably be the envy of some Koreans and a white pasty disgusting glob to westerners. Reason # 129 why I love Korea.