Sammy Sosa says skin rejuvenation process reason his skin appears lighter
That is some serious lighting if the photo is exaggerating it. He looks like he pulled some MJ stuff. OMG....doesn't even look the same. If that is what skin rejuvenation does...take you from a handsome, dark man and makes you into that blotchy pale lookin mess...I would want no parts of it. He looks freakish in that 3rd photo.
Full Version: Sammy Sosa done turned white
what the hell kind of "skin rejuvenation" procedure did he undergo? I've heard that people with darker skin should not have chemical/dermabrasion peels done because it can cause splotchy/uneven skin coloration. But in Sosa's case, it looks even, just SCARY.
Sammy needs to start bringing his translator to his doctors appointments because it looks like there is some serious miscommunication happening here. Either that or he inherited Michael Jackson's skin care products in the will.
I was reading an article in the paper the other day about how skin lightening treatments are becoming popular with men in India. I wouldn't be surprised if Sammy is getting some of these treatments done.
Globe and Mail: Fair or not, Indian men seek ways to lighten skin
Looked at that Sammy photo again, and even his eyes look a different color. So I wonder if the photo wasn't altered slightly. In the first two his eyes are black, but in the last one they are green. That said, if he suddenly develops a cleft in his chin, the tip of his nose falls off and he starts moonwalking to first base, we'll know from whose doctor he's getting those "treatments" done.
Globe and Mail: Fair or not, Indian men seek ways to lighten skin
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Anil Chopra, 35, says he makes time for his regular beauty regime at a Delhi salon because “there is more competition to look presentable in the corporate world today.
“It can also help with the ladies,” he adds, winking awkwardly as the clinician scrapes thick white paste from his face.
Mr. Chopra is one of a growing number of Indian men, both urban and rural, who have recently adopted the female habit of using skin lighteners or bleaches in the belief that a pale complexion brings success in life, love and business.
International cosmetic giants such as Nivea, Avon, L'Oreal and Unilever are cashing in on this trend but the market leader is an Indian firm, Emami Group Ltd. In the four years since it launched its “Fair and Handsome,” skin-lightening cream for men, the company has seen sales grow annually by 35 per cent to about $30-million, says its director Mohan Goenka.
“It can also help with the ladies,” he adds, winking awkwardly as the clinician scrapes thick white paste from his face.
Mr. Chopra is one of a growing number of Indian men, both urban and rural, who have recently adopted the female habit of using skin lighteners or bleaches in the belief that a pale complexion brings success in life, love and business.
International cosmetic giants such as Nivea, Avon, L'Oreal and Unilever are cashing in on this trend but the market leader is an Indian firm, Emami Group Ltd. In the four years since it launched its “Fair and Handsome,” skin-lightening cream for men, the company has seen sales grow annually by 35 per cent to about $30-million, says its director Mohan Goenka.
Looked at that Sammy photo again, and even his eyes look a different color. So I wonder if the photo wasn't altered slightly. In the first two his eyes are black, but in the last one they are green. That said, if he suddenly develops a cleft in his chin, the tip of his nose falls off and he starts moonwalking to first base, we'll know from whose doctor he's getting those "treatments" done.
QUOTE(mdterp01 @ Nov 7 2009, 11:30 PM) 
Yikes!...That 3rd photo looks like he should be laying inside a casket.
The Sammy Sosa beer commercial.
Sammy admitted to bleaching his skin but my mother and boyfriend think its a cover for the steroids he was using, which has now triggered vitilago. If true...he'd rather be known as a self hating dark brown Dominican brotha trying to look more white and European than a steroid abusing fraud. Shame Shame Shame.
A Miami DJ is thrown out of a Sammy event.
QUOTE(mdterp01 @ Nov 12 2009, 10:17 PM)
Sammy admitted to bleaching his skin but my mother and boyfriend think its a cover for the steroids he was using, which has now triggered vitilago. If true...he'd rather be known as a self hating dark brown Dominican brotha trying to look more white and European than a steroid abusing fraud. Shame Shame Shame.
Nah, it's not vitiligo. It's skin bleaching. He also started wearing colored contacts a few years ago, and conking his hair to make it straighter. Keep in mind that he comes from a society that has more people of African descent (close to 90% or more of the total population, more so than Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Honduras, etc.) than any other Spanish-speaking country in the world, but which also has a LONG and violent history of racial repression, racism and white supremacy. One of the Dominican Republic's most infamous dictators, Trujillo, ordered the mass slaughter of Haitians and dark-skinned Dominicans living on the border between the two countries in 1937. Edwidge Danticat has written a great book, The Farming of Bones, about this, and Junot Díaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao also discusses it. Another Dominican leader, Dr. Joaquin Balaguer, published a horrific book blaming the Dominican Republic's problems on Haiti. It is one of the all-time worst racist screeds out.
This is the country Sammy Sosa, who, as a kid, was a poor shoe-shine boy, from the Dominican city that is known for having perhaps the "blackest" population in the country (and also produces many of the country's best baseball players, alongside Santo Domingo), San Pedro de Macorís, comes from. DR even has a name for people trying to marry whiter/light-skinned people to "improve themselves": "mejorar la raza" (Improve the race). Proud self-affirming black people in the DR do exist, but they have to deal with a very powerful and longstanding historical discourse against blackness, black people, and African ancestry.
But this sort of racial self-hatred, problem with blackness and dark skin, and desire to be whiter, isn't just confined to the Dominican Republic. It can be found all over the globe, as the link to the article in India shows, or as anyone living in the US will encounter on any given day all over this country. Michael Jackson was only the most high-profile example.
Thank you, Fantomas, for such an informative, interesting and provocative post. And for giving me two books to check out from the library.
An impressed SFD
An impressed SFD
QUOTE(SFDutch @ Dec 16 2009, 01:36 AM)
Thank you, Fantomas, for such an informative, interesting and provocative post. And for giving me two books to check out from the library.
An impressed SFD
My pleasure SFDutch, and *any time* I can turn anyone on to the work of writers like Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tao Lin, and some of the other very talented younger writers out there, I'm glad.
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