The product evens out your skintone, NOT LIGHTEN. If you’re born extremely dark, then there’s not much the product can do. Most of us are born fairer than we are now (because of the sun exposure and radiation). It brightens you to that lighter shade you originally were but not necessarily super fair. I feel that it’s stupid that there’s people out there critisizing this product because it’s consumers "want to be fairer than they really are". If you have olive skin like me, you’d understand that when you have acne scars, it gets worst if you get in the sun because the melanin causes the scars to get darker such that it becomes way more obvious than scars on fair-skinned girls. And I don’t get sunburnt but I get darker such that my collar and face and two different shades because of my everday collared clothes. (sucks if you have to wear a strapless dress for events) So I’m thankful that this product works to EVEN OUT MY SKINTONE/with my body.
Plus, I didn’t buy it because I watched the racist advertisement. My cousins used it and personally recommended it because it tamed acne (since it deals with oily skin well). Not everyone uses it to get fair. And to those who are already fair, you have no right to tell us we should just love ourselves and don’t buy the product. The society is very prejudiced and right now, there’s not much to do but try to look good so that you get what you want in life. Go read statistics. There’s such things as employers offering jobs to good looking people who are of average- education than weirdos who are 1st class honor graduates. That’s why makeup was invented. F&L cream is just as helpful. Thank you.