Lightening skin colour

This may seem strange to many of you but i am an indian girl, and so we actually like to be lighter skinned, unlike everyone else who wants a tan!

Basically i went on holiday and have tanned, and i want to go back to my original skin colour, and unlike most i actually have never lost a tan, i just go darker. Anyway, does anyone know of any natural way of losing a tan that doesn't involve bleaching??

Thanks for the help!

one can 'bleach' ones skin what does this involve?

im not certain, i know you can get lightening solutions that you apply just like moisturiser. i duno bout bleach tho! i stil wouldnt advise it tho!

Haha at the over-sensitive reactions. You wouldn't get responses like this in a tanning thread.

Haha at the over-sensitive reactions. You wouldn't get responses like this in a tanning thread.

Yeah but everyone can tan! You get some sun, your skin gets dark. That's not race specific.

I agree.


I'm ginger (which isn't a race, but it should be). I don't tan at all, whatever you say. The white population make me feel I should try to be darker. What exactly is the difference here? I don't think it has anything to do with colonialism, it's just the classic 'everyone wants what they don't have' thing.

I have a very close friend who is ginger. She burns but it turns into a tan within a few days.

And it is to do with colonialism, why would you want to look white if you'd never seen a white person before?