Comfortable in My Own Skin
My love-hate relationship with my melanin as an Asian American woman
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7 min readMay 27, 2021
Last year, I made the decision to stop using skin care products for whitening purposes. After a couple of months, my complexion grew the tiniest bit darker, back to the natural shade I had been born with. The products I had been purchasing from the Korean beauty supply store had never altered my…