Tiwa Savage Reveals Skin Colour Challenges and How She Tried Bleaching

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By Kosiso

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Nigerian afrobeats queen, Tiwa Savage is the most recent cover of Allure Magazine and she disclosed some personal information to the American Beauty Women’s Magazine.

Tiwa recounted the challenges and insecurity she had with her skin colour while growing up which fueled her desire to bleach her skin. She eventually tried bleaching her skin while she was 14 years old by mixing different creams with lemon and was found out by her mum who she said was very disappointed in her.

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The award winning songstress went on to reveal that today, she has scars on her back as a result of her failed bleaching trial.

In her words;

“I actually did try to bleach my skin when I was about, I think 14 or 15 years. Even now I have patches on my back. My mom was cleaning my room and saw the cream that I used to mix with lemons. She wasn’t angry. it was more her disappointment. So I stopped but I was always insecure about being dark”.

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Tiwa went ahead to disclose that when she started her career she didn’t fully embrace herself, she was just trying so hard to break into the industry but now obviously she knows better and is being an example for younger people looking up to her.

“I have a platform and I’m digging more into my responsibility for younger people,” she says. . When I started my career I wasn’t embracing who I was fully yet because I was just trying to crack into the market,” she says. “My first two singles were very American and it wasn’t very African. But then, as time went on, I just started seeing how powerful my platform was and how mothers would say, ‘My little girl really looks up to you.’

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“And I feel like there’s so much pressure now and it’s going to get even worse with social media and there needs to be a balance. There need to be some people that are not too perfect. I know we want to look good. I don’t want to be out there looking jacked up, but I also want to look relatable.” she said.

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