2008. Not long after my wife and I met - I loved her skin colour and still do: Taken with a Fujifilm FinePix F50fd "point and shoot".
My Mrs recently returned from a trip to Cebu, to attend the Sinulog and visit her elderly parents, with an enormous amount of skin lightening stuff... She started putting it on her face and neck, against my words of caution about the SLS (Sodium lauryl sulfate) contained in the products. Day or so after, her skin started flaking as if she had been sleeping on a sunbed, compounded by itching... Tried again after a couple of days, same result.. I put the rest in the bin........... Her skin complexion has always been flawless and I always commented on that.
no i stopped my Mrs buying stuff off the internet, not approved in this country. Nothing wrong with her complexion, in fact she is the lightest in her family.