A woman's skin has turned a bizarre blue-brown color after using skin-lightening cream. This condition, known as exogenous ochronosis, had been affecting the 55-year-old patient for a year before she ...

Dark, light or in between, Black women are beautiful in every shade! Here’s a rundown of some of our favorite beautiful brown sisters! With Dark Girls sparking a heated conversation about beauty in ...

While the beauty industry touts its strides in inclusivity, the reality for many Kenyan women with 'chocolate' or 'ebony' skin tones remains starkly different. For a long time, the market has been ...

Skin lightening, also called whitening or bleaching, is a multibillion-dollar industry with products that can damage the skin and that, researchers say, promote a dangerous message about beauty and ...

When “Brown Skin Girl” was released last year, it became a worldwide phenomenon. Challenges were created, South Asian women wanted in and a true conversation was started about the beauty of darker ...

As the skin-care industry expands, learning how to properly treat melanated skin is still too often an afterthought. Monique Diaz Doolin learned this the hard way after receiving broadband light (BBL) ...

Tina Knowles won’t let anyone break Beyoncé’s soul. On Tuesday, she fiercely came to her daughter’s defense after critics accused the artist of lightening her skin. The Destiny’s Child costume ...

The origin of ancient ancestors and how they spread across the world was of great interest to experts who traced the origin story. In one such attempt, researchers at the University of Ferrara in ...