She’s beautiful and runs a successful make-up artistry business with a large followership on social media
Anyone who has ever come across a social media page of Teniola Aisha Kashaam aka Tennycoco can attest that the award-winning make-up artist is not only beautiful but is also blessed with what we think is a flawless skin tone. Her chocolate toned skin seems to dazzle and attract and she seems to exude confidence. But the make-up artist has just revealed that she hasn’t always been at peace with her dark skin tone.
Writing under a ‘before and after’ photograph in a post she captions “My road to melanin”, Tennycoco revealed that she started “bleaching” her skin at the age of nineteen under the mistaken notion that a whiter skin was “more attractive.” She wrote that she became addicted to skin lightening by the age of twenty and that it was not until she was approaching age twenty-five did she say to herself, stop, maybe you’ve wrong all these years. And that she came to the realisation that there was nothing wrong with having a dark skin and that ‘black is beautiful!”
She advocated for followers to love their skin and wondered what the longterm effect on her own health would have been had she persisted in skin bleaching. She also promises to reach out to those who wanted tips to overcoming bleaching addiction and wanted to know how she accomplished that.
See her full post
“My Road to Melanin
I get a lot of messages asking me, how I was able to transition my skin back… I will be sharing all the tips soon enough.
“Thank you to everyone who helped me get through this…… the Amount of support I have received is enormous… Thank you.
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