To Bleach or Not to Bleach

So this week i found out a bit more background info on this whole bleaching thing.
A pink lady and a normal black lady steps unto our bus to get their blood tested. Our poor bus driver could not hold in his shock and proceeds to ask the lady (pink) if she never realised that she was already"brown". To this she releases the most raucous laughter and says " A whappen to 'im, yuh lucky mi did blacker dan everyone inna da bus ya".
Still he pushes the subject, "So hol' on, u tink u look good now? Cause i can tell u, yu don't"
Again she just laughs, "A nuff man nuh like di bleaching ting still, but mi like di colour an' is not like seh mi do it all di while"
Now i am intrigued. So i ask her what she meant by that, because i thought it was something continuous. She kindly informed me that now that she is at a "higher" complexion, she just uses it for certain special occasions such as the "Tap dance weh a come up. One tap a di tap dance a nex' week an' u haffi brown cause dat is di only way di videolight a go pick u up"
Her friend chastises her and calls her silly but she does not care. It is now her turn to give a sample and the phlebotomist turns to me and says "go ahead, i'm sure u can see her vein"
So i start prepping her and wiping the area with alcohol. Amazed, she says to me, "yu a go wipe off all a di cream weh me jus put on? A wha do u?"
She finally allows me to continue and afterwards realises that she is bleeding more than her friend. Here the bus driver pops up to tell her it is because she has no skin left, all her layers are gone. He is right about the layers. Her skin is like stretched saran wrap over her skin, it is sad. But she loves it.
You can tell she was pretty but now she is hot and no one can tell her otherwise!

She then stays in the bus to tell us some more. We notice she has on socks and ask her why they wear it. I thought it was just because they try to cover up from the sun, but it is actually because they sweat more after bleaching and then the sweating washes away the cream which defeats the whole purpose. The socks and stuff actually keeps them intact( thats how i prefer to think of it because they look like they will soon fall apart). The driver points out to her the stretch mark looking things on her arms as a result of the cream, but she doesn't mind because she knows it is not stretchmarks cause she "tight". Then being completely on a roll now, the driver asks one more question. "So everywhere thin out like ur arms?" She quickly informs him that you don't rub certain places as hard as others but u just can't look like a monkey (too late) so ur face has to be the same colour as ur arms. O K thanks, i'll keep that in mind.
This job is...informative.