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Good Old Bleach As a teenager, you probably associate bleach with cleaning and chores. These days, bleach seems to be popular in a variety of ways. If you look around in the halls of Jarvis, you're bound to find several students who have bleached their hair. Bleaching hair is common and relatively harmless. But there is another place some people use bleach: on the face. In our modern society, it seems that a large number …

…are bombarded with ads that show how the ideal person should appear. Not only do teen models appear extremely thin but also those with darker tones literally do not exist in magazines. Furthermore, even in magazines targeted at black people such as Essence and Ebony, the ideal black person is portrayed with fair skin. It is truly ironic what people are willing to do in order to fit into this image of the "ideal person".