Facial looks and bodies of celebrities have influenced their fans or admirers to desire to look or have skin and bodies like theirs; hence the need to bleach or to take enhancement products. An example is Nicki Minaj, a hip-hop rapper most loved by young women, they are now using different products to look light. Women have been made to believe that light-skinned girls are the ones who are beautiful; hence those who are dark-skinned now bleach their skin, and those who are not curvy use products to enhance their body shapes.
Teaching women in general to have self-love and appreciation can help limit the peer pressure of having to look a certain way so that people may consider them attractive.
People undergo these procedures and unrealistic body standards to look good to please the opposite gender. It is essential to keep empowering women to have self-confidence and love themselves the way they do instead of succumbing to social media standards. This is because some people end up having a hip or skin conditions.