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You Can Change the Appearance of Your Total-Body Complexion To Reflect Radiant Health and Tone Safely and Effectively .......... Have you tried unsuccessfully in the past to lighten problem skin areas with harsh bleaching products or expensive, yet ineffective skin care programs? Are you struggling with issues such as age spots, hyperpigmentation, uneven skin tone, discoloration caused by sun exposure or scarring and looking for a safe, effective way to get back your skin s healthy glow? There s good news: Now you can transform your skin and maintain a clear, vibrant complexion by eating your way to fantastic clear skin!.......... In this book, you will discover the AMAZING methods to:.......... ·..... Restore a healthy glow to dull, sun-damaged skin ·..... Reduce visible age spots and create a more youthful appearance ·..... Resolve uneven skin tone and hyperpigmentation ·..... Lighten total body complexion ·..... Bring natural color back to ashen skin on elbows and knees ·..... Minimize yellow skin tones ·..... Heal and clear blemishes and lighten dark acne scars
Customer Reviews
Not enough scientific evidence.
What she is saying here maybe worth looking into. However, there is not enough scientific evidence to support the claims so far. I've tried monobenzone and it works at lifting the pigment, but it is unnatural looking.
I purchased some of Ms. Ho's products, the lightening shake and pills. She is a little too expensive for me. She has very attractive black packaging but her shake came with only a few months before expiration which I was put off that maybe she is not selling much of this stuff or not very many ppl have heard about it, but at any rate, I need longer expiration date than just about 3 months especially for a powder shake. Her pills have high levels of synthetic vitamins.
I think you can get really good results with skin by limiting fried foods and eating a more raw fruit, vegetable diet with steam or baked fish, chicken and limit red meats. Taking natural vitamin c helps as well.
Though she is godawfully expensive, I am tempted to purchase her shake again because I liked the taste of it mixed with milk and request from her company to not send out the oldest can of it that expires in a few months.
BTW Miss Ho, was never really dark. She has always had white skin, just with some darker undertones to it, so it is much easier for her to lighten her skin versus someone who was born dark.
2009-06-16
| Always in search of good books | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 2
Why?
Despite the report of fine scientific research, I am troubled over the fact that the writer does not realize that people with more melanin than others which are going to be browner than those with very little, as in her case. People who are short are not going to be very tall. Aside from surgery or serious chemicals/medication, most of us know that we are pretty much stuck with our round bottoms, thin noses, curly hair, pointy or square chins. I am a very light skinned African-American woman who stumbled upon this book in the course of searching for beauty treatments to even out my golden colored skin. My brother is caramel brown, resembling Jimi Hendrix and my sister is light, light brown with freckles resembling news reporter Sue Simmons. None of us look alike, but you can not miss that we are siblings. My point is that having grown up non-white in the US, traveled abroad and lived in urban, suburban and rural communities, I am all to aware of racism, but never once wanted to be lighter. It would have been nice if I had dimples, a gap tooth (considered attractive in my community), or if my kinky curly hair was a little longer. I have had men from every culture make serious advances towards me. I feel that it was because I was a pretty lady, who could cooks, dance, listen attentivel, with a nice figure and a good sense of self, community, in good health and a job. What is going to happen to those of you who get lighter and your lives don't change significantly? Will you dye your hair blonde and get blue contact lenses? The Creator knew exactly what He was doing making us all different. Does a rose smell any less sweeter, regardless as to the color it prouduces?
2009-05-08
| Lady | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2
Interesting
I have gone through this book and have found it to be quite interesting. I think that her claims are genuine and sincere despite some questionable proof. I have not yet tried her products but I do know from personal experience that diet does effect the skin. The book is great in revealing the monotonous dribble about skin color and will explain things in way not previously thought of. I only wish Thienna Ho would have provided more pictures and more evidence of her findings to prove her claim.
2009-05-08
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color
Did you every wonder about the following?
Why do men tend to have darker skin than women? Why do the poorest countries have the darkest people? Why do some African American celebrities seem to get lighter over time? Why do I have a tan even when I do not go out in the sun?
If so, Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color is a must read for you.
Thienna was born in Vietnam where white skin is treasured as a characteristic of beauty. Her mother, sister and brothers had a light complexion but she did not. This caused Thienna much distress.
By the time Thienna was twelve years old, her family moved to San Francisco. She tried several things to lighten her skin but it only darkened it. Thienna came to the conclusion that scientific research did not have the answer to her questions.
Since Thienna is a nutritionist, she started her quest by investigating how nutrition influences skin color. She was able to make many connections between what people eat and their skin color. As the author continued her research and experimentation, her skin color lightened. It is important to point out that she did not use any toxic or botanically based chemicals, no drugs and no steroids.
The author gives us some very interesting facts regarding Von Luschan's Chromatic Scale, the first tool used to classify skin color.
Thienna points out that melanin is the basic building block of your skin pigment; however, its characteristics make it very difficult to study.
The author states that one of the most important determinants of skin color is the amount of sulfur in the skin. If you change the amount of sulfur in the pigment producing layers of your skin, you can change the skin color.
Another factor in determining skin color is the environment.
Thienna gives the reader detailed information on selecting a diet that is good for the skin and tells us about foods and drugs we should not even touch.
Unlocking the Mystery to Skin Color is an intriguing and interesting book. It is very obvious that the author has done much research in order to be able to write this book. This book is easy to understand and gives the reader a thorough history on skin color. Throughout the book there are sections called "Warning" where the author advises the reader on what they should not do. There are several photographs, charts and lists to help the reader understand the points the author is making. The reader will also find a lists of "Dos and Don'ts" in order to have fantastic skin. Thienna backs up her research with several before and after photos of people who have been able to lighten their skin by using her method. If you are interested in changing your skin color or want more information about restoring damaged skin, this is the book for you. The author has done a thorough job in writing this book and if you ever had any questions regarding skin color, I'm sure you will find the answers here. As the author states, skin color is not fixed. Thienna gives the reader plenty to think about. I know it made me do a lot of thinking as I read this book. Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color is highly recommended.
2008-02-05
| bestsellersworld.com (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5
The guide to natural way of lightening your skin color
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (2/08)
The first time I truly and really became aware of importance and influence of skin color was when I moved to USA 8 years ago. Growing up in Europe skin color just wasn't an issue, or at least not one that would merit more than a second's pause when one met somebody of a different race. I have to admit I never gave it much thought, and even after reading Thiênna Ho's book, I found myself quite surprised that my home country ranks among those with the absolute lightest people on the planet. Skin color was not and still is not anything that defines a person in my eyes, but unfortunately I had to learn that in certain parts of the world it truly matters enormously. Whether we like to admit it or not, life in the USA is easier if you happen to be lighter skinned. I am not going to moralize nor preach about this issue; suffice to say that I do understand why a person would want to lighten her or his skin if they could do it safely.
Thiênna Ho's "Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color" carries a long subtitle, namely "The Strictly Natural Way to Dramatically Lighten Your Skin Color Through Diet and Lifestyle." While the cover photos failed to convince me that the color change in Thiênna Ho's own case was quite this dramatic, I see absolutely nothing wrong with the diet and lifestyle changes that she recommends. All of us would benefit from eating smarter, moving more, eliminating toxins and stress from our life, taking nice long baths and indulging in massages - which are some of her tips.
It is obvious that Thiênna Ho performed an outstanding amount of research while developing her method and writing her book. Just a glance through the over 40 pages of endnotes shows the great number and diversity of sources used in writing "Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color." The book is actually quite interesting reading for the general public as well, dealing with diverse topics such as the great variety of the human skin colors, melanin, influence of sulfur on the skin color, the role of the environment as well as several chapters on nutrition and lifestyle. The surprisingly easy to read and understand style contributes to the feeling that this book should not be intimidating to anybody - it is written in such a way that a general reader can get enough useful information; and the more advanced or a professional one will find another nearly 100 pages of data, tables and sources in the appendices.
Regardless of whether you pick up "Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color" because you truly want to lighten your complexion or out of sheer curiosity, I am certain that you will learn a lot of both useful tips and fascinating trivia about an attribute that we all posses and which oftentimes defines us - even when it should not.
2008-02-04
| www.readerviews.com (Austin, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4
Years of unprotected sun exposure causes brown spots – unattractive brown blotches of varying shades and sizes – that betray a person's age.
Risk of Alzheimer's linked to diet high in methionine, an amino acid latest A brain sample taken from mice used in the study shows dark spots consistent with amyloid plaque. According to the Temple University December 15th,
