It only makes it lighter AND DARKER in some places. I don’t understand why they don’t want to use the excuse ‘It’s shadowing’ or dumb stuff like that. I am black, and I take offence from the fact that people think that ‘You have to be white and have straight hair to be normal/pretty.’ NOW FIVE YEAR OLDS THINK THIS IS TRUE. To be honest, I was one of those five year olds… even though I have curly hair and black skin and I am from Africa.