I believe that I know how Michael Jackson turned into a white man.
I worked as a moderator and a writer for two years on an ‘acne’ site on the Internet, and I have done research on skin conditions/treatments for over ten years. I know a little about how our skin works, and what different products do to our skin and why.
Michael Jackson often talked about how he had a chronic acne condition as a young teen, and how the acne scared both his face and his personality. Yet to look at Michael as an adult you could not see a single acne scar on his face. Yet he insisted that he did indeed have deep acne scars on his face as a result of the acne he suffered as a teen.
I am sure that the acne scars Michael Jackson developed on his face were the result of the greasy, oily make up that both stage and TV stars wore back when Michael was a young teen. I remember the makeup that was used back then because I am older than Michael would be if he had lived, and I remember other actors and stage performers who also developed acne from the greasy makeup they had to wear on stage.
Michael Jackson mysteriously turned white while he was still a young man sometime in the mid nineteen eighties. He had been burned while filming a Pepsi commercial, and his transformation started at around this time.
He claimed at the time that his skin losing color was due to a skin condition called Vitilgo . When this happened to him, and the fact that Vitilgo leaves a black person’s skin with a pink tinge to it instead of a white pallor, I don’t believe that Michael Jackson had Vitilgo. I say this because M.J.’s skin was a deathly white color all over, not in patches, and not a pink color as I have seen on other dark skinned individuals who actually had Vitilgo.
Another explanation that has been handed down to the public for his transformation was that he suffered from Lupus. Lupus does have a skin condition associated with it called a Malar rash. Another symptom of Lupus is a loss of body hair, which is called Alopicia. Lupus patients have to avoid the sun the same as a person who has lost the melanin in their skin therefore a Lupus patient always shields themselves from sunlight because sunlight makes the symptoms of Lupus worse.
Normally Vitilgo, which has been the primary reason given to the public for M.J.'s transformation presents itself in patches on the skin NOT as an all over condition. Vitilgo normally takes a long time to cover a large area of the victims skin; the condition does not present itself 'overnight' all over a person's skin as what happened to Michael Jackson when he 'suddenly' turned white in the mid nineteen eighties.
I believe that M.J. underwent a chemical peel on his face sometime around the time he was burned in the Pepsi commercial to remove his acne scars that he often referred to in conversation but were not seen on his face later on as an adult. Within the chemical peel originally developed back in the nineteen seventies to remove acne scars was a chemical called PHENOL.
Phenol completely destroys melanocytes within the skin. Melanocytes are commonly called melanin.
Melanin cells within the skin are the cells that manufacturer and carry our skin color.
The darker our skin is the greater the number of melanocytes we have within our skin. Even light skinned persons have some melanin within their skin. Those creatures including humans that are born completely withOUT melanin within their skin are called Albinos, and their eyes are often pink in color, and their hair is completely without color, and is white. Being an Albino is a condition that affects the complete body not just a part of the body like the skin.
Back in the mid nineteen eighties when Michael Jackson suddenly turned white, there were two methods used to remove acne scars from the face.
Neither method was perfected yet or was desirable.
The heavy dermabrasion method incorporated using a hand held sanding device to sand the patients face after freezing the skin first by spraying it with nitrogen aerosol spray. This method often left the patient with more scars that it removed because doctors using this method back in the nineteen seventies when it was first introduced and later on in the mid nineteen eighties were not skilled enough yet to be doing this type of facial skin surgery. Even today I would not recommend this procedure to anyone for removal of deep acne scars.
The second method that was often used in the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties to remove acne scars was the chemical peel that I mentioned already that contained the chemical called PHENOL. Phenol is a dangerous chemical to apply to the skin because it does completely destroy the melanocytes (melanin) within the skin.
Most skin lighteners that you find in a jar today that are incorporated into a cream don’t destroy melanocytes completely because they contain Hydroquinone, which destroys some of the melanin cells but not all of them. So creams containing Hydroquinone have to be used over and over to maintain a lighter skin. Generally speaking from what I have read Hydroquinone is a ‘safe’ method to lighten the skin. Hydroquinone is commonly prescribed today by doctors/dermatologists in both the United States and in Japan to patients that want to lighten their complexions.
After M.J. healed from his chemical peel he had to use products that lightened his neck, hands, arms etc…to try to even out his skin color. If he did indeed suffer from Vitilgo he may have gone through with the chemical peel to both even out his skin color and get rid of the acne scars that he so often referred to in interviews. It is possible that after undergoing the peel he used products containing Hydroquinone or he may have had Phenol incorporated into a cream base by a Compounding Pharmacists, and then used this cream to completely remove the color producing melanin from his neck, hands and arms.
Without melanin in our skin we cannot go outside into the sun. A person suffering from Lupus cannot go outside into the sun either because sunlight makes Lupus symptoms worsen.
If we go into the sun without melanin in our skin we burn terribly, and skin cancer is more likely to happen at a much younger age because the skin does not have it’s natural defense of color to protect it from the sun’s rays that cause skin cancer.
However Michael lost his melanocytes (melanin) knowing what happens to skin that is not protected by melanin helps to explain WHY we always saw Michael Jackson with a sun-brella in hand whenever we saw him go outside.
Phenol is still used today by some doctors/dermatologists in their chemical peels. The difference today from the nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties is that today doctors caution anyone who has a darker skin tone to stay away from any product that contains Phenol because once melanocytes (skin color) are destroyed you cannot regrow them.
Remember that hydroquinone is Good for whitening the skin to a natural lighter color. and PHENOL is very Bad for anyone to put on their skin at any time because Phenol completely destroys melanin within the skin and turns the skin a deathly white color.
Carol Garnier Dutra
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