There is no assumption of "inferiority" about very white skin on white people.

You maybe do not, Keith, realise that before the advent of the foreign holiday as an accessible aspiration, whiteness of skin was much prized in English society. It indicated that the person was not of the peasant class who laboured out of doors and so became tanned. After foreign holidays initially became available, the ability to have one indicated significant disposable income, so being tanned acquired social cachet. Amongst a certain class of person it still indicates a possibly expensive, maybe Caribbean, holiday.   

Tanning is not regarded as socially aspirational in Australia, where the dangers of skin cancer from over-exposure to sun are better realised. Where TOWIE orange comes from I have no idea.

I am not criticising the users of these products (other than for folly). They are victims of the racist standard applied by black people amongst themselves. Dencia however is Nigerian-Cameroonian and is complicit in the racist standards applied in the countries of her immediate forbears. A quisling.

I note the assertions about film casting, but I would have thought that in the eyes of most white people, the distinction is binary. In that view one is white, or one is not. In this view mixed race people are classified as "black" - much as in apartheid or slavery era America. Last year I spent a lot of time with a young woman who told me of the way she was a mere 30 years ago regarded as "the only nigger in Crayford" (her words) whereas she was mixed race, relatively pale-skinned, and also of relatively English cast of feature.

The view that a paler black is better than a blacker black seems to me to be a fetish amongst those who are, in binary terms, "black". I have only fairly recently been personally alerted to it, but have been told a number of stories, by pan-Afrikan people, about the presentational value attached to being paler skinned. Indeed one person whom I suggested might like to take the issue up with some political connections of hers declined mainly on the ground that she would be seen as a bitter old dark-skinned woman.

I also note those who have so far on this thread sought to justify the concept of a whitening cream. And I didn't say it was only women who suffer from the promotion of this colour-based self-loathing amongst "blacks". Indeed Michael Jackson and his skin-lightening and facial surgery was in my mind as a victim: but he did not make money out of oppressing and undermining other "blacks" based on the colour of their skin.   

It seems perhaps to be a pity that there are so few 'catters of colour to put the matter in perspective