Tshegofatso was born black and was tired of being neglected at school because of her colour and becoming a victim of hatred, this disadvantaged her alot in her academic life.Tshego repeated grades because of this issue she had about hatred, people thought she is not a South African so they oppressed her.She went to the police to complain yet her voice wasn't heard, this pushed her to the edge of her happiness and she was 18 years in Grade 10.She thought going with her ID might be safe to safe her from hatred, few days later when she was watching tv she saw an advert about face bleaching and new products on how to improve your beauty skin then she took a thought for a second because she likes to keep things her African way but this time she had no choice but to do what she saw on tv for her to fit in her society, therefore she went to buy the products and bleach her skin, after bleaching she had faith because weeks later after she had bleached her skin and has started to use beautifying products, things start to change, people no longer neglect her, no longer treat her unfairly because of her beauty and she has started to live a happy life, a life of an African, she even got a boyfriend and best friends, lonely past of her life has gone because of bleaching and now she's beautiful an irresistible. Two years down the line Tshego is in matric and has already seen more beds of different rooms in her life because of her beauty that she created by herself, lucky enough she passed matric with flying colours and went to TUT to feather her studies, when she arrives there she performed so well and she also won Miss TUT 2017 as her other achievement but unfortunately Tshego bumped into a bad company that corrupts a good character then dumped her high school boyfriends for a guy with "Vrrr Phaa!", after few weeks when she was thinking that her life goes as planned she came across her old photo on facebook being exposed and her high school boyfriends bad mouthing her on that post, that scared her a little but a little later when she went to the cafeteria to buy something to eat she heard people talking about that post, she felt sorry for herself and said "I'll be strong" but when she went into her room her varsity mates came chanting in her back saying "we want our crown, fake yellow bone!" Tshego increased her momentum and ran into her room, when she got into her room she tried to call the security but a single guard couldn't control the crowd then they threw stones in her room while chanting but fortunate enough TUT rescue team came to rescue Tshego with teargas and rubber bullets because the crowd were out of control. Since that day Tshego became a varsity drop out and lost hope in her beauty and went to smoke nyaope to relieve stress but she had too much and became an addict, few weeks later she developed a phobia for water and was given names such as "Nyaopes","Fake identity" and ect. Tshego became all this because of artificial beauty so for you to safe your self say no to artificial beauty.
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Artificial Beauty
Short StoryThis story shows the regrets of escaping your natural look to suite peoples need..