Michelle Phan

Growing up, before my mom would cook our rice, she would rinse the rice out and pour it out three times. And after the fourth pour, she'd pour it into a little bowl, and she'd rinse her face with that. It's known to help whiten the skin and nourish it because essentially inside the water you have all the essential nutrients from the rice.

American Businesswoman

Jill Wagner

I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth. I don't believe in going to the dentist and paying for whitening.

American Actress

Victor Hugo

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

French Author

Chrissy Teigen

It's funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon 'Real Housewives' white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I'm like, 'They can be that white,' and he's like, 'Veneers can be that white.

American Model

Loren Eiseley

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

American Scientist

Sara Teasdale

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

American Author

Helena Bonham Carter

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

British Actress

Anthea Butler

Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

American Educator

Ira Gershwin

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

American Musician

Darcey Bussell

I dye my hair, and I use teeth whitening strips. Unless I burnt myself or damaged my skin, I wouldn't have cosmetic surgery.

English Dancer

Used when something's color actually becomes lighter, often through a chemical or physical process.

Physical change

The action of whitening something may be gradual and not immediate.

Gradual process

Refers to natural processes, like daylight causing colors to fade.

Natural whitening

Indicates a loss of color due to sudden emotions, not physical illness.

Emotional reaction

Often used to describe someone showing visible signs of fear or shock.

Sign of distress

Applied to describe an action aimed at restoring or achieving purity or cleanness.

Cleaning action

Emphasizes the desire to make something appear more attractive by cleaning it until it's white or bright.

Aesthetic purpose

Focuses on returning something to its original state or appearance by making it white again.

Restoring appearance

 So he showed me some pictures of little cheeks with little black dots -- not very informative. I said, "What happens when I grow older and my hair becomes white? What would happen then?" "Oh, don't worry about it," he said. "We have lasers; we can whiten it out."

Beware conflicts of...

 Australia in an attempt to whiten Australia removed selected Aboriginal children from a large number of families and sent them to boarding schools many never returned this photograph is all that remains

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