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Decode Skin Colors Easy As ABC

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Updated: Nov 14, 2021


Dear Fave,

It's no female secret that when you want to buy a nice lipstick you crave for just the perfect shade that compliments your skin color or when you are staring at the changing room mirror in a shopping complex with a cloth around your skin. Read further to know your right skin shade and what your skin type means with relation to worldwide classification.

This right here is an article to help you know your right skin shade or color as the pigments would define soon. What is the right shade ? As a skin and beauty specialist, allow me to break it down to the easiest way you can understand.

If you have ever gotten a laser procedure done before for example laser hair removal procedure then you'll have gotten your skin tested before the procedure is carried out. Or you just wanted to know your skin type or based on a skin specialists request, all the same it all boils down to knowing what your skin result means when you're told you have a certain skin type in Roman numerals or figures. Lets go.....

According to Fitzpatrick scale (Fitzpatrick skin typing test or Fitzpatrick phototyping scale) there are six (VI) skin types. N.B. The Fitzpatrick scale was originally invented to determine the response of the skin to ultraviolet (U.V) light This is the recognized dermatology tool worldwide for determining the skin pigmentation, although there's an older von Luschan scale with thirty-six (36) categories.

Type I (scores 0–6) The type I skin always burns, it never tans (pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles). This skin type if you're thinking of the really pale and white skin types then this is the right stop. Forget winter skin, it's always winter for this skin types no matter what.

Type II (scores 7–13) The type II skin usually burns, tans minimally (white; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes). This skin type can escape the all pale white look abit more than the first since they tan minimally.

Type III (scores 14–20) The type III skin type sometimes burn mildly, tans uniformly (cream white; fair with any hair or eye color). With the first generation UV machines this was the favorite skin color because the skin was light and hair dark mostly minimizing any risks for burns whatsoever.

Type IV (scores 21–27) The skin type IV burns minimally, always tans well (moderate brown). some mulattos and other very light skinned African descendants fall in this category. This is the caramel part of the caramel/chocolatey skin color type usually caramel in a cool weather like winter season and more chocolatey when the temperature increases like in summer.

Type V (scores 28–34) The skin type V in some machines is the last of the skin types, very rarely burns, tans very easily (dark brown). Known as the chocolatey part of the famous Caramel/Chocolatey skin type.

Type VI (scores 35–36) The skin type VI is the charcoal brown skin color of very pigmented mostly Africans descents. Never burns, never tans (deeply pigmented dark brown to darkest brown). With this classification now I hope when you hear phrases like vampire white, caramel/chocolatey skin color I bet it's cheap for you to decipher now. Know a fave in need of this article , be sure to share pls.


LOVE, F.P.

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