If you’re a brown babe, please read this: How south asian skin ages: (share with with a brown bestie or your mom 🫶🏽🤎) South Asian skin contains more melanin which gives it its dusky color. Melanosomes are granules within skin cells that store melanin, which gives your skin its pigment. Darker skin has more melanin. Lighter skin has less. But melanin isn’t just for show. It absorbs and scatters light, protecting you from ultraviolet rays. Of course, skin types and tones vary even within the same ethnicity, but if a darker-skinned African-American and a lighter-skinned Caucasian spent the same amount of time in the sun, the Caucasian is less protected and their collagen and elastin degenerates sooner than would the African-American. But the extra melanin in African-American skin renders it more vulnerable to hyperpigmentation. This is why the first signs of aging in South Asian skin are dark sports and hyperpigmentation. Where as in Caucasian skin, with the loss of collagen, these signs are wrinkles and loss of elasticity. What does this mean for South Asians and how can we remedy this? • Religiously apply and re-apply sunscreen to prevent new dark spots. • medical grade skincare products to normalize pigment distribution and even out skin tone. • Using active ingredients like Retinoids, Kojic acid, Azelaic Acid, Glycolic Acid, Alpha Arbuten, Trinexamic Acid to even out skin tone and lighten dark spots • Gentle chemical peels, intense pulsed light, micro needling and laser treatments #skintoks #skincaretipsandtricks #acneproneskinfacts #acneproneskintips #acneproneskincare #skincarewithdiya #southasianskincare #southasiantiktok #hyperpigmentationtreatment #hyperpigmentationskin #melaninbaddies #melanintok #melaninqueen #melanin #sundamagetips #sundamagedskin #skinpigmentation #brownskinproblems #southeastasianskin #asianskinsecrets