Understanding Skin Tone: Your Guide to Radiant Complexion

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Some Facts Of Skin Tone & Skin Complexion

Skin Tone refers to your base skin colour, While Skin Complexion includes any other colour present in your skin like any Redness, White Spots, Dark Spots or Hyperpigmentation on skin and around eyes. Colour of human skin results from complex mechanism involving genes and also mainly related to melanin (skin pigment) biosynthetic pathway.

According to Dermatological Fitzpatrick Scale, Skin is divided into-

Type I
Type II
Type III

Type IV
Type V
Type VI

Indian/Asian Skin falls between the Type III, IV, V.
Skin tone ranges in variety, from palest hues to darkest browns, but are usually placed into four categories- fair, light, medium or dark.

In India and worldwide, skin colour is linked to discrimination related to racism, ethnicity, religion and also in hiring people for jobs and in marital aspect while selecting bride and groom.
Hence, the skin colour or lighter skin colour becomes very important in our life while being linked to social and psychological well-being.
Skin colour can be measured with Spectro-radiometer and Colorimetry technology used to quantify colour and describe objectively the colour perception.
With rising demand of skin lightening treatments, It is important to emphasis that all these treatments should be under a trained dermatologist and to assure your skin is in safe hands.

What Is Skin Lightening?
Skin lightening is a cosmetic procedure that helps you achieve a lighter skin complexion. It also helps in lightening the dark patches of the skin. The skin lightening procedure works by reducing the production of melanin in the skin. Melanin is produced by cells known as melanocytes and is responsible for protecting our skin from the sun by giving colour to it.

Different Types of Skin Lightening Treatments Available-
Chemical Peels, Meso PRP, Face PRP, Fractional CO2, Q Switch Nd YAG, Microneedling and different laser treatments.

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