do people still get darker even after a sunburn?
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You will progressively get darker and darker as your skin is damaged more and more by sunburn. Use sunscreen - the sun will make you wrinkled as you grow older and will make your skin like shoe leather eventually if you keep damaging it.
171294
A suntan is not an indicator of good health. Some physicians consider the skin's tanning a response to injury because it appears after the sun's UV rays have killed some cells and damaged others.\n\nNot everyone burns or tans in the same manner. There are ways to classify different skin types:\n\nA: Whether individuals burn or tan depends on a number of factors, including their skin type, the time of year, and the amount of sun exposure they have received recently. \n\nThe skin's susceptibility to burning can be classified on a five-point scale as outlined in the following table:\n\nSkin Type Tanning and Sunburning History\n1] Always burns, never tans, sensitive to sun exposure\n2] Burns easily, tans minimally\n3] Burns moderately, tans gradually to light brown\n4] Burns minimally, always tans well to moderately brown\n5] Rarely burns, tans profusely to dark\n6] Never burns, deeply pigmented, least sensitive\n\nThough everyone is at risk for damage as a result of excessive sun exposure, people with skin types I and II are at the highest risk.\n\nP.S. Thanks for answering me! I am really glad I found someone to know Frederic de La Taille! I miss him and I have no idea how can I find this guy...\nAnyways, even talking about him would be a joy!\n \nDid you meet him long time ago? Please write me, if you want at laurasalut@yahoo.co.uk
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Since it is believed that people are originally from Africa, dark colored skin would have been the norm.  However, as people migrated north they weren't getting as much sun because they had to cover up to keep warm.  However, black people who get very little sun develope vitamin D deficiency because your body requires sunlight to make the last step of the synthesis go.  So, their skin needed to let more light in and it was beneficial to them to evolve lighter colored skin.  \nHave you noticed (part of it is interbreeding with white people, of course) that American blacks, who have been in the US about 200 years, are not nearly as dark black as native Africans anymore?
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I think you are talking about melasma which is a darkening of the skin, usually seen in women.  It is often related to female hormones either in the birth control pill or in pregnancy.  There are a few medicines you can put on your skin for them but melasma gets better in a few months after the hormones levels come down.  I would use a sun block and a hat during the hot part of the day. Hope that helps!  Good luck!
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Ok since you are sorta dark anyway and you work outside i would prob recommend that you def use some type of sunscreen with 30spf. This will block out all the UV rays. If you can find a good one that blocks out all the UVA and UVB rays you will be much better off. Since your skin is already dark it is pretty hard to lighten it up but you can scrub yourself to death in the shower and that will help take some of the dead skin off that you got from your sun exposure. Dark skin isn't bad..might not be the greatest for your health if it is cause you were out in the sun. Good luck and I hope this helps you.
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How long really depends on your skin color.  Ask the staff at the tanning salon for thier opinion.  For example, I am very fair skinned, so I don't go for more than 10 mins (but I don't go very often).  The beds only go for a maximum of 20 mins, because even if you are very dark, it is not safe to go in longer than that.\n\nIt is best to go only once every other day or less!  It's really not safe to go at all, but if you're gonna go, go every other day or less.\n\nThe people at the tanning salon I used to go to said if you are fair-skinned, start out at 7 mins.  Then, every other time you come back (if you're going regularly), add 1 or 2 mins.  Use your judgement on that one, if you got burned the last time, don't add more, you'll get burned again.\n\nSo in other words, if you started on the 1st of the month, you'd go \nApril 1- 7 mins\nApril 3- 7 mins.\nApril 5- 8 or 9 mins\nApril 7- 8 or 9 mins\nApril 9- 10 mins\n\nUnless you get burned-- then don't go until it is fully healed!
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Yes it's possible\ni've heard it b4 two years\ni sorry 4 u as i can't explain it \nsearch 4 a good website\nTHE pigmentation doesn't depend on the sun rays \nall that's built - up b4 birth\njust there wud be a slight difference after exposure to sunlight
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its something in the genes.\nwhen the skin is bombarded with UV rays it has a reaction in the cells that cause it to create the pigment that makes you tan and prevents burning, this is all as a protection. but with some people the cells aren't as sensitive as they should be, which causes people with fair skin that burn very easily or people who don't seem to tan at all.\nIn the case of albinos, they have no pigments whatsoever and can burn quite easily if exposed to the sun for too long, they do stand a higher chance of getting cancer if they have repeated exposure to the sun. this is why albino's choose to live in a temperate climates, like England, where it's not always sunny every day and some go out only at night in the summer, the invention of the 24 hour supermarket was a blessing for them. Albino's though are quite rare.
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The sun damages your skin every time you are out in it.  Suntanning is NEVER healthy.  Even if you are naturally darker-skinned, you will still have wrinkles and unhealthy skin and it's still possible for you to get skin cancer.\nAlways wear sunscreen or sunblock, at least SPF 15.\nAnd, tanning beds are even worse than the sun--they increase the amount of bad light rays that hit your skin.
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No, not at all, a lot of people have lighter patches on their skin. My sister even has it in her hair, she's got dark brown hair within the middle a blond patch. It's called pigment-vlek in dutch, but I don't know in English.\n\nDo not take pills, as some people recommend you, it's totally normal!!!!
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None, stretch marks are scars, they are there for life. When they first appear they may be dark in color, but they'll lighten up over time. There are expensive creams that claim to reduce the appearance of them, but you will never get rid of them.
387643
No... Being dark is attractive, and people of color don't have to deal with skin cancer, or tanning booths. So let's just consider them lucky. They're not trying to "copy" anyone, it's just always been perceived as "exotic" and "sexy" to be dark.
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I see what you're saying.  I've thought the same thing.  If you have light skin, you'll stay cooler in the hot climate than if you had darker skin, so why would you want to get your skin darker if you'd only feel hotter the darker you got?  Right? \n\nTherefore if evolution were really working like it should, people who live up in colder climates like Norway and Sweden would have dark skin to absorb the most of the sun's rays and stay warmer and the people down in Africa would have lighter skin to repel most of sun's rays to keep them cooler.\n\nSeems like that would make sense to me.
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NO\n\nBlood is red no matter how much oxygen is in it, it just changes to a different shade
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We all have different amounts of melanin in our skin. If we have less, our skin is lighter. If we have more, our skin is darker.
825015
My long term medication says that too, and I too am pale, the medicine made me extra-sensitive to sun and i got a burn in august and I still have the tan from it on the tops of my legs and my chest.\nSo my advice is dont go atall, or if you do only go for a litte bit.
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What the statistics don't mention are the skin types that these skin cancer victims have. And in most cases, the people with skin cancer are, not surprisingly, have fair skin. Look at all the othere countries in the same latitudes as Australia and you will find the native people have dark skin. That skin type is suited to the tropics.