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How Skin Getsits Colour
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White skin the lightesthuman skin is without colour pigmentation. A person or other livingcreature without colour pigmentation is called an albino.
Generally a person who isan albino will have a milky, translucent skin, white or colourlesshair, and eyes with a pink or blue iris and deep red pupils. Thisis a rare condition.
Light creamy skin this is a fair skin which may have light creamy or slightly pinkundertones. Persons with this skin type are sometimes referredto as "Nordic". This term pertains to the tall, blond-hairedsubdivision of the Caucasian ethnic stock. These people came mainlyfrom North Western Europe.
Golden skin this skinhas a definite yellow cast if light, and if tan, it has a goldentone. Generally, we think of people with yellow or golden skinas being of the yellow race (Mongoloid) but this is not alwaystrue. Many people have a yellow or golden skin tone.
Pink skin a pink skincan be faintly pink, light, or florid. A florid skin has a ruddycolour (flushed with redness). People from different ethnic groupsmay have red undertones in their skin. North American Indiansgenerally have red undertones in brown or tanned skin.
Tan skin you havenoticed that some people have what can be described as tan skin.However, tan skin can range from light to dark brown.
The undertones of tan skincan be predominantly red or yellow, or the skin can be more clearlybrown.
Olive skin This skincolour is said to resemble the colour of an olive. It is describedas having a dull, yellowish green colour or a somewhat brown complexiontinged with yellow green. Sometimes this greenish undertone isdifficult to detect. Generally the person with olive skin willalso have dark hair.
Brown skin brown skinmay range from light to dark and it may be classified as clearbrown, light, medium, or dark, or with red or yellow undertones.
A fair-skinned person mayget a tan and he or she should select clothing colour to be compatiblewith the undertones of the tan.
Ebony ebony is thename of a wood that is almost black but not jet-black. A darkskin may range from dark olive, dark brown, deep yellowish-brownto deep reddish-brown.
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