Is your skin the color of caramel or cream? Do you care a lot about looking tanned and healthy‚ or white and clean? Let’s forget the cliché that beauty is skin deep. In reality‚ regardless of our age or sex‚ humans love to judge people by their skin color. Two thousand years ago‚ Greek and Roman women used lead paint and chalk to lighten their skin. In Asia‚ women swallowed ground pearls to achieve the same effect. Right now‚ whitening products line beauty shelves‚ and advertisements bombard us with
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Skin Bleaching and Global White Supremacy: By Way of Introduction Yaba Amgborale Blay‚ PhD Lafayette College Co-editor of this Special Issue of the Journal of Pan African Studies‚ Yaba Amgborale Blay (blayya@lafayette.edu) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College where she also teaches courses in Women ’s & Gender Studies. Her research interests include African cultural aesthetics and aesthetic practices‚ the politics of embodiment and Black identities‚ transnational
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If you don’t find over-the-counter moisturisers effective‚ take the ’kitchen way’ to good skin. Dig into your food shelf‚ or make a run to the grocer’s - the secrets to a glowing complexion can be homemade and inexpensive... Add 4-5 drops of jojoba oil with an equal amount of coconut oil and rose water. Apply after washing your face‚ or bathing. This moisturiser not only provides intense hydration‚ it also leaves a pleasant‚ lingering fragrance. Mix equal amounts of glycerine and rose water
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a large‚ brown spot on her skin. She has been playing tennis in the sun for several years without sun protection. She reported the discovery to a friend‚ who told her to apply the ABCD rule to determine whether or not she had malignant melanoma. Her friend told her that if her answer was "no" to the questions that were asked by the ABCD rule‚ she had nothing to worry about. What is the ABCD rule and should she ignore the spot if her answers are negative? My Mom had skin cancer‚ so I learned as much
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having exposure to harmful UV rays. On the other hand‚ Asian societies have a strong preference for lighter complexions as tanned skin is a symbol of working class (Sebastion‚ 2002). For example‚ Japanese female favor cute‚ smooth-skinned‚ faired look and slender androgynous men (Hays‚ 2009). Therefore‚ in order to obtain beautiful skin‚ Asian men would prefer purchasing skin lotions‚ whitening agents and anti-aging beauty creams. Hence‚ different products are assigned with different level of priorities
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Sandriga A/P Pakirisamy) Company Director Retro Skincare 2. Executive Summary The Retro Skincare is a new business providing high-quality‚ full service distribution of skincare products specialty in moisturizing skin products and whitening product. Our product supplier is Reuben SkinPro Company. Reuben SkinPro Company is the sole manufacturer of the skincare product and located in Sabah. In particular‚ what really sets up apart is that we are the ONLY full service
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Social Graft manipulation‚ flattery and other corrupt practices used to secure unmerited advantages or gains in social or business politics.If you lived with her you’d know she’s enraged all the time. But as an expert at social graft‚ she’s all smiles and platitudes to the outside world. Corruption In philosophical‚ theological‚ or moral discussions‚ corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government
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1. What are the causes of skin cancer? Exposure to abnormally high frequencies of light can potentially alter the DNA of a cell and turn it cancerous‚ the resulting cancerous cells are known as skin cancer. The most common cause is ultraviolet light emitted by the sun although it has been known to be caused by tanning booths‚ unusually high levels of x-rays‚ exposure to some chemicals and in rare cases the abnormal genes that cause skin cancer can be inherited by children from their parents.
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Kayli Jade Gertsen Skin Evolution Essay Human skin pigmentation is the product of two clines produced by natural selection to adjust levels of constitutive pigmentation to levels of UV radiation (UVR). One cline was generated by high UVR near the equator and led to the evolution of dark‚ photo protective‚ melanin-rich pigmentation. The other was produced by the requirement for UVB photons to sustain cutaneous photosynthesis of vitamin D3 in low-UVB environments‚ and resulted in the evolution of
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Different skin tones in humans are associated with the sun’s UV radiation and geography. UV rays can be used by the human body as a source for Vitamin D‚ which helps make bones stronger by taking in the calcium necessary to create stronger bones. A ton of sun exposure that’s especially strong can be damaging to the human body‚ especially the skin. To solve this problem‚ evolution created a skin tone that was already dark in areas with strong sun exposure to protect the skin from the dangerous rays
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