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the aging process has a lot to do with the sort of life we have lived and the amount of trauma we have endured.
That's partly true.
02-23-2014, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMoonandStars
You're being silly. Black skin is unique just as their hair. It's darker, thicker, prone to scarring, resistant to sun damage, oilier. Melanin doesn't have anything to do with aging but it does protect against sun damage.
Please read more carefully, I said in regard to other skin factors that have nothing to do with melanin - which give the color of the skin. So my point is not about 'black' or any other color of the skin but in regard to things mentioned like oiliness or thickness, etc.
Please cite the peer reviewed articles that say that Black skin is oilier than a white persons. And I don't mean something like 60% vs 40% because the OP is making a very broad statement about black people, black woman specifically, as if there is something unique about their skin. White people have oily skin and thick skin as well. It is not a unique feature of black skin.
Please read more carefully, I said in regard to other skin factors that have nothing to do with melanin - which give the color of the skin. So my point is not about 'black' or any other color of the skin but in regard to things mentioned like oiliness or thickness, etc.
Please cite the peer reviewed articles that say that Black skin is oilier than a white persons. And I don't mean something like 60% vs 40% because the OP is making a very broad statement about black people, black woman specifically, as if there is something unique about their skin. White people have oily skin and thick skin as well. It is not a unique feature of black skin.
I already read what you wrote and you're being silly and repeating the same thing.
1. Black skin is unique. It's the darkest of all skin, the thickest of all skin, and the most prone to scarring than all skin.
2. On Average black skin is oilier. That's a hard core fact.
3. White people don't have thick skin. 100% of white people have very very thin skin to the point that they almost don't have any or it's too thin for necessary protection.
4. Oily skin and thick skin is a unique feature of black skin. No one thinks white when you say "thick oily" skin.
This is very true. Giving birth does something to a woman's beauty and youthfulness and it's not pretty.
That is just ridiculous.
I think much of this thread is mere opinion and not scientific fact.
As far as myself, I am a white woman and I stay out of the sun, do not smoke or drink. I look more youthful now at 40 than I did in my twenties. How is that possible? Stress. My life was full of stress in my twenties, and not so much now.
I have seen some beautiful women who are mothers and grandmothers, whether they have wrinkles and no matter what color they are. Of course, this is my opinion, and obviously not a scientific fact.
02-23-2014, 03:11 PM
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I already read what you wrote and you're being silly and repeating the same thing.
Where did I say it was not the darkest? And I never mentioned anything about scarring.
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1. Black skin is unique. It's the darkest of all skin, the thickest of all skin, and the most prone to scarring than all skin.
As to thickness - where are the studies that thick skin (I would also like to know the line between thick and thin being used in this study) is a unique feature of black people. This was your first response not that they have the thickest which is now your wording.
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2. On Average black skin is oilier. That's a hard core fact.
I did not say on average - you said unique. On average does not mean anything when someone says that black people age better and one of the reasons is that they have oilier skin. Well even if the average is true there would be millions of white people that don't age worse because of this feature since they to have oily skin. Again what is considered oily and not oily?
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3. White people don't have thick skin. 100% of white people have very very thin skin to the point that they almost don't have any or it's too thin for necessary protection.
Again, I have said nothing in regard to this feature. But since you brought it up - you are sounding as the silly one with statements like this - they almost don't have any skin. Really, white people's skin is so thin that they almost don't have any - I would like to see that study please.
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4. Oily skin and thick skin is a unique feature of black skin. No one thinks white when you say "thick oily" skin.
Does not matter what people think but only the facts. Again you use the word 'unique' in one place and on average in #2 - you can't even be consistent with your terms. And you have yet to even define these things (oily and thick).
Does it really matter at the end of the day?
Some of us have wrinkles, some have crows' feet, men always have laugh lines btw. Give me two days of real work and home stress and the mirror starts having wrinkles. Give me two days of good living and being happy and you cannot tell the time I spent on sail boats, motorcycles or in high mountains.
Please read more carefully, I said in regard to other skin factors that have nothing to do with melanin - which give the color of the skin. So my point is not about 'black' or any other color of the skin but in regard to things mentioned like oiliness or thickness, etc.
Please cite the peer reviewed articles that say that Black skin is oilier than a white persons. And I don't mean something like 60% vs 40% because the OP is making a very broad statement about black people, black woman specifically, as if there is something unique about their skin. White people have oily skin and thick skin as well. It is not a unique feature of black skin.
Yet again with the complete ignorance of what a cite is.
HELLOOOOOO!
This is not rocket science.
I agree with you. You're getting ignorant and uninformed responses from ignorant and uninformed sources. And so it goes, on and on.
I think much of this thread is mere opinion and not scientific fact.
The thread compose of opinion and fact. Black skin is thicker, oilier, more resistant to sun damage, of course darker, more prone to scarring are all facts. Black skin not wrinkling as quickly as pale or light skin is also fact.
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