Creating Beauty From Within
Skin Type, How it Looks and Behaves
Your Skin Type
The type of skin you have determines both how your skin feels and how it behaves. The following table will give you an indication of your skin type and how it looks and behaves.
|
Skin Type |
How it looks |
how it behaves |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Celtic Fine pored, pale to very fair, red hair, possibly freckled. |
High risk for skin cancers, will not tan, will freckle. Aging risk is very high. |
| 2 |
Peaches and Cream Fair, fine pored. |
Moderately high risk for skin cancer, minimal tan, aging and wrinkle risk high. |
| 3 |
Olive Mid-European, Mediterranean, some Scandinavian. |
Low risk of skin cancer, high risk brown patches, wrinkle risk moderate. |
| 4 |
Light Asian/Indian Hispanic, Asian, Southern Mediterranean |
Hispanic and Asian and the darker Mediterranean types; hair and eyes almost always brown. |
| 5 |
Far Eastern Some Asian-Indian, Polynesian |
Very low risk of skin cancer, pigment of brown patches high, wrinkle risk low. |
| 6 |
Light Black African, African-American, West Indian |
Very low risk of skin cancer, pigment of brown patches high, wrinkle risk low. |
| 7 |
Deep Black Central African, some Afro-Caribbean, Australian Aborigine |
Extremely low risk of skin cancer, resistant to sun damage, wrinkle risk low. |
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