What is pigmentation?
An individual’s skin colour is based on genetics and the actual colour of the skin is affected by many things, but the most important is melanin. Melanin is the pigment that gives the skin colour and it is produced in the skin by cells called melanocytes through a process called melano genesis. In darker skin the melanocyte is producing more melanin resulting in a darker skin.
You may know pigmentation as freckles, age spots, liver spots, uneven skin tone and scarring. Melanin is the pigment that gives our skin colour. In darker skin the melanocyte is producing more melanin resulting in a darker skin.
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