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The pigment is called melanin. It makes your skin go brown as a protection to the sun. If your skin has more melanin in it, it will go brown much more easily than if you have fair skin. The amount of pigment (melanin) in your skin comes from your parents - if your parents go brown easily then you are likely to too but if your parents are fair, or burn easily then you are likely to do the same. If you burn then you do not to have much melanin in your skin and if you go brown then you have more melanin in your skin. Hope this helps!

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Melanin is a dark brown or black pigment produced by the melanocyte which is found in the stratum germinativum of the epidermal layer of skin. It is the sign of a melanoma (black + tumor) which used to be called "Black Mole Disease".

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