They used to say that a good healthy tan was good for you. It is however, not.The darkening of the skin is actually the cells burning or toasting. Nice thought huh? Too much sun can and does promote skin cancer which can be life threatening. Melonoma is a very dangerous type of skin cancer that if left untreated and checked can kill.
In order for the body to protect itself to prevent further damage to your body, it starts to produce melanin. The more melanin in your body, the darker the body becomes and the more your skin is protected.
Our skin has cells called melaninocytes which produce melanin, a pigment, made in response to sunlight. Many people have many cells and they have darker skin. Their families are from areas which have direct sunlight for most days.
Others have backgrounds from areas which don't get much sunlight. These people have lighter skin which they need so that they can use sunlight to produce Vitamin D.
Anyone who has melaninocytes will produce darker skin with an increase sunlight. If done carefully, darker skin will prevent burning.
The only people unable to make melanin are albinos.
The color of the skin is produced by melanin. When skin is exposed to excessive ultraviolet rays, the body produces more melanin of a darker variety as a protection for the skin from further damage.
because you have a condition 'semi-albinoism'. It is a genetic pigment mutation and in most cases has no effect on standards of life other than social aspects.
Your pigments absorb the sunlight or tanning light and creates a darker color.
Sunlight
Exposure to sunlight enables much of the world's population to maintain adequate vitamin D status. When the skin is exposed to sunlight, it produces vitamin D naturally. However, it is important to note that factors such as latitude, season, time of day, and skin pigmentation can affect the amount of vitamin D produced from sunlight.
It obtains a suntan (darkening of the skin), or sunburn, which is skin damaged by too long exposure to the sun's rays. Also vitamin D, essential for healthy bones, is also obtained.
It can be any number zero or more. Freckles are skin pigment sensitive to sunlight. It depends upon the skin type and exposure to sunshine; in the summer exposure to sunshine multiplies the number of freckles, but in winter with less sunshine they fade.
No, people cannot change their skin color to black solely by exposure to the sun. Skin color is determined by genetics and the amount of melanin, a pigment found in the skin. The sun can darken a person's existing melanin, resulting in a tan, but it cannot permanently alter a person's genetic makeup or produce a permanent change in skin color.
melanin becomes more and more darker when exposed to light.
Genetic factors, exposure to sunlight.
Genetic factors, exposure to sunlight.
When our skin get exposure to sun our skin darken. And skin darkening due to sun rays is known as tanning. Tanning is cause due acceleration in melanin.
It is melanin, produced by melanocytes, that causes the skin to darken which is found on the skin's epidermis. Overproduction or underproduction of melanin results to skin discoloration.That is the reason why too much sun exposure results to skin darkening - when melanocytes produce more melanin (hyperpigmentation) than they should, they turn into freckles or moles.For additional information about skin care, please check the Sources and related links section.
Some of the sunlight exists as ultraviolet light. Too much exposure to this can cause skin cancer.
Tan.
Too much exposure to sunlight and genes :)
No.
Sunlight
Freckles
if you mean without tanning or false tanning, there is no other way to darken your skin