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Humans have 23 chromosomes. Scattered across your chromosomes are pairs of "alleles" (making a gene) that code for hair color and skin tone. In the case of hair color and skin tone, they are made up of a combination of contributions from many alleles. When the alleles are ready by your cell machinery, they create proteins that are pigmented and hang out in your skin and hair to give them their color. Tanning can change the amount of pigment you have in your hair or skin.

Looking into basic genetics will tell you more about alleles, and how some can be dominant (ie, loud-mouths that don't allow any of the other alleles for that trait to be heard), or co-dominant (ie, a pair of loud-mouths that both yell loud enough to be expressed equally well), or recessive, which will be heard only if the corresponding allele is also recessive.
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