Skin Discoloration

Showing off a flawlessly smooth and even skin tone equates to a perfectly more beautiful you. You can turn heads to your direction, simply boosting your confidence. Nature, however, can sometimes be cruel and ruins your glorious dream of flaunting a flawless skin. The harmful rays of the sun and other environmental pollutants that penetrates our bodies giving skin tone ruining effects such various kind of skin disorder and diseases that often lead to skin discoloration. Aside from the imperfect look it gives to our skin, skin discolorations could serve as a sign of a more serious health problem that is skin deep. So if you spot discoloration on your skin, it helps not only to be beauty conscious but health conscious as well.

One can easily detect skin discoloration. Its mere physical appearance is obvious—uneven coloration in the skin that could either be lighter or darker than the dominant normal skin color. Different types of skin blemishes such as freckles, stretch marks, and scars are some of the causes of skin discolorations. When blemishes hit our skin, it leaves a distinctively different skin tone of either a darker or lighter color on or around the blemished spot of the skin. Skin discoloration may also appear in small or large patches or band linings.

Scientifically, skin discoloration is also the result of melanin overproduction in the body that leads to abnormal enhancement of uneven skin pigmentation, which usually looks blotchy and ugly. As mentioned earlier, ultraviolet rays emitting from the sun, tanning beds and other equipment is one of the reasons for skin discoloration. Ultraviolet rays help activate the melanin producing cells called melanocytes leading to uneven skin pigmentation.

Cover It

Since it’s ugly, discoloration in the skin is often covered or hidden away from sight. Skin discoloration remedies could be just right in your make up kit. Beauty conscious women usually hide skin’s imperfection through the use of concealer and foundation. Use yellow-based concealer especially if the discoloration is darker than the normal skin tone.

If you have the dough, resorting to a more permanent solution is easier. One can go through micropigmentation treatment to get rid of visually annoying skin discoloration. Micropigmentation is a surgical procedure that allows makeup to permanently stay in your skin. It applies skin pigments that would even out your skin tone. The treatment would allow you to save time and energy in trying to manually even out discoloration on your skin.

Be Alarmed

Aside from distinctively lighter or darker skin tone, skin discoloration could also appear in bluish or excessively white form. This case should serve as a medical alarm. Bluish skin coloration on the cheeks, nose, lips, legs, feet, and even under the fingernails could be a cyanosis, a skin discoloration that occurs when there is lack of oxygen in the blood that could be associated with heart failure, and lung diseases. It can, however, be also caused by overexposure to cold temperature. If the weather is extremely cold for you and you noticed bluish coloration on your body, try to warm yourself first. If your skin color won’t go back to normal then better see a doctor immediately for proper diagnosis.

Excessive whiteness on certain parts of the skin, on the other hand, could be a case of vitiligo, a chronic skin disorder where the body can hardly produce melanin, which protects us from harmful rays of the sun. Getting more prone to skin cancer due to the absence or lack of enough protective pigments is the serious concerns of people with vitiligo.

Always remember that our skin only reflects what’s going inside our body. The skin is not only a measure of beauty but a measure of healthy well being too.