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Fitzpatrick

Skin Phototypes

Love the skin you ’ re in . Wear the skin you ’ re in . Determine the skin you ’ re in ?

by Dr . Alpesh Desai

Renowned as the largest and one of the most important organs of the human body , skin (“ pigment-ly ” speaking ) has a lot to offer . Across the nation in a pre-pandemic global era , cities like Houston , Chicago , and Atlanta collectively represented some of the most diverse metropolitan areas encompassing racially and ethnically distinct populations . Due to ongoing variations in climate change and an incline in the heat index that remains unrelenting , gone are the days where fair-skinned or hypopigmented predominance can be found within certain regions across the US . Simply put , the sun is out with a vengeance and anyone with a skin shade or lack thereof ,

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