One definition says that hyperpigmentation is the effect of an increase in melanin, and melanin is the substance in the body that is responsible for the color that you have. But what if you are a melanated person and you’re challenged with hyper- pigmentation? What has caused it in your skin?

As quiet as it’s kept, people of color do suffer from sun damage and overexposure in the sun can definitely cause trauma to your skin. If you are a dark skinned person, you are one who is fortunate and blessed to have more melanin.

When you’re looking at skin on African Americans or people of color, you’ve got a variety of complexions.  So those that are fairer skinned, you’re going to see changes in your skin from the sun in ways that will present what’s technically found on Caucasian people as age spots.

But on African American skin, depending on your skin complexion, you will find age spots as well, especially with your hands and the left side of your face if you’re a driver.

If you drive a car you will find that the left side of your face is typically darker than the right side and for some reason the sun always manages to cast on that side of the body when you’re out in a car.

The reason a lot of people experience age spots is because your hands are exposed on steering wheels, especially on cars. That’s if you’re typically a fair skinned person.

If you range from the medium to darker side, you might see sunburn or definitely a darkening of the skin and there are those of you who actually get freckles. Freckles can show up on your complexion if you’re fair skinned and if you’re of a more brown hue of the complexion scale.

Those are considered forms of hyperpigmented skin. Most of you know hyperpigmentation as dark spots caused by a popped pimple. That is a hyperpigmented skin spot and acne is considered the same.

Nutrition and How It Helps in Skin Care

Nutrition plays an important part when it comes to acne. If you stop sodas, high greasy foods, a lot of sugars, eat a lot of green foods and drink more water, your system will internally begin to cleanse and eliminate a lot of those particular trauma-causing foods to the body. You’ll see a great difference in how your skin looks.

So don’t be so quick to run and grab a product for acne to use externally and if you do, it will help you if you use a nutrition guide with your eating habits so you can balance it out from within and without.

What Else Causes Hyperpigmentation?

Some of the other things that cause hyperpigmentation are birth control pills and prescription medication. You’re taking a product into your system and this becomes a part of your blood stream.

When you don’t know what the chemical composition of this prescribed medication is and how it affects your body, your blood stream starts showing you through the reaction of what your skin shows within a given mirror.

If you spray perfume on your skin that’s been exposed to the sun, you will experience sun trauma.

Most perfumes have a lot of alcohol in them and when you’ve been in the sun, and spray yourself with a perfume, it will traumatize the skin simply because the alcohol is hitting a part of your skin that’s been exposed to the sun for a while.

One of the simplest ways to deal with basic hyperpigmentation (uneven skin tone) is a good skin care regimen for black skin, that includes an exfoliation treatment.

This is a good way to assist your skin in returning to that youthful glow and that softness where your skin looks as though it’s dewy and moisturized.

That’s because you’ve taken those dead skin cells off of that top layer. Your skin can now breathe and it’s showing you that top layer that was lying dormant because of a simple process of exfoliation.

Not all hyperpigmentation is trauma. Trauma comes in when the medication sets in or you’ve picked through your face with tweezers and pulled the hair out the wrong way.

On the lighter scale, just not exfoliating your skin will have you looking as though your skin is uneven and a good cleansing and exfoliation will help to remedy that particular discomfort.

As with all skin care regimens, cleansing, toning and moisturizing, and exfoliating at least once a week will give your skin a very youthful and clean glow.

To eliminate a lot of what we know can cause hyperpigmentation at this time is just a matter of not bringing trauma to the skin.

In talking to nutritionists and physicians, what you eat has a lot to do the appearance of your skin.

So if you combine nutrition with a good skin care regimen you’ll be a lot more pleased with what you see staring back to at you in the mirror.  And hyperpigmentation will be less of a challenge to your ski

Dedicated To Your Beauty,

Juliette Samuel

Author/Esthetician/Publisher

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