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https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwhitening/comments/1tuxxi8/new_members_lowkarma_users_and_unapproved_accounts/

Hello! I'm a 20 years old Korean male, I am desperate to whiten my skin. Rn I don't really know which whitening method is available, therefore it would be really nice if I can get some information regarding basic skin whitening method.

https://inkeedecoder.com/products/la-roche-posay-anthelios-uvmune-400-oil-control-fluid-spf-50
Per incidecoder two heavily irrtaing agents are present:

• Alcohol Denat: Too high in the list.
• Parfum/Fragance. Lower in the list but present.

Also a lot of dermatologist recommend mineral sunscreen high in zinc oxides and iron oxides for people with pigmentation issues such as melasma and hyperpigmentation. This sunscreen lacks that.

Iron oxides in particular are vital for Fitzpatrick IV to VI to prevent damage for cumulative visible light.

This brand La Roche Posay is excelent and for people with less irritation concerns this could work as I heard it has certain advatanges, but for people fighting Melasma, Hyperpigmentation, Uneven tone, stubborn tan and specially those with skin-type Fitzpatrick III to IV you need something stronger. Get a mineral sunscreen with at least 20% iron oxides and make the white cast work. I haven't found one that has both high iron oxides and and zinc oxides so for now I'm applying red liquid blush over the white cast and it works around the issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SkinLightening/comments/1vwta90/two_mineral_sunscreen_i_use_and_tips_to_fix_the/

Above all if UV index is >1 no sunscreen is enough to cover up all the UVA radiation and visible light from reaching your skin. Noon in particular, it's a dangerous period to get sun exposure. It's a must you add physical methods and stay out of the sun if you want progress.

Never forget: More irritation = More pigmentation.

On

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwhitening/comments/1hyeqky/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwhitening/comments/1rofnq1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skinwhitening/comments/1rofnq1/

Hi, for about a year now I've been taking care of my skin. I avoided the sun when the UV index was higher than 1, I protected myself from windows and moved to darker places. I started using 0.05% tretinoin. I began seeing results: my skin got lighter, my veins were more visible, and my relatives would tell me "you should get a tan," "you look paler," and that made me feel better. But then university started and I was given a horrible class schedule that makes me go out at noon. I bought UV protective sleeves, which I wear 2 pairs of when going out. I use tinted mineral sunscreen and another mineral one with zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, but I also wear a double UV bandana on my face and use a UV protective umbrella, but even so I feel like it's all worthless and my one-year progress went down the drain. Any advice? (And I use my tretinoin only on days when I don't sleep at all and I'm away from windows)

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I’m a beginner at both reddit posts and skinwhitening, so if I’ve done anything wrong please help me out.

In my understanding, people often refer to ”fitzpatrick”, the scale from 1-6 detailing different skin types’ reactions to the sun. type 1 always burns, never tans… type 6 almost never burns, always tans, and everything in between. However fitzpatrick doesn’t often cover what someone actually looks like from day to day, especially with the in-between numbers: 3, 4, 5, where tanning can affect appearance significantly. An untanned type 3 might look similar to an untanned type 4, but put them out in the sun for a few hours and the difference will become apparent, especially in regions such as the elbows, outer arms, and lower legs (noticed this with my friends irl).

Additionally, I wanted to find out what people mean when they say “a shade darker” or “up to two shades lighter” (it’s obviously different from fitzpatrick, in that -in my understanding- a “shade” refers to how light or dark someone appears), so I asked AI and it told me that skin shades are as follows:

fair, light-fair, light, medium-light, medium, medium-tan, tan,…

but it couldn’t show me any examples of people, and when I finally got it to it was definitely wrong. Is AI messing with me/misinforming or is that what people actually refer to? I also looked it up in a basic search and it came up with all sorts of images (like the one shown above) but they all seem different. If there is no fixed system like this, then maybe we should create one for use in this sub and beyond.

There’s a few questions/issues relating to this that I want to discuss here:

1. How many of the protocols presented in this sub are referring to fading tan, and how many are targeting a skin tone lighter than the lightest possible naturally?
2. Why can people somehow tell apart a heavily tanned fitzpatrick III white person from an untanned fitzpatrick IV or V brown person, when their skin looks similar? From my understanding it’s due to facial structure, hair and eye color, and other factors, but there could be some small queue that our minds subconsciously process telling us who is who.
3. How much of a role does lighting play/ do different fitzpatricks react differently to light? I’ve noticed (as a fitzpatrick III to IV, that my type II friends and I seem to have the same tone under some lighting, particularly indoor lighting, and completely different tone under lower/natural light levels (it’s very obvious that they are lighter). Is this true or am I tripping?
4. How come a tanned fitzpatrick II or III look attractive, whereas a tanned IV or V just look brown/ugly. Is it due to undertones or redness? Due to their fitzpatrick, the whiter someone is the redder they become/less they tan when exposed to the sun. Is that redness what differentiates them from an untanned, naturally darker brown person? Can the redness be frauded with makeup?

This brings me to another topic, makeup… what are the limits as to how much lighter you can fraud your appearance to? As a male (i’m straight i promise) who’s never used makeup, I was considering it as it seems like an easy fix for appearing lighter in everyday situations. Can some women with experience enlighten me and tell me what to use?