HOW SKIN COLOR WORKS
PIGMENT AND FRECKLES.
Skin color or skin pignment is something that our students have
typically love to learning about.Genetics plays a huge role in
skin color or skin pigment, and even that the sun can influence
how much pigment the skin produces.But what layer
specifically ia responsible for the skin pigment and more
importantly, what are some of those differences that you might
see inside the skin with somebody with dark skin all the way up
to lighter skin and everywhere in between. Those with the
darker skin have a grater difference in the pigment of the palm
of their hand and the dorsal aspect of their hand, we'll talk
about why that is and even go into some sun damage and
things of that nature. The skin belongs to a system called the
Integumentary System or the Integument. It
comprised of three main layers.That are given below
1. EPIDERMIS. The superficial layer of the integument is
reffered as Epidermis. (Epi means Upon and Dermis means
Skin). The top paper thin layer that actually makes up the
epidermis, so pretty thin.The majority of the epidermis
throught out the body is about 0.1 to 0.15 millimeters in
thickness.Pretty close to the thickness of a sheet of paper.
, There are some other areas of the epidermis that are
much thicker like on the palm or the soles of the feet.That
can range from 0.6 to 4.5 millimeters in thickness.
2. DERMIS or the DERMAL TISSUE. Dermis or the
dermal tissue and that is the majority of thickness.The
dermis is a dense connective tissue that provides strength
from like tensile forces like the skin being pulled apart also
has hair follicles pushing down into it glands and even
blood vessels.
3.HYPODERMIS Or the SUBCUTANEOUS LAYER.The
hypodermis is made up of an adipose tissue.An adipose can
range frombrelatively thin all the way up to thick and that
adipose layer or that subcuatneous layer also known as
hypodermis.It is for energy storage and insulation.The ture skin
actually the epidermis and the dermis.We add the hypodermis
to complete the whole integumentry system.
We wanna talk about where the pigment comes from.If we talk
about tattoos,the majority of the tatto ink geta deposited into
the dermis. But there is a large difference between artificial ink
or pigment and creating our own pigment.Where we crate it is
specifically on the epidermis.If we zoomed into the top edge of
the epidermis, there again it would look paper thin to the
naked eye.But if we zoomes in we would see that it is cell upon
cella stacked on top each other or multiple cell layer thick.The
PIGMENT AND FRECKLES.
Skin color or skin pignment is something that our students have
typically love to learning about.Genetics plays a huge role in
skin color or skin pigment, and even that the sun can influence
how much pigment the skin produces.But what layer
specifically ia responsible for the skin pigment and more
importantly, what are some of those differences that you might
see inside the skin with somebody with dark skin all the way up
to lighter skin and everywhere in between. Those with the
darker skin have a grater difference in the pigment of the palm
of their hand and the dorsal aspect of their hand, we'll talk
about why that is and even go into some sun damage and
things of that nature. The skin belongs to a system called the
Integumentary System or the Integument. It
comprised of three main layers.That are given below
1. EPIDERMIS. The superficial layer of the integument is
reffered as Epidermis. (Epi means Upon and Dermis means
Skin). The top paper thin layer that actually makes up the
epidermis, so pretty thin.The majority of the epidermis
throught out the body is about 0.1 to 0.15 millimeters in
thickness.Pretty close to the thickness of a sheet of paper.
, There are some other areas of the epidermis that are
much thicker like on the palm or the soles of the feet.That
can range from 0.6 to 4.5 millimeters in thickness.
2. DERMIS or the DERMAL TISSUE. Dermis or the
dermal tissue and that is the majority of thickness.The
dermis is a dense connective tissue that provides strength
from like tensile forces like the skin being pulled apart also
has hair follicles pushing down into it glands and even
blood vessels.
3.HYPODERMIS Or the SUBCUTANEOUS LAYER.The
hypodermis is made up of an adipose tissue.An adipose can
range frombrelatively thin all the way up to thick and that
adipose layer or that subcuatneous layer also known as
hypodermis.It is for energy storage and insulation.The ture skin
actually the epidermis and the dermis.We add the hypodermis
to complete the whole integumentry system.
We wanna talk about where the pigment comes from.If we talk
about tattoos,the majority of the tatto ink geta deposited into
the dermis. But there is a large difference between artificial ink
or pigment and creating our own pigment.Where we crate it is
specifically on the epidermis.If we zoomed into the top edge of
the epidermis, there again it would look paper thin to the
naked eye.But if we zoomes in we would see that it is cell upon
cella stacked on top each other or multiple cell layer thick.The
