My Elaboration on Skin Pigmentation of Roma Gypsies

[Mortimer]

The gypsies in IM's picture range from around M7 to M11 in my opinion. The lightest ones are still at the higher end of the scale for Europeans.

my picture is long gone. i put up my um and a few relatives.

[Albion]

my picture is long gone. i put up my um and a few relatives.

I was referring to the one with all the women in it. You look around M6, probably the European blood in you.

[Mortimer]

I was referring to the one with all the women in it. You look around M6, probably the European blood in you.

do you refer to their whites parts on the body or their dark faces?

also here is my mum, i dont look much different than her eventhough im slightly lighter.

where on the graph would you place her?

[Siegfried]

Albion, you're being unfair. I wanted to mention the Irish travellers.

[Albion]

do you refer to their whites parts on the body or their dark faces?

Faces. The white areas of their bodies are the parts that are usually protected from the sun.
If you look at the underside of a Negro's hands they are very much lighter than the parts of the body exposed to sun.


Give us aid!

also here is my mum, i dont look much different than her eventhough im slightly lighter.

She does look darker.

where on the graph would you place her?

M8~M9

Albion, you're being unfair. I wanted to mention the Irish travellers.

I'm just faster I suppose, sorry.

[leisitox]

IM you look like your mother :O, incredible.

[Mortimer]

Faces. The white areas of their bodies are the parts that are usually protected from the sun.
If you look at the underside of a Negro's hands they are very much lighter than the parts of the body exposed to sun.

I dont think this is the same, i mean the underside of the hands and feets of a negroe. LOOOL. Is that the same as body shade?

She does look darker.



M8~M9

Where do you place yourself?

[Albion]

I dont think this is the same, i mean the underside of the hands and feets of a negroe. LOOOL. Is that the same as body shade?

I think it relates to lack of sun. The African underside of the hands and the women's chest usually covered by clothes (I'd expect).

Those parts of the body which have less reason to be pigmented and little exposure to the sun are often lighter (not always).

Where do you place yourself?

M2 at the moment.

M1~M3 typically depending on season. It varies by season in pale skinned populations, anyone who tells you otherwise is a lier or never sets foot outside.
M4 is probably the highest I've ever gone on rare occasions, but that was from working out in the fields for weeks in the summer and it only affected my neck, arms and head.

I'd say light skinned populations can vary naturally by around 3 or 4 of those shades depending on whether it is summer or winter.

[Mortimer]

I think it relates to lack of sun. The African underside of the hands and the women's chest usually covered by clothes (I'd expect).

Those parts of the body which have less reason to be pigmented and little exposure to the sun are often lighter (not always).

I dont know it, so ill go with your explanation. It just doesnt seem the same to me. I think its rather like why genitals are darker than the rest of body so underside of hands are lighter, i think it has similar reason and not really sunexposure. 23andMe had an survey on skin colour and told us to look under the arms, not on the inside of the hands.