Black Don’t Crack? Asian Don’t Raisin?

[LoLeL]

Science does back up these sayings. Darker skin can show age more slowly because it has more melanin (dark pigment that determines sun sensitivity). The more melanin you have, the more protection you have against photoaging, or skin damage from too much exposure to the sun’s rays.

“What we describe as cracking or fine lines, commonly seen in Caucasian skin as it ages, is often caused by sun exposure,” says board-certified dermatologist Dina Strachan, M.D., of Aglow Dermatology in New York.

But just because your racial background is one that gives you the benefit of skin that doesn’t easily wrinkle, doesn’t mean your skin doesn’t age. And those signs can vary from ethnicity to ethnicity as much as from person to person.

“Below the [skin’s] surface, you have your bone structure, muscle and soft tissue,” explains Michael Dobryansky, M.D., of Long Island Plastic Surgical Group. “As we get older there’s bone loss and soft-tissue loss — that’s your raisin. I’ve seen lots of patients who’ve lost weight for many reasons. Youthful bodies may be thin, but youthful faces have fat. The rosy cheeks of a baby are full.”

As a plastic surgeon sees it, there are structural reasons that people age differently. “Asians have a wider bone structure than a typical Caucasian face,” Dobryansky notes. “The soft-tissue loss is seen and felt to a lesser extent because of the wider structure. Think midface — the cheeks from the lower border of the eye — to just above the jawline. That’s where most of the volume of the face is” and where most people inject fillers.

That doesn’t mean Asians don’t show any signs of aging. “Asian skin, if it is more pigmented, is less like likely to ‘raisin,’ but it tends to spot in response to sun damage,” Strachan says. “Black people also may complain of discoloration [dark spots] as a sign of photoaging. I call the dark spot the wrinkle of brown skin. Black skin doesn’t tend to crack or get fine lines, but it may fold.”

But there’s another reason that genetics can determine who can pass for a decade or more younger and who can’t. There are the Methuselah genes, which are associated with longevity and appear in women “who have not undergone cosmetic procedures but still appear to be ‘ageless,’ ” according to the 2015 findings of a Multi-Decade and Ethnicity study at Harvard Medical School. These genes were found twice as often in black women as in Caucasian women. The study is being expanded to Asian and Hispanic women.

https://www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/s...-are-true.html

[Heather Duval]

If youre white just avoid the sun and you gonna be forever young
diet also works, eat okra

[Odin]

[porkbbq]

Look at me. Look at my age. Without facial hair I can sit in a school classroom. White wizardry.

[Latinus]

Looking young when you're already young suck for males. I look younger and that sucks.
The ideal is to look younger when you're in your 40's or 50's.

[porkbbq]

Looking young when you're already young suck for males. I look younger and that sucks.
The ideal is to look younger when you're in your 40's or 50's.

It did until i was about 25, then that lined me up perfectly with 18 year old girls. Hang in there.

[rein]

Look at me. Look at my age. Without facial hair I can sit in a school classroom. White wizardry.

Good genes, eh.

[Wadaad]

Black dont crack
Asian dont raisin


but White cant fight! (the ravages of father time)

[porkbbq]

Black dont crack
Asian dont raisin


but White cant fight! (the ravages of father time)

*kicks twig Somalian legs*

[sean]

"Blacks Don't Crack" is an illusion that blacks age better than whites. In truth blacks were never beautiful, thus it is not readily noticeable when they become uglier with age. They can also tell where they have dry skin more easily (ashy) and so they moisturize more often than we do.

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Also the prognathism help prevent nasolabial folds. They are mostly obese after 30, which hides wrinkles well. 60% of black women in America are obese compared to 32% of white women. They look 35 from 15-45, then they go downhill quick. That's even with them coating their entire bodies in cocoa butter grease for their entire lives.

Asians don't eat a lot. The more you eat, the quicker you age.

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