A while ago I saw an adjective about skin color called "whiter than three days after I died." (Slightly frightening)
Some people will use it as a positive word to praise female stars.
Some netizens will also use it to satirize makeup that is too fair and not real enough.
The word "white" should always be the first element of beauty for Chinese, and it is also the public's primary pursuit of self-appearance improvement.
When Chinese women seek beauty, they must first seek "white", and netizens recall the impression of the first beautiful women they encountered on the road, which is basically inseparable from the judgment of white skin color.
Not only in China, but also in china, Japan and South Korea, the public aesthetics also believe that "as long as it is white enough, some subtle facial features and bone defects can be ignored and become a comfortable face." "It's called a white cover.
Korean girls can have small bugs on their faces, but they must be white
But does white skin really have that much magic?
Uncle is more and more found that what can bring us impactful beauty and play a role in covering up ugliness is really not just the "white" of skin color alone.
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We are not looking for whiteness, but transparency
I have been reading the "Plastic Code" written by Dr. Liu Taotao, a master of plastic surgery at Capital Medical University, for the past two days, and in the book I have come to a point of view: since ancient times, we are not appreciating the hue of a certain skin, and the so-called white that we have always liked is actually the high brightness of the skin color.
High brightness VS low brightness is actually the light and shade of color
There is an example in the book: in Qian Zhongshu's novel "Siege of the City", born in Macau, with a small amount of Portuguese ancestry, the appearance of Miss Bao, who has a darker complexion, is: "dark but not black, fat and spicy".
In turn, Su Wenyun is "thin and dry, as white as a dead fish's belly.".
In Fang Hong's eyes, although the former's skin color is dark, it does not lose its charm, but is hotter and sexier.
The concept of high brightness in this color, combined with low purity (saturation), is placed in the skin aesthetic, and we can change it to an easy-to-understand word called the transparency of the skin.
Think about it, although modern Chinese advocate white skin, they actually do not appreciate the high purity, high brightness of geisha white, low purity and high brightness of transparent skin is what we pursue.
Let's give another simple example of supporting evidence:
We understand that people are whiter than yellow people, but we are more willing to follow the skin care habits of Chinese, Japanese and Korean women in our daily lives and appreciate their skin.
Instead, we don't think that Caucasians with less melanin in their innate genes have beautiful skin. (Referring to skin alone, we never mention Caucasians when we mention good skin)
This is because compared with yellow people, Caucasians, although they have the least amount of melanin and are white enough, are also susceptible to photoaging damage.
The ability of cells to maintain moisture is poor, and the skin is like a white water ball that is not filled with water, mostly showing a dull and dull skin tone effect, with extremely low transparency. (Although there are good bone phase genes, but skin genes are not)
Yes, the transparency of our skin is not the higher the whiter, only the skin has a sufficient water content, a healthy stratum corneum, and people who are less affected by photoaging are more transparent.
Compared with whites and blacks, yellow people have medium melanin in their genes and a relatively thin and thick stratum corneum, and we are the most likely race to have highly transparent skin.
So how can you easily meet this high transparency skin standard? Continue to look down, today's serious science popularization, no wide!
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How to judge whether your skin is transparent or not
(Really no wide)
Japanese aesthetics like to pursue transparency the most, and they are always inseparable from ice, water, snow and other elements in their transparent character photography and landscape photos.
Transparent, inseparable from water, this is the same reason for placing it in the skin.
The first factor that affects the transparency of our skin is the water content of the stratum corneum.
The skin is divided into stratum corneum, granular layer, spinous layer, and basal layer, each of which has a water content, and the water content decreases sequentially.
Among them, the water content of the stratum corneum is about 15%-20% is the best state.
At this time, because the water content between cells is sufficient, the stratum corneal cells are evenly arranged, the skin transmittance is very good, and the light can be well reflected and refracted, the overall transparency will become very high, and the skin looks like a naturally shiny healthy state.
When the water content of the stratum corneum is ideal, the thickness and peeling speed (preferably 28 days) are stable, and the skin will not be red, dry, itchy, dull and acne-prone, and there is no acne pit, even if the skin color is dark, it is also good-looking.
However, when the water content of the stratum corneum is less than 10%, all bugs will appear at the same time, lack of luster, wrinkles, and accumulation of old waste stratum corneum, resulting in rough skin, dark chips, and greatly reduced transparency.
The second factor that affects the transparency of our skin is photoaging.
This point should be known to everyone for a long time, to prevent photoaging, to ensure that chemical and physical sun protection, this is not only for "whitening", but also for anti-aging.
I once had a colleague who often "took white" because his mother was white, never protected from the sun, and said that he was very good at tanning, but in fact, it was really not just as simple as tanning.
After the ultraviolet deposition caused by photoaging becomes more, those pigmented spots hidden in the deep layers of the skin will not know when to emerge, and the dull spots and wrinkles will suddenly pull the transparency of the crotch, even if the original white is paper, it will be dry white, dull white.
If you have such a friend around you (or yourself) and still don't believe in evil, you can do a Visia skin test, which scans the skin's surface for spots, wrinkles, textures, pores, and deep UV spots, brown spots.
With this test report, you can assess your skin transparency now and for about the next 5 years.
The first line is the current state, if your spots, texture, pores these three scores are not low, it means that your skin is smooth and full, sufficient water storage, there is no pigment deposition, the skin is most likely to be transparent.
If the usual sun protection is not careful, the value of ultraviolet spots and brown spots may be low, and these spots may not be seen at present, but with age, invisible spots will selectively emerge, and then it may be necessary to solve the problem of transparency through means such as picoseconds.
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The overall transparency is not high, how to get good transparency?
(Mo Run, Wu Guang)
I believe that many people will do skin management by applying skin care products and masks externally, in order to achieve the purpose of whitening (now it should be called transparency).
Although these two can allow us to get an instant whitening effect, but the time is very short, everyone must have had a good skin care at night, wake up in the morning and instantly turn white, and gray face at night.
This is because topical application skin care can only act on the stratum corneum at most, and they will give the stratum corneum plenty of moisture for a short period of time, but this is only to solve the urgent need.
Everyone must say that what you just said is that the stratum corneum has sufficient moisture to have good light refraction and transparency!
Yes, this is true, but the moisture in our skin goes up from the bottom layer, and if you are already losing moisture in the deep layers of the skin, it is far from enough to apply to the stratum corneum (because the moisture is still lost).
It's like there's no steady supply of food to the soldiers in the rear granary, you deliver him a snack a week, and you want him to win the battle, it's impossible.
We must be rational about skin and skin tone, the pursuit of high transparency than "white" can build a healthy skin beauty, if you want to get good skin, you must also know the right medicine!