Tag: black-skin
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A Chair-Side Read For Fitzpatrick 5 & 6
ANNIE PALMERB E A U T I F U L SKIN| LICENSED ESTHETICIANYour skin isn’t difficult. It’s reactive — and the usualscale doesn’t measure that. How I read deep skin before I ever touch it. The scale most of us were handed — Fitzpatrick — was built in 1975 to predict one thing: how fair…
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A PARADIGM I WANT TO NAME
ANNIE PALMERBEAUTIFUL SKIN| LICENSED ESTHETICIAN The Fitzpatrick scale stopped at six. I want to name the seventh. Not another skin type. An ideal — the one deep skin was never given. Here’s a thing hiding in plain sight: the fair end of the spectrum has always had an ideal. Alabaster. Porcelain. Lotus. None of it…
Annie Palmer 