Hmmm... I don't know if its just me... but some Japanese people
have different skin tone to the rest of other orientals. Their skin
appears to be a sort of milkish - white. And when I mean white I
don't mean nordic caucasian racial stock. I'm talking about their
skin tone here.
all skin colours are white(no pigment) in the lower layers
of the skin but pigmented on the epidermis (outer most layer)
white skin - no pigment in the lower layers and an epidermis
with very little pigments or in other words translucent.
yellow skin - no pigment in lower layers and an epidermis with
very little pigments but has carotene in the lower layers that
exute an amber tinge.
from my observation I notice that japanese are extremely light
yellow, beige-sorta milky and some even white.
Has anyone been to Japan? Can you shed some light on this (no
pun intended).
Yes this is true.
Unfortunately for me (being half japanese), I'm much fairer than
my Chinese male friends, even after countless camps and outings at
the beach. Japanese tend to get sunburnt very easily, and after
recovering from it, we are as fair as ever -.-
As for the yellow-beige issue, I think there is some validity in
it. I have a girlfriend (chinese) and she's always complaining to
me that why am I having a nicer skin tone as compared to her and
other typical chinese. My skin color, even tho I'm asian, is
slightly pinkish beige instead of the usual chinese yellow-y color.
But I'm still yellow-skinned to some extent! :)
Guess I've got more 'japanese genes' from my mom :P
Hope this answers your questions. It is plausible. :)
