Pigment – The good, the bad and the ugly

Still hankering after that golden glow? Sorry to tell you, but all tans are not created equal. Human skin has two main types of pigment – eumelanin and pheomelanin. Under the sun, fair skin generates more pheomelanin – a reddish, yellow-brown tone, while dark skin makes mainly eumelanin, a black-brown melanin – the best quality for natural UV-protection. Pheomelanin is …