Dr. Shawana Vali

The other key thing we need to remember is you mentioned Latinos versus Caucasians or Afro-Caribbeans versus Caucasians.

We've got – and I'm Indian-African, by the way –

As pale as I am.

Yeah, as pale as I am.

Basically.

But here's the thing, right?

I have melanin in me.

So if you and I went into the sun, you'd burn quite quickly.

I wouldn't.

I have a protective melanin in me.

So Afro-Caribbean skin, and remember there's 28 different types of collagen.

So all of us have different types of collagen.

I'm only aware of nine, but there's 28.

So there's one in three that we really work on in aesthetics, that we really upregulate, that gives you your strength, your volume, the tightness.

And then there's four, seven and 14 that work on the anchors between the beauty layer of the skin and the medical layer of the skin to hold it in place.

But Afro-Caribbean people have different distribution to Caucasian people.

Afro-Caribbean people have more melanin, so they're protected from the sun.

Whereas you're not.

If the UV damages your cells, you get the aging, you get the glycation, you get the fine lines of wrinkles, you get the sunburn.

But then on the other hand, Afro-Caribbean skin pigments easily, keloids easily.