Personally,no.I've been fatigued by the sun and maybe a very mild sun stroke,but never experienced all the blistering and peeling that YT has to endure.

My skin colour is chocolate on the face and burnt caramel the rest of my bod,so I guess my skin is built for sun.

However,I read that 1 in 6 cases of malignant melanoma is an Asian or African case.

I do feel like we are living with a different type of sun these days,so was just wondering what y'all have encountered.

one of my ex girlfriends got sun burned....her skin was peeling and the whole nine yards....


she applied cocoa butter to protect her skin after that.....
both of her parents are black too....first case of sunburn on black person I'd ever heard of.....

Hmmm,interesting.


Was she on the lighter end of the colour spectrum??

Am asking because this is relevant to my amateur research.

Never been sun burned. Dont know any black person who has.

Yes i have been but it was my own fault once when i had it the worst. I went to Spain once and plastered oil all over my body and laid in the sun like that. I wanted to catch as much sun as possible so it would even out some marks that i had. My skin peeled a bit when i got back home.

I suffer from dry skin as well at times and for the first time last year (i won't count the above time as that was self inflicted) when i got back from my summer holidays to Florida my skin seemed to flake a little bit on my face. I am not to sure what caused this whether it was the sun, my dry skin or a mixture of both things. Normally that does not happen to me though.

I am not light skinned for a black person and neither i am that dark either my skin tone is like slap bang in the middle of the colour spectrum i would say.

I just went to go and have a look at that Sanaa Lathan and i wouldn't say that she was dark skinned.
http://upload.moldova.org/movie/acto...a_lathan_1.jpg

I would call someone like Whoopie Goldberg or Wesley Snipes dark skinned.

Only my forehead though gets flaky upon arriving in the UK depending on what season i visit nigeria...was a big surprise to me ...had to use St ives facial srcub to get rid of it and takes about 3 weeks for it to come back to normality

she was about...the shade of the sister on the far right...standing up

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g7...w/456cover.jpg

No, never been sunburned....not even in the middle of the Sahara.

I have heard of it with Black people though.

Thats always been my belief anything not near YT is Dark Skin..all the Mid tones and whatever is irrelevant and if in doubt ask a person of some other ethnicity what they think..for a completely unbiased opinion

I've never had a sun burn. Also skin cancer among people of African descent usually develop on the palm of our hands and soles of the feet where we have less pigmentation. It never hurts to wear sunscreen though, our skin intrinsically has an spf of 15 but given the ozone situation we may need more protection.

This is the case in the UK no doubt but if you go to some countries in Africa like Nigeria we just call ourselves black over here but in Nigeria that is a totally different case.

Terms like mid tone, chocolate, caramel (there are many more terms) are just mainly used to describe things within our community at times i think.

Btw, Melissa i hope that you have a nice holiday.

Edited to add:
Like I said we are all just black and are all seen as being dark skinned to many white people in the USA or the UK. I think that black people are aware though that there is such diversity within our community going from the lightest beige to the bluest brown black. All shades are beautiful no doubt but I think if you say to another black person that you are mid brown in shade they should know what you are going on about without making it into an issue.
I used to do quite a bit of art and sometimes I still like to draw portraits in my spare time. I did art up to AS level standard.
When I was doing my GCSE’s my teacher asked me to sit to be painted. She told the class to look out for the differences in the skin tones like the yellows, reds, brown etc. I think before that point I would have painted with just one colour brown. I guess from that point it made my eye more aware of the colour spectrum and how colours are made up.