The Science Behind Why Some Faces Have Freckles and Others Don't Is Actually Fascinating
by N/A, 10 years ago |
2 min read
Freckles are distinctive and beautiful, but a little bit mysterious. Why do these little spots appear on some faces, and not others? Where do they come from?Â
Ever heard of melanocytes? They're the little cells that are your sort of built-in sunscreen.
They protect your skin from UV damage from the sun, and they pump you up with melanin, darkening the skin, which serves to protect it from the sun. We've all got 'em!Â
But when the melanocytes aren't evenly distributed, the result on one's skin is freckles!
This is the melanin trying to darken the skin, but doing it in little bursts.Â
Freckled folk come with an extra little bonus gene known as the MC1R gene, and it balances the skin pigment. So freckled people aren't in any way less beautiful than plain skinned people...they've just got a little somethin' extra!
I mean...could anyone deny that THIS man is beautiful? No. No, they could not.Â
Historically, there was a stigma surrounding freckles—they were seen as a departure from 'flawless' skin, and weren't considered as beautiful—but we could NOT disagree more! We think that MC1R gene is a tiny little gift!
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