Use Products Targeted for Your Race

One of the best beauty advice I can ever give you is to use products targeted for your own race. Companies pour millions of dollars annually trying to understand skin types better to increase profits. This is probably why many cosmetic and skincare companies focus on one race. Targeting something specific increases success rates, rather than a general target that their funding can't adequately cover. Department store products are more likely to target races than drugstore brands, but that isn't to say that you should steer clear of drugstore brands. It isn't the price tag that determines quality, it's the ingredients. And certain ingredients are formulated to accommodate certain races better than others. For example, whites generally age quicker than Asians and blacks. This is because Asians and blacks have a tendency to have oilier skin, and oilier skin adds lubrication that prolongs elasticity. So, it serves beneficial for white people to use products that don't zap natural oils, and this includes people with oily skin. There are different types of oily skin. Asians and blacks with oily skin is different from whites with oily skin. And this is precisely why using products intended for your race is ideal. Finding products that most closely match YOUR skin type is better than something that deals with your skin type. If a white person used a product intended for Asian people, for example, he or she can unknowingly zap oil that would be useful to him or her in the future had s/he have used a more appropriate product line. Skin color is another example. Asians tend to have a yellow undertone, so using an Asian product line is ideal if you're Asian and will more than likely result in a closer match. Asians with pale skin is slightly different from whites or Latinas with pale skin. Whites and Asians are more likely to find products targeted for their race than blacks and Latinas. Sadly, product lines dedicated to blacks is very limited, but at least there are options available. The problem is that if it doesn't work for some blacks, there isn't much alternative for them. There really aren't products available specifically for Latinas because they're so mixed that it's hard to formulate a product that'll work for them all. Then again, because they're so mixed, Latinas can look white, Asian, or black, which means that just as long as their skin type matches, theoretically, they can use products intended for that race with success because of the genetic similarity. Whatever your circumstance is, understand it, embrace it, and act accordingly. There's nothing wrong with who you are, and no one should make you ashamed of it. It's just skin. On the grand scale, it's an unimportant factor, but it still defines who we are, so we shouldn't forget it, either.