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Black Don'T Asian Crack Asian Dont

Black Dont Crack Asian Dont Raisin The Truth Behind the Clichs.

Getty Images My friend was 36 when she was telling people she was 34.

Yes, were in Hollywood, but shes tucked safely behind the camera as a screenwriter.

I asked her why she shaved two years, instead of, say, five or six, to put her sub-30.

Then she added: I dont have your kind of time Im white with blond hair and fair skin She was referring to my being Asian.

Shes not wrong Im often mistaken for being a decade or so younger than I am.

Weve all heard the snappy quips (or is it quippy snaps): Black dont crack.

Asian dont raisin.

Fat dont crack. Brown dont frown.

If youre somewhere like L.A.

New York, the average person can measure the passage of time on a face like a forensic scientist.

It does seem like Asians age differently, looking younger for longer.

As do black people.

But is there any truth to that Or is it just something people say The Methuselah, or ageless, gene was found twice as often in black women as in Caucasian women.

ITS NOT JUST YOU, ITS SCIENCE Science does back up these sayings.

Darker skin can show age more slowly because it has more melanin (dark pigment that determines sun sensitivity).

The more melanin you have, the more protection you have against photoaging, or skin damage from too much exposure to the suns rays.

What we describe as cracking or fine lines, commonly seen in Caucasian skin as it ages, is often caused by sun exposure, says board-certified dermatologist Dina Strachan, M.D., of Aglow Dermatology in New York.

And those signs can vary from ethnicity to ethnicity as much as from person to person.

LIKE BEAUTY, YOUTH ISNT SKIN-DEEP Below the skins surface, you have your bone structure, muscle and soft tissue, explains Michael Dobryansky, M.D., of Long Island Plastic Surgical Group.

As we get older theres bone loss and soft-tissue loss thats your raisin.

Ive seen lots of patients whove lost weight for many reasons.

As a plastic surgeon sees it, there are structural reasons that people age differently.

Asians have a wider bone structure than a typical Caucasian face, Dobryansky notes.

The soft-tissue loss is seen and felt to a lesser extent because of the wider structure.

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