Welcome to the second installment of Skincare of POC. If you haven’t read Part 1A of this series, you can find it here. This post will focus on the characteristics of Asian skin – mainly those of Northeast/Southeast Asian ancestry. Melanin Skin within this group can vary from lighter complexions to different shades of brown. According to the Fitzpatric scale (a scale developed to estimate the response of different skin types to UV rays), Northeastern and Southeastern Asians, on average, fall within phototypes III to IV (8) while those from South Asia have skin that lies between III and VI. As is the case with skin of African origin, Asian…