Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color: The Strictly Natural Way to Dramatically Lighten Your Skin Color Through Diet and Lifestyle
Believe it or not, skin color is not fixed, and you can change your skin color to a remarkable degree without ever using toxic drugs, chemicals, or steroids! This incredible method is not new! Thousands of years of different dietary practices and traditions have created the diversity of skin colors we see in our world today. In Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color, Dr. Thienna reveals age-old traditions that led to the development of the lightest complexions on the planet, such as those seen in Northern Europe and Japan. Now, you can use diet and lifestyle to control your own skin color!
In this book, youll find methods to:
- Lighten your natural-born complexion all over your body
- Even out your complexion and reduce visible age spots, sun spots, and hyperpigmentation
- Restore sun-damaged, dull, darkened skin to youthful health
- Bring natural color to ashen-gray skin on elbows and knees
- Noticeably reduce any yellow cast to your skin
- Obtain a natural tan complexion
Learn the answers to intriguing questions:
- Why do men tend to have darker skin than women?
- Why do the poorest countries have the darkest people?
- Why do some African American celebrities seem to get lighter over time?
- Why do people tan even when they are not going out in the sun?
- Why are men darker than women?
This is the only book you will ever need to solve your own skin problems no matter what your skin color. Allow Dr. Thienna to Unlock the Mystery of Skin Color Right before Your Eyes!
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User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Interesting
I have gone through this book and have found it to be quite interesting. I think that her claims are genuine and sincere despite some questionable proof. I have not yet tried her products but I do know from personal experience that diet does effect the skin. The book is great in revealing the monotonous dribble about skin color and will explain things in way not previously thought of. I only wish Thienna Ho would have provided more pictures and more evidence of her findings to prove her claim.
2 Stars Why?
Despite the report of fine scientific research, I am troubled over the fact that the writer does not realize that people with more melanin than others which are going to be browner than those with very little, as in her case. People who are short are not going to be very tall. Aside from surgery or serious chemicals/medication, most of us know that we are pretty much stuck with our round bottoms, thin noses, curly hair, pointy or square chins. I am a very light skinned African-American woman who stumbled upon this book in the course of searching for beauty treatments to even out my golden colored skin. My brother is caramel brown, resembling Jimi Hendrix and my sister is light, light brown with freckles resembling news reporter Sue Simmons. None of us look alike, but you can not miss that we are siblings. My point is that having grown up non-white in the US, traveled abroad and lived in urban, suburban and rural communities, I am all to aware of racism, but never once wanted to be lighter. It would have been nice if I had dimples, a gap tooth (considered attractive in my community), or if my kinky curly hair was a little longer. I have had men from every culture make serious advances towards me. I feel that it was because I was a pretty lady, who could cooks, dance, listen attentivel, with a nice figure and a good sense of self, community, in good health and a job. What is going to happen to those of you who get lighter and your lives don’t change significantly? Will you dye your hair blonde and get blue contact lenses? The Creator knew exactly what He was doing making us all different. Does a rose smell any less sweeter, regardless as to the color it prouduces?
4 Stars Can You Actually Change Your Skin Color?
Have you ever wondered if it is possible to change one’s skin color?
In the Preface of her book, Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color, Vietnamese born Thiênna Ho, Ph.D asserts that she always was envious of her mother and siblings who were blessed with having been born with light complexions. Thiênna goes on to state that her complexion caused her a great deal of distress and as a result she was motivated to find out if it is possible to control one’s skin color.
Unfortunately, when she was studying microbiology at San Francisco State University as an undergraduate student and genetic engineering as a graduate student, she was saddened to discover that scientific research had not reached the stage that would help her unlock the mystery of changing one’s skin color. Consequently, Thiênna affirms, “if I wanted to have a beautiful fair skin, I would have to unlock the mystery myself!”
The findings presented in Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color are the results of Thiênna’s extensive research in the fields of biology, chemistry, genetics and nutrition as well as her own personal observations and experiences.
Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color is divided into nine chapters wherein Thiênna explores how changes in human skin color are the result from changes in environment, diet, behavior, health, and emotional and psychological factors as stress. She further delves into such topics as the mysterious variety of human skin color, the history of skin color of our ancestors, melanin, the mysterious, molecule of skin color, the importance of sulfur and how are bodies uses sulfur, how environment affects skin color, the importance of crafting a lifestyle and diet and how it affects our skin color, what you should know about vitamins and minerals and their effect on skin color, why we should not touch photosensitizing foods and drugs, tannin and the problem with ultraviolet radiation, and finally the benefits of massage as a stress reducer and its relationship to skin color.
Thiênna contends that genetic heritage is not the all-important determinant of skin color. As she exemplifies, some dark-skinned population groups as the Lemba have for the most part European ancestry and the Papua New Guineans have mostly Asian ancestry. Moreover, Thiênna states that solar radiation does not have as important an influence on the skin color of population groups as previously believed. As Ho illustrates, if we refer to some brown- skinned groups as the Eskimo or Sami peoples, we notice that they have lived in the sunlight-deprived polar region for thousands of years, yet their skins are not exactly light.
According to Thiênna, one of the most important factors in the determination of skin color and one that is grossly overlooked is the amount of sulfur in your skin. As she points out: “When skin of any color has less sulfur available for its use, it develops a darker shade. When skin of any color has plentiful supplies of sulfur available for it use, it develops a lighter shade.” Accordingly, Thiênna ardently believes that by changing the amount of sulfur in the pigment- producing layer of your skin, you can change your skin color. And in a nutshell this is the basis of Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color.
Essentially, Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color provides a road map showing how to enrich one’s diet with sulfur-rich foods and how to adopt behavior patterns that will maintain high sulfur levels in order to lighten one’s skin.
Thiênna asserts that after two years of practicing her method, which she calls her Natural Fairskin(tm) Method, her total body complexion lightened from a dark olive to a light olive. Her initial changes to her diet and behavior had not only evened her complexion tone throughout her body, but also naturally lightened her body including her nipples.
It should be mentioned, as indicated in the concluding chapter Lessons Learned, that the book is intended for people who want healthier complexions and not solely for those who want lighter and brighter complexions: “It is a `self-detective guide’ that you can use to track down ways to undo the skin problems that concern you-in your own home without every using any drugs, toxic chemicals, or steroids.”
In addition to its abundance of information, Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color also contains several interesting appendixes dealing with such topics as Van Luschan’s Skin Color Scale, skin colors compared by countries, skin reflectance measurements, distribution of minerals, nitrates, and sulphates in volcanic ash, some chemical compounds released by three volcanoes, carotenoids in common foods, and common foods containing cyanogenic glycosides.
Although there are quite a few endnotes, it would have been helpful if there were references to additional reading resources as well as a bibliography, an index and suggested websites and additional reading resources.
Nonetheless, Unlocking The Mystery of Skin Color is a fascinating and accessible insight into the factors influencing skin color and should be of interest to anyone who wishes to know more about the possibility of changing its color without the use of toxic or botanically based chemicals, drugs or steroids.
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor Bookpleasures
4 Stars The guide to natural way of lightening your skin color
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (2/08)
The first time I truly and really became aware of importance and influence of skin color was when I moved to USA 8 years ago. Growing up in Europe skin color just wasn’t an issue, or at least not one that would merit more than a second’s pause when one met somebody of a different race. I have to admit I never gave it much thought, and even after reading Thiênna Ho’s book, I found myself quite surprised that my home country ranks among those with the absolute lightest people on the planet. Skin color was not and still is not anything that defines a person in my eyes, but unfortunately I had to learn that in certain parts of the world it truly matters enormously. Whether we like to admit it or not, life in the USA is easier if you happen to be lighter skinned. I am not going to moralize nor preach about this issue; suffice to say that I do understand why a person would want to lighten her or his skin if they could do it safely.
Thiênna Ho’s “Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color” carries a long subtitle, namely “The Strictly Natural Way to Dramatically Lighten Your Skin Color Through Diet and Lifestyle.” While the cover photos failed to convince me that the color change in Thiênna Ho’s own case was quite this dramatic, I see absolutely nothing wrong with the diet and lifestyle changes that she recommends. All of us would benefit from eating smarter, moving more, eliminating toxins and stress from our life, taking nice long baths and indulging in massages - which are some of her tips.
It is obvious that Thiênna Ho performed an outstanding amount of research while developing her method and writing her book. Just a glance through the over 40 pages of endnotes shows the great number and diversity of sources used in writing “Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color.” The book is actually quite interesting reading for the general public as well, dealing with diverse topics such as the great variety of the human skin colors, melanin, influence of sulfur on the skin color, the role of the environment as well as several chapters on nutrition and lifestyle. The surprisingly easy to read and understand style contributes to the feeling that this book should not be intimidating to anybody - it is written in such a way that a general reader can get enough useful information; and the more advanced or a professional one will find another nearly 100 pages of data, tables and sources in the appendices.
Regardless of whether you pick up “Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color” because you truly want to lighten your complexion or out of sheer curiosity, I am certain that you will learn a lot of both useful tips and fascinating trivia about an attribute that we all posses and which oftentimes defines us - even when it should not.
5 Stars Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color
Did you every wonder about the following?
Why do men tend to have darker skin than women? Why do the poorest countries have the darkest people? Why do some African American celebrities seem to get lighter over time? Why do I have a tan even when I do not go out in the sun?
If so, Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color is a must read for you.
Thienna was born in Vietnam where white skin is treasured as a characteristic of beauty. Her mother, sister and brothers had a light complexion but she did not. This caused Thienna much distress.
By the time Thienna was twelve years old, her family moved to San Francisco. She tried several things to lighten her skin but it only darkened it. Thienna came to the conclusion that scientific research did not have the answer to her questions.
Since Thienna is a nutritionist, she started her quest by investigating how nutrition influences skin color. She was able to make many connections between what people eat and their skin color. As the author continued her research and experimentation, her skin color lightened. It is important to point out that she did not use any toxic or botanically based chemicals, no drugs and no steroids.
The author gives us some very interesting facts regarding Von Luschan’s Chromatic Scale, the first tool used to classify skin color.
Thienna points out that melanin is the basic building block of your skin pigment; however, its characteristics make it very difficult to study.
The author states that one of the most important determinants of skin color is the amount of sulfur in the skin. If you change the amount of sulfur in the pigment producing layers of your skin, you can change the skin color.
Another factor in determining skin color is the environment.
Thienna gives the reader detailed information on selecting a diet that is good for the skin and tells us about foods and drugs we should not even touch.
Unlocking the Mystery to Skin Color is an intriguing and interesting book. It is very obvious that the author has done much research in order to be able to write this book. This book is easy to understand and gives the reader a thorough history on skin color. Throughout the book there are sections called “Warning” where the author advises the reader on what they should not do. There are several photographs, charts and lists to help the reader understand the points the author is making. The reader will also find a lists of “Dos and Don’ts” in order to have fantastic skin. Thienna backs up her research with several before and after photos of people who have been able to lighten their skin by using her method. If you are interested in changing your skin color or want more information about restoring damaged skin, this is the book for you. The author has done a thorough job in writing this book and if you ever had any questions regarding skin color, I’m sure you will find the answers here. As the author states, skin color is not fixed. Thienna gives the reader plenty to think about. I know it made me do a lot of thinking as I read this book. Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color is highly recommended.
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