There are many causes of an uneven skin tone, the first step is to identify what's causing the issue. "The most common one is due to sun exposure," says Dr. Laura Scott, Miami-based board ...

Making products for all skin tones 08:25. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Band-Aid. One appealing feature has always been the product's flesh-tone finish.

Here’s why you should wear sunscreen, no matter your skin tone By . Sarah Ng. Published May 24, 2025, 3:48 p.m. ET. People with darker skin still need to wear sunscreen — for more reasons than ...

Google is promoting a new 10-point scale for measuring skin tones that it says will help make its products less biased. The Monk Skin Tone Scale was designed by Harvard professor Ellis Monk and ...

A 45-year-old black man shared a powerful message about inclusion on Twitter when he wrote about a band-aid that matched his skin tone. Dr. Dominique Apollon's tweets went viral last week and ...

The study, published today in The Lancet Digital Health, examined 21 freely accessible datasets of images of skin conditions.Combined, they contained over 100,000 images. Just over 1,400 of those ...

Smartphone company Tecno is creating Universal Tone — a system that aims to finally bring an end to inaccurate skin tones in your photos.

More information: Joshua A. Burrow et al, Smartphone tristimulus colorimetry for skin-tone analysis at common pulse oximetry anatomical sites, Biophotonics Discovery (2025). DOI: 10.1117/1.BIOS.2. ...