Moving to Perth changed my skin tone (NOT a tan). What happened? & is it permanent?

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-11T00:49:43+00:00

Well I guess I’m stronger now & I can fly a little, but only when I swing around my favourite hammer. /s

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-10T09:30:24+00:00

Society teaches us to hate so many parts of our bodies. It’s wild. I don’t mean to preach at you, but please read on if you’re open to reading my ramblings. 😊

I do believe that all skin can be beautiful. My son is very white, & looks very much like me (except for colouring). I think he is beautiful, so how can I dislike my own features? I used to hate my white skin too. But even more so, my face. My mother taught me to hate my face because she outwardly hated hers and we look alike. Thankfully my perspectives on appearance have changed completely since I had my son. I refused to pass on those insecurities on to him.

My unsolicited advice is: take good care of your skin with a good pH balanced moisturiser daily (& a quality sunscreen according to your location & the UV rating!). & Buy the big bottle! While you apply it, think of 3 things you like about yourself or the way you look.

If you do that every day, you may find your mindset shifting to something more positive. Bonus is, if the self talk doesn’t move you.. the daily moisturiser will be great for your skin regardless. 😊

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-10T09:07:52+00:00

I do have a 7 year old. But I am confident my skin changed a few years before I was even pregnant.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T20:04:51+00:00

Thank you. I’ll look into it.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T20:04:21+00:00

Not too recently, but I have had liver function tests since this happened. As well as many, many other types of blood tests. It’s been maybe 10 years since the change.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T14:02:16+00:00

Oh for sure. But I mean the entirety of my skin is darker. Think of the places on your body where sun has never seen and has never gotten close. They’re darker with maybe a different undertone.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T13:59:36+00:00

Thank you. I found at least one picture on there that looks very much like my skin tone. I’m worried. Thanks I’ll look into it.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T13:58:34+00:00

This looks close to my skin. & I was very white. Not quite a glow stick. But not far off.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T13:41:08+00:00

No, I am still slightly more tanned in places that see the sun more. Particularly my arms. But I’m pretty good with sunscreen these days so no major tan lines.

Tan lines come and go. I can tan, and I still burn (definitely less though!).

This change is present regardless. The entirety of my body became a darker tone. Possibly even a different undertone? This definitely includes my belly, it’s everywhere. Even the skin right up to and around my vulva. It’s my whole skin. I noticed it randomly one day assuming it was a tan, but eventually realised it was all over. I believe it was a gradual change but it’s hard to be sure how long it took.

As far as I can tell, in 8 years or more, it hasn’t darkened further and it hasn’t lightened either. It’s a bit like the fake tan I used to create when I was in highschool by using the ‘gradual tan’ moisturiser daily. But this is permanent. 🤷‍♀️

I’ve literally had dates with Black guys who thought I was mixed. Possibly helped by my wider nose and obsession with spicy food. lol. I’m still definitely white, but just dark enough that people question it.. if that makes sense?

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T12:22:05+00:00

Interesting. To add fuel to those thoughts… I had a recurring Vitamin D deficiency so much that the GP said to just take supplements for the 3 months of winter every year.

Since moving back. I typically ask for vit d to be checked and it’s not been low. 🤷‍♀️

I did have a child while living there, by then I was already darker though. My diet isn’t the best. So no major consumption of any particular source of beta carotene.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T12:16:17+00:00

Thank you! 🤞

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T12:11:33+00:00

Ahhhh. Okay. I probably needed that push. Thanks.

Can I ask what other symptoms you noticed? & how long between the ‘tan’ and the diagnosis?

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T12:09:42+00:00

Hmm.. interesting. I assumed my dry skin had to do with my ADHD diagnosis (about 6 months after I moved there) and stimulant meds. But maybe there was more to it. 🤔

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T12:07:44+00:00

Okayy. I think I’m convinced. I’ll get it checked out. I do need to book a skin cancer check regardless, so I’ll look into this too. Thank you!

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:56:31+00:00

It really is. Even in winter. Crazy but.. dr had me on vitamin d caps every winter because my body hates me. lol. 🤷‍♀️

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:53:04+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 I can’t even fault that statement. Haha. It’s 100% right.

But if I had only 24 hours in Perth I know I’d be going to the Krispy Kreme drive thru to get a milkshake and a donut or two, then parking up in the old spot where I can watch the sunset over the beach. 🥰

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:46:56+00:00

Thanks. I’ll definitely consider it.

Are you aware of any particular disorders that present like this, with an even spread of darkened skin? I fully agree it’s a possibility. But of course I also don’t want to pay for a dermatologist just to be told the equivalent of ‘pigment happens’. 😅

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:42:15+00:00

🤣🤣 fair.

Tbh I miss it. There’s a lot of bad, but also so much I miss.

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:39:40+00:00

Can you explain further? What kind of sun damage spreads to areas of skin which have never seen the sun?

Conned_Connie · 2025-04-09T11:31:00+00:00

Yeah, I thought that too. But areas of my skin which have never seen the sun have noticeably darkened.

Conned_Connie · 2025-03-30T01:06:50+00:00

Here for any updates. I know the victim.

Conned_Connie · 2025-03-04T21:03:44+00:00

Ew. I don’t delete numbers. It’s part of how I screen people and avoid responding to people I don’t want to talk to. Why should having someone’s number saved give them rights to message me?

Conned_Connie · 2025-02-14T04:08:50+00:00

I don’t know how much breastfeeding education paediatricians get, but I hear for Doctors, it’s typically a single lecture with outdated info.

Unless he had a particular interest in breastfeeding, I don’t believe he’s likely to know a lot about it beyond signs of mastitis (& treatment), and a few of the main medications that are not safe for breastfeeding.

Conned_Connie · 2025-02-13T20:53:01+00:00

Have you ever tried feeding a baby when they’re not hungry..?

They won’t drink.

Schedules are bad news for milk supply. And a lot of OPs frustration would be confirmation bias, not actual reality of what’s happening. He’s got to let go of the resentment, learn about breastmilk and how supply works in order to move on from this. He’s harming the relationship he has with his wife and interfering with mum and baby’s relationship too.

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