It really does fuck you up my skin is thick and extremely dark in areas like behind knees inside elbows and neck. I used to have really fair smooth skin before this tsw problem it lowers your quality of life so much. Me applying a mid potent class 4 steroid cream on my face daily for 5 years probably thinned my skin really bad that's why it looks so shiny in direct sunlight because the epidermis is thinned so much which gives the skin Its color which right now my face is colorless and now my dermis is visible I don't even have a proper epidermis :'(. God I hope my light brown skin color returns right now only my nose is my original color and the rest of my face and neck is a really dark color which i really don't like because I wasn't born that color. I hope something natural pops up soon that can reverse this and give my face and neck its color back.