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The Shocking White Hair

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Hair and Pigmentation

The colour of our skin and hair is determined by the relative proportions of black melonine, or the u melonine. The more yellowy orange melonin, or the fio melonin will determine hair and skin colour. People tend to gray first, if theyare men, around the temples,. whereas women, perhaps in the frontal area of the scalp are the last to go gray. And that may well reflect different levels of melan cite reserves from the stem cells on the scalp.

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