How to Use melanin in a Sentence

melanin

noun

• There are a few things to know about eczema in melanin-rich skin.
  — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 17 Aug. 2022
• No one's melanin is enough to protect them from the sun's rays.
  — Jennet Jusu, Allure, 2 Mar. 2022
• And so folks with more melanin have sort of skewed results.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
• The light is absorbed by the pigment, or melanin, in the hair itself.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2023
• The lack of melanin causes your hair to lose its color.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 27 July 2023
• Hot pinks, fiery corals, berry, and wine-toned blushes work best for the melanin-rich.
  — Nykia Spradley, Allure, 21 Dec. 2020
• Ahmaud had a broad nose, and the color of his eyes was filled with melanin.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• So what a tan is – is your body produces melanin and melanin is a pigment.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
• Hair removal lasers target the pigment in the hair (melanin).
  — Heather L. Brannon, Md, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• As the name suggests, it’s made with melanin-rich skin in mind, though it can be used across all skin tones.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 8 Mar. 2023
• Ahmaud had a broad nose and the color of his eyes was real, with melanin.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2022
• In addition to the amount of melanin produced, the type matters, too.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• Traces of melanin have even been found in dinosaur fossils.
  — Dianna Mazzon, Allure, 25 Aug. 2021
• This has to do with the amounts of melanin in the outer layers of hairs on different body parts.
  — Sarah Fielding, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
• None of those scales indicates how much melanin a person has in their skin.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• When skin is exposed to UV light, the body produces melanin, a dark pigment made by skin cells called melanocytes.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 28 July 2023
• Melanocytes, which are skin cells that produce melanin, enlarge.
  — Melanie Rud, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• Last, but not least, let your melanin shine through—without any white residue with Black Girl Sunscreen.
  — Noel Cody, Essence, 17 Oct. 2022
• More melanin on the insects' wings can be compared to wearing a black T-shirt on a hot day, CNN reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2021
• All products range in price between $10 to $15, and were developed to address the unique needs of melanin-rich skin.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Green eyes, even more rare than blue, marks a reduced level of melanin, thought not as reduced as blue eyes.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2023
• So does melanin, the pigment that helps determine skin, hair and eye color.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• This piece is part of The Melanin Edit, a platform in which Allure explores every facet of a melanin-rich life.
  — Patia Braithwaite, Allure, 22 July 2021
• The number and size of melanosomes, where melanin is synthesized and stored within melanocytes, is greater in darker skin.
  — Ivette Manners, Allure, 20 Dec. 2022
• Women of color want that melanin to pop without the risk of damaging their skin.
  — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 7 Dec. 2022
• The amount of melanin, or pigment, a person has in their iris determines their eye color.
  — Cari Shane, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2022
• This story is a part of The Melanin Edit, a platform in which Allure will explore every facet of a melanin-rich life.
  — C. Shardae Jobson, Allure, 5 Apr. 2022
• These cells develop in embryos in the same way those in humans do, use the same genetic programs and make the same melanins.
  — Craig Ceol, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
• Again, the melanin is severely lacking or straight up missing.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• But for many of us with lots of melanin, we’ve been flooded with misinformation.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024