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Is there any way to improve elbow pigmentation?
My skin isn't originally white or clear.
To put it nicely, it was a healthy-looking bronze color, but to put it badly, it was always a bit dark.
Maybe that's why I have a lot of dead skin cells and get pigmentation easily, so I think I've always had a complex about it since I was young and didn't know much about it.
I try my best to cover up the parts that can be covered with clothes, but the problem is my elbows.
Since my elbows are exposed in the summer, I get so stressed out.
Even in the middle of summer, I try to cover up as much as possible by wearing a long sleeve shirt or short sleeves, but I can't put my arms down because I'm afraid people coming from behind might look at me, so I always walk around bent over. In the middle of summer, my arms hurt and I'm always sweaty, to the point where I get heat rash.
So when I meet people in the summer, I wear long sleeves instead of short sleeves, but then people around me ask me if it's not hot and why I'm wearing long sleeves, and I have to keep telling them so many things that it's killing me.
It's so hot I'm dying, but I think it's better to choose the hot side than to be embarrassed and wear short sleeves. As I worry about this and that, I become more and more reluctant to meet people and gradually stop making plans.
My biggest concern is pigmentation on my elbows.
And there is also pigmentation on the knees, behind the knees, under the armpits, inside the thighs, and around the mouth.
A friend of mine once asked me in front of him why the corners of his mouth were so dark, and I was so embarrassed that I wanted to go into the ground.
I don't think I'll ever forget that shame.
If you look it up, there are cream-like products and laser treatments, but has anyone tried them or received the treatment themselves?
There are so many different types of lasers that I can't even tell the difference between them.
Or would something like folk remedies be effective?
There are many methods for whitening the face, but it would be difficult to improve pigmentation with folk remedies, right?
Someone told me to try it because they bought it at a Japanese pharmacy, so I tried it every day for about two months, but I don't think two months was long enough and it didn't seem to have improved much.
I'm worried that people will think I'm unkempt and have dirty habits because I'm a grown woman walking around with dark elbows, and I'm also scared that people will gossip behind my back, so I'm cowering in many ways.
If you have ever had laser treatment or know of any way to improve it, please give me some advice.