Dr Vanita Rattan - Skin Revolution: The Ultimate Guide to Beautiful and Healthy Skin of Colour

Left hand column, third row Dr Vanita Rattan

To my skin-of-colour family,

I am honoured and grateful to have been able to serve you.

For those of you who have followed me on social media and have seen my ups and downs firsthand, thank you so much for being my support system. If it wasnt for you, this book could not have been written. You helped me on Instagram with some of the largest polls ever conducted for skin of colour. You helped me choose which chapters to write and even indicated the style in which you wanted the written teaching to be. You allowed me to be open and vulnerable online, which gave me the confidence to reveal so many of my own experiences and faults without feeling embarrassed.

My aim is to empower my global family to buy skincare safely without damaging your skin barrier, to avoid expensive marketing traps and to give our children the correct education about their skin so they have the confidence to live their dreams.

Having investigated hundreds of skincare brands, I was shocked at how little there was for my skin of colour family. It also didnt feel fair that there wasn't enough information for us to be able to educate ourselves. This is why I have dedicated my life to people with skin of colour globally; to ensure you have the best skin of your lives and you dont waste your hard-earned money on ineffective products.

Ive worked extremely hard on this book to make it the number one resource for men, women and children with skin of colour across the world. I hope you find it useful and that I made you proud. As you know, I have never accepted sponsorship and I never will honest research and education is my love letter to my skin of colour family.

I promise I will continue to research, educate and do the best I can for all of us. All my love always,

Dr V xxx

Understanding the complexities of skin of colour is both a science and an art. Dr Vanita has managed to make a very difficult subject easy, fun and enjoyable to learn in this labour of love. I am so excited for all of the enthusiasm and inspiration this book will create in young skin of colour future physicians, scientists and entrepreneurs.

Dr Alexis Stephens DO, FAOCD, FAAD

Founder and CEO of Parkland Dermatology, Award-winning Board Certified Dermatologist, Beauty Chemist, Cosmetic, Medical and Skin of Colour Expert

Welcome to our Skin Revolution. I hope that this book will radically transform your approach to skincare by providing you with the tools to decipher the ingredients within products, discount the marketing hype on the packaging, demystify your skins chemistry and empower you to do right by your skin throughout your lifetime.

Approximately 5 in 7 people in the world have skin of colour. We are a global majority.

Despite this figure, five-sevenths of skincare products do not cater to skin of colour. In fact, we struggle to find products suitable for our skin. I have analysed over 150 brands for my unsponsored YouTube channel to decode the ingredients list and let you know if the product being reviewed is suitable for us or not. So far my channel has had 30 million views in just one year, with requests for me to test new products coming in from viewers all the time, which shows just how much this information is needed and how hard it is to find.

Skin Revolution has one mission at its heart: to provide much-needed tender loving care to the skin of colour community.

It is no secret that our skin shades are underrepresented in beauty and fashion, but our melanin-rich skin is beautiful and should be treated as such.

This book is the result of over a decade of study and research that I have undertaken in the formulation of skincare products specifically for skin of colour. This information took hundreds of thousands of pounds in research and failed clinical trials. It has cost me many sleepless nights, which has felt lonely at times. However, out of that pain and frustration I identified the most effective ingredients for skin of colour, the correct percentages and how to combine them so that our global skin of colour family receives the best for our skin. Although some people have asked if I am completely sure I want to share my insider secrets from making these products in case they are used by cosmetics competitors I have never been more certain in my response: 100 per cent, yes.

I am here to serve my skin of colour family you, the readers of this book across the world. I hope to present you with education and empowerment about the choices you are making for your skin. By lifting the curtain on the skincare industry, Im handing back power to you, the consumer. This is the reason why I started my YouTube channel in 2019: Dr Vanita Rattan Dedicated to Skin of Colour.

The information in this book is my answer to the hundreds of queries sent in by followers of my channel, who want to better understand how to take care of their melanin-rich skin.

Skincare products can sometimes be mystifying and overwhelming, with product promises, patch tests, timelines for visible results and an infinite array of creams, gels, oils and toners on offer.