In a fashion and youth conscious society, even men are starting to worry about their appearance when they see those first little lines encroaching on their faces, whether it's the deep lines of worry around the mouth, or wrinkles in the forehead from frowning. Many people try to beat the aging devil off with every trick at their disposal, forgetting that there are some things you simply can't cream or buff away.

Good skin care is important of course, and that includes many things, such as limiting your exposure to the sun, good hygiene practices, environmental factors, and even whether you smoke or not.

The one thing you can't control, is the color of your skin. Darker tone skins tend not to wrinkle as early, or as much, if all other factors are equal. The pigment and lipids in darker skin, helps to diffuse the intensity of such things as sunlight, which is drying and destroys the collagen in your skin, faster.

On the down side of things, darker skinned people, particularly those of African ethnicity, have a very difficult time if they choose hair removal via laser treatments. Because the pigment will diffuse the intensity of the laser, it often takes more treatments to achieve the same effects it does on someone with lighter skin, thereby increasing the cost.

But light-skinned people don't get all the breaks. They tend to sunburn very easily, especially those with red hair, and a blush on someone who is fair, is generally much more visible.