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You glance at an old photograph maybe from a few years back and something strikes you. Your skin tone looks noticeably different from how it looks today. Not dramatically so, but enough to make you pause. You cannot point to a specific event or turning point. Nothing happened. It just... shifted, gradually, over time. This is a very common experience, and it can feel quietly unsettling. Skin tone changes that happen slowly are easy to miss in the moment, but the cumulative ef