Fitzpatrick Skin Types Scale
What is your skin type?
Fitzpatrick phtotype scale is a most commonly used classification of a person's skin type developed in 1975 by Harvard Medical School dermatologist Thomas Fitzpatrick, MD, PhD. The sacale classifies skin types by their response to the sun exposure and deegree of burning and taining.
## Fitzpatrick Skin Types Scale
Skin Type | Characteristics | Origin
:-----------|:------------------| -------------------:
**Type 1** |Highly sensitive, always burns,
never tans |Scandinavians,
Celtic
**Type 2** |Very sun sensitive, burns easily,
tans minimally| Caucasians
**Type 3** |Sun sensitive skin, sometimes burns,
slowly tans to light brown| Darker Caucasians, Central Europe
**Type 4** |Minimally sun sensitive, burns minimally,
always tans to moderate brown| Caucasians, some Hispanics,
South Mediteranian, South Americans
**Type 5** |Sun insensitive skin, rarely burns, tans well| Middle Eastern, Asia,
some Hispanics, South Africans
**Type 6** |Sun insensitive, never burns, deeply pigmented| African, Afro-American
## Skin types and UV Index
For [UVIMate](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.aershov.uvmate) we use the following table to calculate your safe sun exposure time without sunscreen based on a Skin Type:
Skin Type | Max Time in Sun (min)
:-------------|:------------------
**Type 1** | 166 / UVI
**Type 2** | 200 / UVI
**Type 3** | 266 / UVI
**Type 4** | 333 / UVI
**Type 5** | 533 / UVI
**Type 6** | 1000 / UVI
Alex Ershov
Founder of UVIMate - Sun Safety Coach and UV Index Forecast app
Alex is a dedicated NodeJS/.NET technomad with 10 years of hands-on experience in digital media, e-government, telecommunications and print/mail production automatization areas. DevOps practitioner and energetic Knowledge Management evangelist.
