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I'm half south east asian, and half caucasian. This naturally give me a yellow but pale skintone. When I'm not tanned, the yellow pops out pretty strong which screams asian, obvi I'm not trying to have the asian tax so I try to keep my skin pretty tanned which covers it up. I have mostly the face/bone structure of a caucasian, so skin tone is really crucial for me as it's what's still anchoring me to being "the asian guy".
Discovered carotenoids recently so I've been taking them to try to help this. I've been taking 100,000 UI beta carotene for about 1 month now, and 20mg Lycopene, and 12mg Astaxanthin for about 2 weeks.
From what I can tell I haven't seen any results yet from Lycopene/Astaxanthin, but I have seen decent results with beta carotene. Under perfect lighting my skin tone is almost a halo, it's like a prettyboy orange. Realistically though without fraud lighting it's a lot more yellow-orangish than it is orange, yellow-orange is still a lot better than my natural yellow, but any yellow for me is still falio for me as mentioned earlier. Sometimes i
I've been researching and realized that what I need is more red Carotenoids, not orange (Which may have been obvious lol, since yellow + red = orange). Astaxanthin is mostly cope supplement for skintone and can inhibit DHT at large doses, so that leaves me with Lycopene for maxxing my redness. I came across this chart for lycopene
Which basically says that east asian / mixed have the lowest amounts of facial redness, and experience the largest amounts of change in redness with Lycopene. Massive lifefuel for me. Also, If you look at the change amount relative to the initial facial redness, you'll see that the change in redness is significant (about the same amount of redness as caucasians post change).
I don't know how much lycopene was used in this study, but in anycase I need to maxx my Lycopene to the maximum degree under all circumstances, it's the only thing standing between my falio skintone and halo prettyboy skintone. Red === life, yellow === rope.
After researching everything I could find on the internet regarding Lycopene, it seems there are absolutely 0 negative side affects, and the only limiting factor is tax on kidney as with any vitamin you put in your body. I have an S tier perfectly healthy life style and I'm young so that realistically is not even a limiting factor for me.
Skip here for the important part if lazycel
As of now, I'm planning on taking 200mg-300mg Lycopene daily. Which seems like an absurd amount compared to what anyone else on here has taken (20mg seems to be the agreed dosage amount on here), but there is not a single documented case of any negative sides for high doses on Lycopene or any carotenoid for that matter, ever. The highest documented dose of lycopene I could find on the internet was 120mg, which they had the following to say: “Daily supplements of up to 120 mg of lycopene have been taken safely for up to 1 year”
Has anyone had experience ultra dosing carotenoids? Is there any reason why this might not be safe? <----- with sources cited please, there's a lot of fear mongering on this forum for taking carotenoids in high doses despite any scientific evidence
Discovered carotenoids recently so I've been taking them to try to help this. I've been taking 100,000 UI beta carotene for about 1 month now, and 20mg Lycopene, and 12mg Astaxanthin for about 2 weeks.
From what I can tell I haven't seen any results yet from Lycopene/Astaxanthin, but I have seen decent results with beta carotene. Under perfect lighting my skin tone is almost a halo, it's like a prettyboy orange. Realistically though without fraud lighting it's a lot more yellow-orangish than it is orange, yellow-orange is still a lot better than my natural yellow, but any yellow for me is still falio for me as mentioned earlier. Sometimes i
I've been researching and realized that what I need is more red Carotenoids, not orange (Which may have been obvious lol, since yellow + red = orange). Astaxanthin is mostly cope supplement for skintone and can inhibit DHT at large doses, so that leaves me with Lycopene for maxxing my redness. I came across this chart for lycopene
Which basically says that east asian / mixed have the lowest amounts of facial redness, and experience the largest amounts of change in redness with Lycopene. Massive lifefuel for me. Also, If you look at the change amount relative to the initial facial redness, you'll see that the change in redness is significant (about the same amount of redness as caucasians post change).
I don't know how much lycopene was used in this study, but in anycase I need to maxx my Lycopene to the maximum degree under all circumstances, it's the only thing standing between my falio skintone and halo prettyboy skintone. Red === life, yellow === rope.
After researching everything I could find on the internet regarding Lycopene, it seems there are absolutely 0 negative side affects, and the only limiting factor is tax on kidney as with any vitamin you put in your body. I have an S tier perfectly healthy life style and I'm young so that realistically is not even a limiting factor for me.
Skip here for the important part if lazycel
As of now, I'm planning on taking 200mg-300mg Lycopene daily. Which seems like an absurd amount compared to what anyone else on here has taken (20mg seems to be the agreed dosage amount on here), but there is not a single documented case of any negative sides for high doses on Lycopene or any carotenoid for that matter, ever. The highest documented dose of lycopene I could find on the internet was 120mg, which they had the following to say: “Daily supplements of up to 120 mg of lycopene have been taken safely for up to 1 year”
Has anyone had experience ultra dosing carotenoids? Is there any reason why this might not be safe? <----- with sources cited please, there's a lot of fear mongering on this forum for taking carotenoids in high doses despite any scientific evidence
