Can people with olive skin have freckles?

Question

Can people with olive skin have freckles?

Answer 1

More so beauty marks that will appear after sun exposure.  

Answer 2

yes! my friend is Italian and has dark olive skin yet she has freckles all over her face!

Answer 3

Absolutely!  Although freckles are not very common on olive skinned people.  I know a lot about freckles, because I think they are totally HOT on girls, and the more freckles a girl has the HOTTER she looks!  Here's a little Q & A all about freckles for you:

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About FRECKLES!

Q. What are freckles?

The simple answer is they are an uneven tan. Your skin color depends on the amount of a pigment called Melanin it contains. The more Melanin you have the darker your skin color. Albinos have no Melanin at all in their skin!

Melanin helps to protect you from the harmful ultraviolet rays in sunlight. When these rays hit your skin, the Melanin cells in your skin respond by releasing their chemicals which darken your skin and protect you better from the sun.

In some people, the Melanin tends to "clump" in areas which appear darker than the skin surrounding them. This is how freckles come about. Melanin is regulated by the MC1R gene, and a variant of that gene is believed to determine how freckly you are. When you spend lots of time in the sun, these clumps of melanin are stimulated to produce more pigment thus you get darker, or even more freckles! The tendency to have freckles seems to be inherited.

Q. Why do females and children seem to have more freckles than men?

My best guess about this is because women and children have thinner skin than men generally do. Thinner skin would not only allow your freckles to be seen easier, but also make it easier for sunlight to stimulate the Melanin Clumps into action.

Hormones may also play a role, as when pregnant women are said to get the "Mask of Pregnancy" which often is associated with more freckles.

Q. Do all skin types get freckles?

Every Race from Blacks to Asians, to East Indians can get freckles; but they are most common on White people. Freckles usually start to appear around the age of 5 years old, and generally peak during the Teenage years. They seem to fade during adulthood, which is probably due to hormonal changes and the fact that adults working jobs aren't outside exposed to the sun as much either.

Freckles ROCK!

Answer 4

Yes, I'm living proof.

Answer 5

I have a few of those. Some on the bottom of my feet.

Answer 6

Yes they can, but it doesn't seem to be as common as lighter skin tones. I have olive skin and i tend to get some freckles on my nose or the thinner parts of my skin when i get a LOT of sun! :))