I am a 45 year old African- American woman. I would say I am very healthy and seems like everyone my family is the same as well. But I wake up in the morning and I look at myself in the mirror. I believe I have something serious going on. I realize everyday that my lips are turning a bright pink color. As if I was being skinned in a sort of a way. I’ve been very concerned and worried about my body and why it is doing this. I have even gone as far as to visit my family doctor. His response was to use chap stick with sunscreen. Yet, I received to information and none of my questions were answered of my concern. Why exactly is this being caused? It is my race/color? It is a skin deficiency? I have tried to do my research on this topic as well. At first I thought it to be melanoma. I am very unsure. It has come to a point that I find it hard to look at my face in the mirror because when I see my lips I am reminded of the images that I could turn into. I am starting to notice the same effect on my niece and now I am even more worried. Could this be genetic? There are a million questions that run thru my mind and some of them out of fear. If this keeps getting worse, I will be forced to remove myself from the social world.