Just curious and wondering if anyone knows the answer to this...
Why is it that people from India, and I guess Pakistan too?, have these darker patches under their eyes?
If memory serves, small kids don't have that, yet as they are around 20, they do.
What is the reason or cause of this? Kind of peculiar as I don't think any other race has this. If nothing else, that skin area is usually lighter, whereas with people from India it is significantly darker?

Not sure I know my brother use to have really dark circles under his eyes.. That was till he got a C-pac machine his was due to not getting enough oxygen when sleeping.. And once he got that and got his sleeping habits leveled out they went away..

My little sister had them due to being anemic hers was a vitamin deficiency.... Which was corrected..

But to be honest have never paid attention to those of a certain nation having the dark circles under their eyes... I just assumed with most it was lack of sleep or a vitamin deficiency...

I don’t know if there’s any fact to my response..but I read once that the color of our skin developed from our bodies being exposed to different climates..maybe because India is a hot, sunshine country the eyes developed darkened circles to limit the glare..kinda like how baseball players smear black makeup under their eyes..?..

That would indeed make sense, but I know of no other people in Asia or anywhere else where the weather is hot and them having these darker skin patches.

Yes, I know certain health issues can affect the colour of the skin there. There's a lot of meridians around the eyes, spleen and kidney as well I think. Skin underneath the eyes is very thin, so anything being off will show very easily. I've always tended to have a bit of bluish shine there, even as a child. I remember at some point my girlfriends sisters and their friends -all in their teenage years- burst out laughing when they saw me, telling me that you're supposed to use eyeshadow on your eyes.
I didn't get the joke, felt horribly awkward though. It wasn't until at least a decade later that I got it, hihi.

But I think with Indians (and possibly Pakistan people, not sure) it's more like they all have it?

I have had the same question about Asian (Oriental)
features..when a Caucasian (or seemingly any other
race) has children with an Asian, the offspring get
the Asian shaped eyes..every time! That is certainly
a strong genetic trait to always come out on top..I
always wondered why.

Though genetics answers these questions.

Their hair his very dark and also very thick. The eyelashes are many, sometimes it looks like eyeliner.

I've no idea why some people appear to have
dark patches.


Due to my European ancestry, I have very pale
white skin...
Except my arms, which appear to be permanently
tanned, even in the Wintertime.

As I spend very little time in the sun, I'm still trying
to figure that mystery out.

I didn't know that, peculiar!
Maybe that has to do with roots going back to Mongolians? Who if memory serves are traced back to be connected to the oldest people on the planet, the first ancestor kind of thing (can't remember exactly). But if that is the case, then it would make sense that those genes are dominant.
Also, not looked it up, but wouldn't there be more people on the planet with Asian shaped eyes? If you think of it, Inuit, Mongolians, Asians themselves, not sure about Polynesians, a bit I think? Could add up to be way more than Caucasians.

Haha, mixed blood? And that all decided to gather in your arms? Sorry, feeling a bit goofy... just a bit

Mixed blood might be it.

Crystal, I am not sure what you are talking about. I work with a number of Pakistanies and East Indians and they do not have what you describe.

I know some who don't have dark circles, and some who do. Likely genetic.

Same with all races.

I think you are on to something and reasons why a genetic trait
is dominant..simply more of it in people historically large
in number.

Exactly !!

It's not the same with all races. And indeed not all Indians have it, however, many do. Reason for not all having it is that there's a huge variety in skin colour and type in India, from almost white to very dark. But it IS a typical thing concerning Indians.

I Googled it, curious, and it's all over the internet, from Indians asking how they can get rid of it to scientific research.
Apparently -as far as my almost asleep brain can understand at the mo- it has to do with different genome in especially skin from Indian people.
They are more prone to having certain skin and pigment disorders than other people.

Quote:"...some skin tones, especially in Asian and Indian subjects, reported to be more susceptible to pigmentation disorders than other human groups."

Reason I thought of this is cos of this cute young Indian woman who works in the local super market. She's always so bright, happy, and quite cute, but it seemed to me that she was getting dark circles, more than before. They're really very dark, which made me wonder why Indians have this.

So indeed there aren't really any other people in the world who have this, mostly Indians.
Apparently Europeans & Africans have another genome type.

From what I gather it's a pigmentation disorder and its occurrence depends on genetic make up.