연령에 따른 한국인 손 피부색 차이 분석

Abstract

Recently, nail industry trends have been shifting from polish nail to gel nail. Because of the popularity of gel nail, the criteria for customers to choose colors have significantly changed. Therefore, there has been a rising demand for a nail color which goes well with skin color, not with the color of clothes, makes the hand more beautiful. Unlike a face, hand skin color isn’t corrected through makeup. Therefore, it is more difficult to find a color which is well matched with the skin tone. In this sense, the accurate analysis and classification of hand skin color which is the first step in the selection of nail color are required. However, it’s still very hard to find studies on hand skin color. To figure out the characteristics of Koreans’ hand skin color by age, this study analyzed differences in hand skin color by age after measuring the tone of the back of the hand and conducting quantitative analysis against 300 women living in Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongnam. The results revealed statistically significant difference (p.001). As the respondents were younger, a bright skin tone was observed. According to analysis on the distribution by the rank, ‘20s’ was the highest with 46% among those with a bright skin tone within top 100 ranks. In top 300 ranks, in contrast, ‘50s’ was the highest with 46% while ‘20s (8%)’ was the lowest. In terms of a skin tone, there was a considerable difference between ‘20s’ and ‘50s.’ Even though no big difference was found between ‘30s’ and ‘40s,’ a skin tone was brighter in the latter.