Everyone's skins is a different color. Your skin color varies based on your race and your family genes and the traits you receive from your parents. Most skin colors are pale, white, tan, brown, or dark black. Have you ever heard of any other skin colors like orange, purple, or even blue. Well I have come across blue people. In Kentucky there is a family there that has blue skin. This did not happen by them dying their skin it is passed through their genes it is hereditary. The blue people were form Appalachian that was isolated form everyone else. The family had a hereditary blood disorder called methemoglobinemia. This disorder was caused my a decreased level of oxygen given to tissues. This caused there blood to be brown which gave their skin a blue color. To get this disorder you would have to inherit two genes which means you would have to receive one trait from each parent. The way they keep this going was they would marry within there family and have children, so first cousins would marry each other or there aunts and uncles to pass it along.
http://www.archives.com/genealogy/family-heritage-blue-people.html
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