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Skin whitening
Skin whitening (skin lightening, skin bleaching) is the cosmetic practice of reducing melanin to lighten skin tone, a $8.8 billion global market driven by colorism and beauty ideals, with hazardous ingredients such as mercury and hydroquinone regulated or banned in the US, EU, and under the Minamata Convention.
Skin Window Technique
The Skin Window Technique, also known as the Rebuck Skin Window Technique, is a lab method developed by John W. Rebuck to study cellular migration during immune reactions since 1955.
Skin-inspired pressure-sensitive electronics
Skin-inspired pressure-sensitive electronics, often called electronic skin (e-skin), are flexible, stretchable sensor systems that detect and map mechanical pressure the way human skin does, for health monitoring, prosthetics, and robotics.
Skin-sparing mastectomy
Skin-sparing mastectomy, first described in 1991, is a breast cancer operation that removes all breast tissue and the nipple-areola complex while preserving about 90–95% of the skin.
Skin-walker
The skin-walker, in Navajo tradition called yee naaldlooshii, is a witch who takes the shape of an animal such as a wolf, coyote, or owl to bring harm.
Skinamarink
Skinamarink is a 2022 Canadian experimental horror film by Kyle Edward Ball, made for $15,000 in his Edmonton childhood home, about two children trapped after windows and doors vanish; it leaked online, went viral, and earned $2 million theatrically.
Skincare (film)
Skincare is a 2024 American psychological thriller, the narrative feature debut of director Austin Peters, starring Elizabeth Banks as aesthetician Hope Goldman. Loosely based on the Dawn DaLuise case, released by IFC Films August 16, 2024, Metascore 61, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Skindred
Skindred are a Welsh ragga metal band formed in 1998 in Newport, fusing heavy metal with reggae, ska and punk. Fronted by Benji Webbe, they topped the Billboard reggae chart with Babylon and reached UK Number 1 in 2026 with You Got This.
Skinfold Thickness
Skinfold thickness: subcutaneous fat measured by pinching a skin-and-fat fold and reading it with a caliper at sites like triceps and subscapular; used for body fat estimation, distinct from BIA and DXA.
Skinhead
Skinhead: youth subculture from working-class London, late 1960s, offshoot of mods with Jamaican ska and reggae influence; later split into racist, traditional, and anti-racist (SHARP) factions worldwide.
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP), founded 1987 in New York by Marcus Pacheco, are anti-racist skinheads opposing neo-Nazi boneheads; two-tone, yellow armband identity, later an individual designation.
Skink
Skinks (Scincidae) are the most speciose lizard family, 1,743 species on every continent except Antarctica, with centers in Australia and New Guinea; ~20% threatened, key threats habitat loss and invasive species.
Skinning
Skinning is the removal of an animal's hide after slaughter, a key meat-dressing step and the start of leather production. Also called dehiding or hide pulling (upward or downward), it is a main point of carcass microbial contamination.
Skinny Dip (novel)
Skinny Dip (2004) is Carl Hiaasen's comic thriller in which marine biologist Chaz Perrone throws his wife Joey off a cruise ship; she survives, is rescued by ex-cop Mick Stranahan, and fakes her death for revenge over his Everglades pollution fraud.
Skinny Fabulous
Skinny Fabulous, born Gamal Doyle, is a soca artist from St Vincent and the Grenadines who won six Soca Monarch titles and the 2019 Trinidad Road March.
Skinny Love
Skinny Love: indie folk song written by Justin Vernon, released 2007 by Bon Iver on For Emma, Forever Ago; Birdy's 2011 piano cover peaked at UK number 17 and reached 737 million streams.
Skinny pig
Skinny pig, a nearly hairless strain of domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) from a 1970s lab mutation; recessive hairlessness, hair only on muzzle and feet, distinct from the Baldwin, needs warm housing and skin care.
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy: Vancouver industrial band formed 1982 by cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre, pioneers of industrial music with albums Remission, VIVIsectVI, Last Rights, The Process; disbanded after 2023 Final Tour.
Skins (2017 film)
Skins (Pieles) is a 2017 Spanish drama and black comedy, the feature debut of Eduardo Casanova, about deformed outsiders including Samantha, Laura, and Ana; it premiered at Berlin Panorama and earned three Goya nominations.
Skins (British TV series)
Skins is a British teen drama on E4 (2007–2013), created by Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, set in Bristol, with the cast replaced every two seasons; remade by MTV in 2011 and cancelled after one season.
Skins game
Skins game: golf format where each hole is a "skin" won by the outright lowest score, with ties carrying over. Also The Skins Game, the 1983–2008 TV event revived on Prime Video in 2025.
Skinwalker Ranch
Skinwalker Ranch, also called Sherman Ranch, is a 512-acre property southeast of Ballard, Utah, in the Uinta Basin, investigated since 1996 for reported UFO, cattle mutilation, and paranormal phenomena, owned since 2016 by Brandon Fugal and featured on History Channel since 2020, with no peer-reviewed reproducible evidence produced.
Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless (John Edward Bayless II, born 1951), American sports columnist and TV debate host; co-hosted ESPN First Take 2007-2016 and Fox Sports 1 Undisputed 2016-2024, now hosts The Skip Bayless Show podcast.
Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!)
Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!) is a long-running shōjo manga by Yoshiki Nakamura, serialized in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume since 2002, about Kyoko Mogami's revenge-driven rise through showbiz; 47+ Japanese volumes, 51 English, 2008-2009 anime.
Skip Brittenham
Harry "Skip" Brittenham (1941-2025) was an American entertainment lawyer, co-founder of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, pioneer of Hollywood's backend profit-participation deal, and adviser on the Pixar-Disney sale and DreamWorks Animation IPO.
Skip Capital
Skip Capital is the Sydney-based family office of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and his wife Kim Jackson, founded in 2017, with investments including Canva and Figma.
Skip Holtz
Skip Holtz (born 1964), American football coach, son of Lou Holtz; head coach at UConn, East Carolina, South Florida, and Louisiana Tech (118-98), then won three straight spring titles with the Birmingham Stallions (USFL 2022-23, UFL 2024) before leaving in December 2025.
Skip Homeier
Skip Homeier (George Vincent Homeier, 1930–2017) was an American actor, a radio and Broadway child star in Tomorrow the World who became a prolific film and TV villain, including two Star Trek guest roles.
Skip list
A skip list is a probabilistic data structure for sorted keys that supports search, insertion, and deletion in expected logarithmic time, introduced by William Pugh in 1990 and used in Redis and LevelDB.
Skip Marley
Skip Marley (Skip Marley Minto, born 1996, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae-pop singer, grandson of Bob and Rita Marley and son of Cedella, known for "Lions," "Chained to the Rhythm" with Katy Perry, "Slow Down" with H.E.R., and the Grammy-nominated EP Higher Place.