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Pregnancy presents brand new skin issues and challenges for future bikini wear.  It is wise to carefully protect that growing tummy and remember there is another season of life coming when you will want to forget that rounded Madonna look.  That will be more possible if you use Belly Lube® from Healing Leaf LLC as your pregnancy advances.

Note that not all stretch marks are caused by pregnancy.  Stretch marks appear on the body in many different places for a variety of reasons. Quick growth spurts during puberty, repetitive athletic movements, and weight gain are a few other reasons stretch marks may appear. 

Stretch marks occur when the dermis, the middle layer of your skin, is stretched to a point where its elasticity begins to break down.  At this point, microscopic bleeding occurs along with tissue inflammation which gives us the raised reddish purple look of newly formed stretch marks.

As the dermis is stretched, the outer layer of skin, the epidermis, also stretches making it translucent enough that you can see the reddish purple stretch mark forming.  As these marks heal, scar formation occurs, and you have a stretch mark.  Over time the marks fade to a silvery white color that is a few shades lighter than your natural skin tone.  The lighter color occurs because during the overstretching of the dermis, natural collagen production gets disrupted.  This in turn may cause loss of skin pigment producing cells, leaving behind the silvery white streaks.