Over exposure to the sun causes:
- Fine lines and deep wrinkles
- Freckles
- Discolored areas of your skin, called mottled pigmentation
- Benign tumors
- actinic keratosis (Pre-cancerous)
- basal cell carcinoma (cancerous)
- squamous cell carcinoma (cancerous)
- melanoma (cancerous)
- skin lesions - caused by loss of the skin's immune function
- Elastosis (the destruction of the elastic and collagen tissue-causing lines and wrinkles and overall sagging of your skin)
- Telangiectasia (the dilation of small blood vessels under your skin)
- Sallowness (a yellow discoloration of your skin)