Beauty Radar: My Block Skin

The Jamaican Roots Behind My Block Skin’s Mission to Rethink Sunscreen FOR My Block Skin founder Dujon Smith, Jamaican heritage is more than a line in his biography. His mother Cheryl Henry was born in Kingston, while his father Alwin Smith hails from Whitehall in St Thomas. As a first-generation Jamaican American, he says his roots, family and community have long shaped how he moves through the world — and, increasingly, how he approaches beauty.

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The idea for My Block Skin began with a frustration familiar to anyone with melanin-rich skin: Sunscreen that protects the skin, but seemingly changes it in the process.