What This Site Does Not Do
These are not gaps. They are deliberate limits, and part of how this site works.
This site does not define skin archetypes
Official definitions, boundaries, and formal descriptions of the six skin archetypes exist at skinarchetype.com. This site does not reproduce, restate, simplify, or reinterpret those definitions. The separation is intentional. When interpretation and definition share the same space, interpretation tends to harden into authority. That is not what this site is for.
This site does not resolve personal identity
Reading descriptions of archetypes and recognising yourself in them is not identification. It is recognition — a different thing. This site does not confirm which archetype someone is. It does not arbitrate between two patterns that both feel accurate. It does not resolve the experience of seeing yourself in multiple archetypes simultaneously. That ambiguity is real, and this site allows it to exist without resolving it.
This site does not include diagnostic tools
There are no quizzes here. No assessments. No scoring mechanisms. No tools designed to produce a result. Discussion of how archetypes are identified through self-reported patterns is documented here, but that discussion is not a tool — it is an explanation of a process that happens elsewhere.
This site does not promise outcomes
Nothing on this site suggests that identifying an archetype will improve skin, resolve a pattern, or clarify what someone should do. The framework is observational. This site's discussion of it is also observational. Neither produces clinical outcomes, and neither claims to.
This site does not function as a sales funnel
There are no product recommendations here. No affiliate links. No directed pathways toward purchase or service. The purpose of this site is discussion, not conversion.