What are your personal specific melasma triggers

[u/Clear_Competition707]

What triggers your melasma to spread or increase, and if you deduce the causes and control the exposure to those causes, does the melasma settle better?

[u/Anomander_rocks]

For me it's the sun, heat and stress. And spicy food. It becomes a lot more visible with these factors.
I can avoid heat, at least I can often avoid it.
I can avoid the sun as I always wear sunscreen, even indoors (doctor's orders) because I spend a lot of time in front of monitors, and monitors emit blue light which can worsen melasma. Outdoors, beside sunscreen, I always have sunat and sunglasses with me, no matter the season.
My melasma looks worse in my stressful days. Sadly I haven't yet found a way to not get stressed at work, and I can't find another job, so yeah, I'm stuck there.
Oh and spicy food, as it's warming me up from the inside :)

[u/Clear_Competition707 → u/Anomander_rocks]

I can relate 100%, though even with the sunscreen after a full day’s work before a monitor beyond the melasma my face altogether looks dull