Getting Naked With Skin

I sat down with Skin, who bares all and honestly tells of the never ending cycle of changing colors.

"I'm really sensitive, you know?
Sometimes she goes outside
and sits and sits and reads poetry.
Or she walks and walks and talks.
Or she plays and plays and loves.
By the end of the day,
I'm red. And dry. and burning.
Within a few days, I peel. I just
flake and peel right off. Sure,
then she cares. Then she applies
those lotions--those "soothing" lotions
that are suppose to prevent this stuff
from happening. Too late.
I'm damaged.
After the top of me peels off,
I turn brown.
She stands in front of that
mirror and looks--looks at herself--
all brown and then she calls herself
"Beautiful."
She's wearing white today so she looks
more brown.
And then I don't know what happens--
but within a few more days,
I fade.
My brown leaves and I turn
yellow.
Then she stands in front of that
mirror again and calls herself
"sickly-looking."

Is brown beautiful?
Is yellow ugly?
Is THIS the end of the world?"