The theme of each skin can be oriented to fans of the latest recording star du jour, sports personalities or pretty much anything else that might convince a teen to spend a few extra bucks for two or more skins to go with the phone.
And while one African son is finally buried in his home continent there remain the flayed skins of two other individuals who may also be of African origin among the collection of the Darder museum in Spain.
Dev Patel, sex-obsessed Anwar in the first two series of E4's Skins, plays Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire, a former street child from Mumbai in India.
Two years later they're found living off tree bark, wearing animal skins and making nutritional smoothies out of locally gathered herbs and their own urine.