Over the centuries fashionable has favoured tanned or untanned bodies.
In England when most worked in the fields under the sun pale was fashionable. Women would take arsenic to pale their skin. Not good for the health!
As most people moved to factor jobs away from the sun it became fashionable to show you had time to lay in the sun and gain a tan. Now we know this can lead to skin cancer, is it worth the risk?
It appears that the colour of the skin is away of saying look how well of I am, how attractive I am. Is it still true?
So am I but some people will risk heath for looks. On the other hand if it is not worth the risk (ie. people don not care) then why take the risk? Poison or skin cancer.
I take it your vote would be do not mind?
Well these days I stay out of the sun as such.....
Last year I had skin cancer, one called in situ and the other much more serious in fact as aggressive as it gets! Yes I was one of those people who always thought it only happens in Australia and to someone else... not me surely. Now its 5 years of fingers crossed and 3 monthly checks not to mention a couple of ops!
I still go away still have hols but take so much more care of my skin now lol... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn and practically no chance of Cancer!
Mike
We both hit the factor 40 when we go out in the sun.
Hope you stay free, good luck.
And another one guys.........
Don't forget the bottom of your feet!! A third of UK skin cancer is on the feet as we don't factor them.. soles that is, and then lie in the sun feet up!
Could be more of an issue with some swingers!!!
Just a thought lol.
Mike xx
:doh: I'm fourtysumthin years too early for this post :giggle:
But F.Y.I... I take factor 60 or even higher if I can get hold of it when I hit the sun!
Pale is good. Don't tan. LOL.
Does this mean i should fake it :shock:
Fake it by all means, but why should you have to?