I have gone on a rant before about tanning. The bad stuff.....
I received my AAA Magazine this month and another writer has called to our attention, the reason sunscreen is essential. I will tie all of this in with fashion. Tanning is an obsession with many ladies and gents, and if they are "pale" apparently, they can't go out. I am getting the same way! Well, there is a lovely thing called cellulite that most women get whether they want it or not, and if your pale, it REALLY shows. This kind of screws with my wearing shorts and pale legs since it has shown it's ugly self on thee back of my legs. Whatever. My point is, I have embraced 10 minutes of sun on my legs, each side, just my legs, like....3-4 times a week. I can read a book while I do this. And for me, a little touch of sun gives me some color!
With the long example of my major hypocrisy aside, here's what pisses me off.
Nowadays, YOU HAVE TO WEAR SUNSCREEN! More than 2 million Americans are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer every year. Melanoma is the deadliest form with 8,700 deaths last year. So, you have to wear sunscreen and for the love of GOD stay out of tanning booths. There needs to be a Surgeon Generals warning pasted on every window of every tanning salon in the world, warning users that just 10 minutes in a tanning booth, is the equivalent of 8 hours in the sun without sunscreen!
I digress.
Here in the United States, the attention to skin cancer and needing to wear sunscreen is definitely being paid. It is recommended that you use a shot glass worth of sunscreen anytime you put it on- that being about 2 ounces. If a bottle of sunscreen is 10 oz. That lasts me maybe 5 days, if I only apply once a day. Applying once a day is frowned upon. With the shot glass recommendation, that is only a third of what you SHOULD use in a day. With sunscreen anywhere from $7 to $15 a bottle, how the FUCK am I supposed to keep my self from getting any form of skin cancer when the one thing that is being so highly recommended for protection, rapes my wallet?! Riddle me that!
I guess I'll just stay inside.
I received my AAA Magazine this month and another writer has called to our attention, the reason sunscreen is essential. I will tie all of this in with fashion. Tanning is an obsession with many ladies and gents, and if they are "pale" apparently, they can't go out. I am getting the same way! Well, there is a lovely thing called cellulite that most women get whether they want it or not, and if your pale, it REALLY shows. This kind of screws with my wearing shorts and pale legs since it has shown it's ugly self on thee back of my legs. Whatever. My point is, I have embraced 10 minutes of sun on my legs, each side, just my legs, like....3-4 times a week. I can read a book while I do this. And for me, a little touch of sun gives me some color!
With the long example of my major hypocrisy aside, here's what pisses me off.
Nowadays, YOU HAVE TO WEAR SUNSCREEN! More than 2 million Americans are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer every year. Melanoma is the deadliest form with 8,700 deaths last year. So, you have to wear sunscreen and for the love of GOD stay out of tanning booths. There needs to be a Surgeon Generals warning pasted on every window of every tanning salon in the world, warning users that just 10 minutes in a tanning booth, is the equivalent of 8 hours in the sun without sunscreen!
I digress.
Here in the United States, the attention to skin cancer and needing to wear sunscreen is definitely being paid. It is recommended that you use a shot glass worth of sunscreen anytime you put it on- that being about 2 ounces. If a bottle of sunscreen is 10 oz. That lasts me maybe 5 days, if I only apply once a day. Applying once a day is frowned upon. With the shot glass recommendation, that is only a third of what you SHOULD use in a day. With sunscreen anywhere from $7 to $15 a bottle, how the FUCK am I supposed to keep my self from getting any form of skin cancer when the one thing that is being so highly recommended for protection, rapes my wallet?! Riddle me that!
I guess I'll just stay inside.
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