I’ll admit that I wish I was more tan. But what I don’t wish for is skin cancer. I wear overly large Dior sunglasses to keep my eyes (and even more importantly the fragile skin around my eyes) safe from the sun’s evil rays. Yes, summer is fun and the warmth is glorious, but I have a serious bone to pick with our life-giving star for bringing with all its goodness a whole lot of radiation and cancer-causing rays. So, instead of being more tan and, by connection, sexier, I’m stuck looking like a vampire but happily a cancer free one.
For summer, don’t blow years of happiness spent in a hospital for cancer treatment or skin removal sessions when you could just as easily slather on some sun screen and wear sunglasses and a hat. I mean, it isn’t that difficult to plan ahead and lay on the lotion. Its actually a great lifestyle choice and, if you have kids, something they can only learn by watching.
In addition to sunglasses, hats and sunscreen, you can practice not being outside between 11am-1pm, which is when the sun is usually directly above you and thus the strongest and most prone to burning your skin. Afternoon sun is safer, but still dangerous and naturally, its dangerous to be out on cloudy days when you don’t feel the sun but it is still, trust me, penetrating you. The best time to be outside is nighttime, which is what Paris Hilton must have told herself when she started her life of debauchery oh so many years ago. How many times can you wear a sundress out to a nightclub before the paparazzi get bored of the idiocy?—we have yet to find out and she’s been a hot topic for the Cali media crew for oh, at least ten years now.
