Thus, take care of your skin.
In this day and age, we've all heard what happens to those that don't moisturize, that don't apply a daily SPF, that spend hours in the sun frying themselves in delicious-smelling oils to procure the darkest (and most dangerous) of tans. We know that it results in wrinkles, cancer, pigmentation, more cancer, a loss of elasticity and more bloody cancer.
I have to come clean. From my sophomore year of high school until about a year and a half ago, I was a Tanning Girl. I hit the beds 3-4 times a week, sometimes daily if I was getting ready for an event (Homecoming, Prom, first summer vacay weekend at the lake, etc.). I didn't use sunscreen daily and I only sporadically applied when I was laying out or swimming.
Bad, bad, bad.
But bad girls can repent and renew, which is what I've attempted to do.
Now I use a sunscreen on my face and hands daily. And before I leave the gym (and drive home in the late afternoon sunshine with my sunroof open), I dust on a layer of Peter Thomas Roth Instant Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30 (which I swear by- I never burn with this stuff, ev-er). When I lay out (which I still do, so sue me), I apply a broad-spectrum sunscreen to my entire body and reapply every 2 hours (and yes, I still get tan lines- so I'm getting the color without the burn and hopefully greatly reducing my risk of shriveling into a cancerous mound of raisin skin). I use products with vitamins A, C and E (in my day cream), retinol (in my night cream) and hydraulic acid (in my serum). I use an eye cream morning and night. When I want seriously bronzed skin, I go hunting for my calvary of self-tanners.
I'm reformed.
Hopefully, this will offset some of the damage I did to my skin in years past, and help me stay skin cancer (and wrinkle!) free. I do not want to be one of those leather-faced 27 years olds that look 35. Or a 35 year old who looks 55. Or have skin that looks like Lindsay Lohan's (DirtyFace. And have you seen her wrinkly forehead and neck? She look wayyyyy older than her 21-almost-22 years.)
And I encourage you to jump on the Reformation Band Wagon, so we can be wrinkle-free together. ;)
Ta.
savvy
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I have to admit, this totally used to be me: worshipping the sun, living in a tanning bed, and never using sunscreen. But now I do! I get a spray tan every few weeks, and keep up my tan at home with self-tanner. It's more work than hopping in a tanning bed and taking a quick nap :) but it's way better for you!
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