In Memoriam.

[logansrogue]

God speed, Clare Oliver. Your message is slowly spreading. I wish you could have been around to see its effect.

You're braver than words can say.

~~*~~

I'm going to honour her by passing on a message.

Tanning - ANY TANNING - is skin damage. Avoid it! UV rays, whether from the sun or a solarium, can give you cancer! Solarias are are usually MUCH WORSE than the sun. The only safe tan, sadly, is a fake one.

The best thing to do is enjoy your natural skin tone. PALE IS BEAUTIFUL TOO!!!

Comments

[elorie.livejournal.com]

Some of us live in lattitudes where our choices are 1) tan, 2) burn, 3) never go outside during the day in the summer. This is what we get, I suppose, for having ancestors with the irresitible urge to traipse around the world and Bother People. I wear sunscreen on a regular basis and a sun hat and I still get a stripey driver tan or I get burned if I'm not careful.

I also own a parasol, and sometimes I use it. It has butterflies on it. I don't feel so much like Scarlett O'Hara as a very short drag queen when I have it, but even in Athens, GA it's a little...much...for some occasions.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

If you try to tan when it's not in your make-up, you end up looking leathery and odd like Lindsay Lohan. Take care of that beautiful milky white skin, my dear.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I live in Perth, Australia. I know *all* about unavoidable tans. Of course some of us can't help but go brown in the summer. But one needs to understand that any sort of tan is skin damage. It's the truth of the matter, whether one likes it or not.

As soon as it gets sunny I wear hats. Hats, sunglasses and SPF 30 daily moisturiser. It's a lot of fuss but I already had to have one mole removed from my breast, I'm not game on having more funny spots turn up on my body.

I actually find long flowing scarves and sarongs very helpful in keeping the sun off. Then again, I'm not adverse to looking like a hippy. LOL!