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There was an article this week in the Star Ledger about just this. After several years of finally getting through (so it was thought) that not being tan is fine, they're back to wanting tans.
As a teen, I was intent on being as brown as can be( i'm pretty fair-very pink), so from April to October, would lay outside, usually on the roof of my parents shed. Baby oil was used, both as a protectant and to glean more rays. (Tanning beds didn't exist then, I don't think)
Now? I have enough skin damage that when anyone even mentions trying to get a tan, I show them an arm. Marked, crepey and freckled. Legs are freckled and crepey. I am only lucky that my face, being so incredibly oily, did not suffer the same fate. My sister in law, 3 months younger than I, spends every summer at her beach house-she looks much older than me. My father and brother have both had melanomas removed-I have to have every mole checked every year and have had quite a few suspicious ones removed.
They won't listen. These poor girls will continue to find ways to make themselves "prettier" because of some false standards set up by mass media. And they will kill themselves in the name of perfection.
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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.
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