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I have been asked to write a little weekly column for Glam. com, here is the first one!
Sunscreen is the most important beauty item you can have in your beauty cabinet. There, I’ve said it – there’s no need for further debate. All of the Shu Uemura Basic Mascara and the divine Estee Lauder High Gloss Lip Gloss won’t hide the very un-beautiful things that the sun can do to your face in the long term. My favorite new sunscreen find this year is the Solar Protection Pads, by Stallex – they have an SPF of 30, are not greasy at all, and best of all they come with a little case that is sooooo easy to throw in your purse and apply in the event of a last minute outdoor lunch or invite to have a cocktail by the pool! This year, even if it may not help the years of past abuse I have given my skin, I am wearing sunscreen. Will you wear it too?
Hey Ninjarina – thanks for the comment! I am sure you are right in your musings. People from different ancestral backgrounds definitely have a measure of more or less natural protection from the sun depending on where they were from. Speaking as a fair skinned gal, and one who has already had one bout with skin cancer, I must use sunscreen religiously. I am envious of those who don’t have such a need (and have beautiful skin instead of skim milk colored skin – eww!).
LBB – good girl! My weekend has been good – I took off of blogging work on Friday, but did read your post, thanks so much for the mention! I will get around and share my thoughts ASAP.
Yes ma’am, of course I wear sunscreen. Although I am an Irish Italian mix, my skin screams white pasty Irish skin! I burn without my Country Bunny sunscreen. Plus, quite a few people I know, both family and friends, have gotten a skin melanoma. Bad bad bad.
Anyway, hope you are having a fabulous weekend…and I mentioned you in my Retro-Beauty post yesterday, did you see?
xoxo
I’m all for sunscreen but I always get the nagging feeling that this whole sunscreen thing is just to sell more sunscreen. I don’t think it takes into consideration women of colour whose ancestors originate from a place where they might have been more “sun tolerant.” I mean if your ancestors came from Africa and you move up to England, I don’t even know if it’s healthy to use so much sunscreen
My mother always made sure I wore sunscreen and reapplied when I was going to be out in the sun a lot but if I’m stuck in an office all day and I see the grand total of about 30 minutes of sun (I work indoors), I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be faithfully applying it every two hours.
My musings are just speculative and I do think everyone needs to wear sunscreen if they’re out on the sunny beaches all day but for many people day to day, I hardly think one needs to be too faithful to the two hour rule.
My favourite is Shisheido BTW as they’re the only company that specialises in Asian skin and it doesn’t have a greasy feel or that weird sunscreen smell.