Cosmopolitan USA May 2013
When Asian girls try to be as pale as Snow
White, Europeans/Americans tan their best to get sugar Brown. While knowing whitening
skin products ranking top sale due to most Asians want to pop up their facial
features, highlight the colourful cosmetics, and look more like ‘exotic westerner’,
it’s quite astonishing to read on Cosmopolitan May issue article ‘Are You a
Binge Tanner?’ by Nicole Catanese. A lot of North Americans want to ‘look 10
pounds thinner’ since ‘a darker skin tone reflects light off skin evenly and
can give an insta-skinny illusion’ and ‘teeth and eyes look brighter when
offset with a tan’ (p.218). It is quite recognizably known that ‘beauty is in
lovers’ eyes’, but since Catanese points out that ‘Tan is beautiful’ due to ‘watch
any awards show or open any celebrity weekly and there’s no question where
society stands today’, which, those sentences still portrait the ‘tanning beauty’
concept is based on constant peer competition, a fashion trend, more a skin-deep
idea than a true belief.
According to Stanford Cancer Institute
research, 73% that females increase risk for basal-cell carcinoma when lying in
a sun-tanned bed 6 times in a year, and for women ages 18-39, melanoma
diagnoses are up an 800% amount (p.218). While quite some readers confess that the
addictiveness to tanning salon is much more healthier than taking alcohol or drugs,
we have to question if craving for sun yet an another kind of suicide, but a
bit brighter way?? For Nordic views, while sunshine hours only last 26 hours
monthly in December, it’s a demanding need to take a certain amount of natural
ultraviolet in summer time, since many Finns suffer Fat-deficiency
Dermatitis or SAD in winter season, even though
Finnish milk contains Vitamin D based on EVIRA (Food Security Bureau of
Finland) law.
So, to tan or not to tan? That’s a big
question. Nevertheless, there is alternative way to get glow and shine, but you
just have to fake it. L’OREAL self-tanning mist, St. TROPEZ Bronzing Mousse or
CLINIQUE face tinted lotion can give you a lot of wrinkle-mole-free bakes. For
me, healthy skin is more essential than chasing certain tone. I prefer beach
activities to mountain climbing, so I would brush myself CHANEL VITALUMIÈRE ÉCLAT (SPF 10)before
going out, and take a long-sleeves shirts with me, and put on light layer of
SPF lotion every 2-3 hours. Parasol? Out. Ray Ban? Check. Straw hat? In! Physical
sun-blocking is better and safer than chemical method, eh!
Works
Cited and Photography:
Catanese , Nicole. ‘Are You a Binge Tanner?’
COSMOPOLITAN USA May 2013. New York: Hearst, 2013. P.217-21.
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