So hopefully it is finally getting warmer! Or at least it's getting closer...
I will admit that I used to get extremely concerned about having a suntan in the summer. Actually make that about 4 summers. If you have ever seen my UT ID photo it would make sense. I was a lifeguard for 4 years which also overlapped my job as a summer league swim coach. I sometimes was out in the sun from 8 am until 9 pm and the first thing on my mind was not skin cancer!
I will say that I have never been a fan of tanning beds-they gross me out to the nth degree. Sweaty people all laying on the same surface...no thanks. So I have that going for me! But I do have a family history of skin cancer on both sides of my family. And more recently, my dad has had skin cancer removed on two occasions. This has been a little alarm going off in my head reminding me that I hate needles and do not want any scars!
So all this to say I have been trying to take better care of my skin than I did my first 20 years! And I have done much better with the exception of getting burned on a cruise last spring. It seems silly to me now that I put myself in danger just to have a suntan. If ever I wish I was nice and tan, I think about people you might see on a magazine that are fair-skinned and fabulous-like Reese Witherspoon! She is beautiful with her white-ness and I love it!
so put on your spf 3o because being all bronzey isn't worth it:)
