Beauty Tips For Body Care
I live in a beach-town in Italy and am Italian-American (Swedish and English descent) so that means I have porcelain skin with freckles. I spend most of the summer covered under layers of SPF, and if I can only being out out in the mornings and evenings. Unfortunately, neither of my kids inherited my husband's olive skin. So, I also educate staff at summer centers, school trips and SCOUT about the importance of re-applying SPF. Stores here don't start carrying SPF until mid-June (and that's already too late for us) plus they don't re-order during the summer (so when it runs out, that's it). I'm the crazy lady who empties the drugstore shelf of SPF 50 sunscreen as soon as it comes out so my kids and I can have enough sunscreen to last us to October plus a couple of bottles to start us off in March.SO...I drop off my kids at SCOUT last night and this mom squeals (in Italian)... "wow... you ARE pale!" and then spends the next 30 minutes telling me how if I just spend more time in the sun, like an extra hour each day, my skin can "get used to it" and I can get more color. Now, I'm a polite person so I told her "Yes, but my skin is DIFFERENT form yours. I'm skin type I and you look like a IV. My skin reacts to the sun differently from yours. My skin burns in about 15 minutes of full sun." She wasn't having it. So I just smiled and nodded, while she divulged her master plan to get my skin to darken - which anyone with freckles knows is totally ridiculous (the freckles just get darker... maybe you get a few more).Wish I had been more up-front with her, but I've got to see (and listen to) this lady at least once a week. @@
Girls Blog 2015
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