Articles of category "Fair skin"

The relationship between sunlight and skin cancer are very complicated. Burn protection products have made extraordinary amounts of money by being cleverly marketed to prevent cancer, as opposed to preventing sunburn. On the one hand, there are scientists and medics, warning us about the skin damages. On the other hand - tanned stars, advertising tanning salons or sunscreen. But the problem sounds - to tan or not to tan.

In the 19th century and earlier, being as pale as possible was desirable in certain countries, particularly the United States and some European nations. Everything changed when when the designer Coco Chanel returned from a vacation to the French Riviera with a deep tan and started a new fashion craze. Suddenly, tans were the badges of the rich. But despite the free availability of the sun, some people still can only dream about it. These are fair complexioned people.