A big issue with girls today is self image. I know a lot of girls my age who tan religiously during the winter so they don't lose their summer glow. A lot of girls think they look bad when they don't tan, and other girls could care less what they look like in the winter. (at least their skin tone anyway). I've gone tanning before, but only because a school dance was coming up soon and I didn't want to look like a pasty white ghost in a formal dress.
The problem I have with tanning is because of the whole skin cancer thing. I'm afraid the girls who go tanning so much will one day have skin cancer mole things all over their body. Also I don't want to look like a wrinkly leathery skinned bat by the time I'm 42. I have really fair skin for the most part, so I have to protect my face so much when I'm out in the sun because my face burns so easily. If I burn a lot in the regular sun, I have to be especially careful when I am tanning.
Another problem I have with girls that tan, is when they do the spray tan thing. I've always wanted to try spray tanning, but every time I see a girl who's gotten one they look like they've been sprayed with orange juice. In the new movie Bride Wars starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson, Hathaway is turned orange when she gets a spray tan for her wedding, because Hudson sabotaged the booth she was in. One day at a football game at my school, my friends and I noticed a girl that had gotten a spray tan. No one was going to say anything about it, but my friend Jordan asked her if she had gotten a spray tan. Immediately the girl's face turned from orange to red, embarrassed because someone had noticed her spray tan. I felt bad for the girl, because I'm sure everyone noticed her new color but was too nice to say anything about it.
I never want to be that girl.
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