À fleurs de peaus is a blog and podcast dedicated to raising awareness and preventing skin cancer as well as sun protection.
This week, raising awareness among young people about unrealistic and dangerous beauty standards when it comes to wanting to tan your skin... at what cost?
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When you're born with a pale complexion, you're milk white and you don't tan (whether you're a redhead or not), there comes a time when you realize you don't fit in.
And like any standard of beauty, when you're too much or not enough, well you get a bunch of degrading comments that sometimes aren't meant badly by the people who say them, but that end up resonating for the person who receives them... more than once.
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For some it happens early in life and for others it is at the arrival of adolescence where we can hear comments like: You look sick, get some sun it would do you good you would look better, you are very white, you look like a ghost...
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And it continues when you come back from a trip, where they tell you: Wow, you're so pale! Did you stay in your room? Have you been sick all week?
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And there, without really realizing it, something inside us settles. We understand that we don't fit in. That there is something different from the others that disturbs and quite naturally the race for a tan has just begun.
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In the case of tanning, there are many alternatives and they are all equally dangerous. Staying in the sun for long hours, going to the tanning salon to keep your tan during the winter or just to tan faster, putting oil in the sun or activator in tanning booths. In short, ready to do anything to change the color of your skin. All this just to be even more tanned.
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When you don't know the harmful effects, you can quickly get stuck in this spinning wheel and do everything in your power to change the color of your skin. Damage it. Burn it. At any cost.
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Despite all the efforts and the associated risks, it remains impossible in the long term and dangerous.
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To begin with, we can stop associating pale skin color with an unhealthy complexion.
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Keep our comments to ourselves regarding anything related to a person's physical appearance, including skin pallor.
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And keep in mind that tanned skin is damaged, burned, attacked skin. Unfortunately, the opposite of being healthy.
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