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Summer Sun Warning: Brits Plan to Fry
A shocking 15% of teenage girls use tanning beds regularly, believing it will make their skin more tolerant to the sun’s rays, a worrying new survey reveals.
And a massive 79% of women use little or no protection when out in the sun – but those who use fake tan are twice as likely to stay safe in the sun.
Despite their desire for a sun-kissed look, 44% of women who wear fake tan say they always use sunscreen (but that still leaves a shocking 56% who don’t), whereas just 21% of women who prefer pale actually protect their skin from the sun, according to the survey of over 1000 women by iVillage.co.uk.
A staggering 32% of these women believe that their skin does not burn, despite 41% of them admitting they have “fair skin”. Just under half claim that they simply forget, alarming when 27% class themselves as sun worshippers. And that figure jumps to 37% among teens.
Despite major health campaigns, a large percentage of the women who claimed never to use sun protection were under 30, with one quarter under 20 years old.
In fact, 22% of teenage girls said they sunbathe at every possible moment, while 15% of teenage girls admitted to using tanning beds, believing that it would make their skin more tolerant to the suns rays.
“We are really surprised to see that women, in particularly young women, are not taking sun care seriously, happily using little or no protection at all on fair skin,” said Ronita Dutta, Editor in Chief for iVillage.co.uk. “But enjoying that sun-kissed look does not mean losing all sun sense. We were really pleased to see that the advent of fake tan also means a better awareness and understanding of the sun’s damaging long-term effect on the skin. Faking it means a healthier attitude to the sun as well as lovely looking skin.”
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Despite fake tanning innovations like the spray tan, or the tanning booth, 84% of women say that their sun-kissed look was less than perfect. Biggest grumbles were turning orange (22%) and streaky legs (62%).
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