the possibility of skin cancer < beauty

Tanning is a common practice in our society where mostly women run the risk of getting skin cancer in order to have that perfect glow. When we look at a magazine the women are rarely pale but instead look like they just spent a weekend in Hawaii. Women let society tell them that pale is ugly and tan is beautiful.

While painting on a face of make up or covering up our rolls and cellulite with Spanx can be seen as an absurd practice I believe tanning is so much worse because you are actually endangering your life for beauty. We are not being intelligible bodies when we go into a tanning bed because we are increasing our risk dramatically of getting skin cancer.

Also, the funny thing is about tanning is that while you'll look good when your young tanning actually speeds up the aging process so when you're in your forties you might look much older because of the tanning you did when you were younger. Americans are one of the few cultures that believes that tanning makes you more beautiful in fact cultures where the people have darker skin one is actually considered more beautiful if they have lighter skin. In fact some go to the lengths of bleaching their skin for beauty.