• Are UV-Blocking Clothes All They’re Cracked Up To Be? [Body Blog]

    Are UV-Blocking Clothes All They’re Cracked Up To Be? [Body Blog]

    So what’s the latest magical skin cancer prevention product? Turns out there are a lot of them.

  • Here are the Reasons Why I Don’t Tan

    Here are the Reasons Why I Don’t Tan

    After years of lamenting my pasty state, I finally realized: I’m never going to be tan! My skin has always been and will always be pale. Baby, I was born this way.

  • True Story: I Have Melanoma

    True Story: I Have Melanoma

    It was a cold day in November when I got the phone call from the dermatologist telling me my results were back and I needed to come into the office the same day. As I put down the phone, I looked at my boyfriend and nervously laughed and said, “Well that can’t be good.”

  • Body Blog: Good Eating Is Skin Deep

    Body Blog: Good Eating Is Skin Deep

    live for the summer. In the spring, I count down the days until my last final and I miss it terribly during the fall. I love the way the sun‘s rays touch my skin, I love reading novels lazily on the beach, my morning outdoor runs, and enjoying picnics and BBQs. I love the skin-exposing, brightly colored fashions I get to wear.

  • Are Wrinkles Worse Than Cancer?

    Are Wrinkles Worse Than Cancer?

    A new study out of East Tennessee State University found that women (and men – I’m lookin’ at you, Jersey Shore cast) are more apt to listen to warnings that tanning will deteriorate their looks than the boring ol’ cancer threats. While both statements are true – you’re basically asking for skin cancer when you tan, and yeah, those intense, concentrated rays cause wrinkles, sunspots, and leathery handbag hands – the latter is taken far more seriously by habitual tanners.

  • The Know: Towel Yourself Tan

    The Know: Towel Yourself Tan

    For years, my friend Jess has had the perfect tan; always radiant, glowing, never orange, never streaky, never Simon Cowell looking (I mean really, the dude should just wear a sign that reads “Some people choose alcohol, but self tanner is my drug of choice”).

  • Makeup 101: The ABCDE’s of Moles

    Makeup 101: The ABCDE’s of Moles

    Moles helped make celebs like Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford famous. Their moles were sexy little perfectly-shaped beauty marks that everyone wanted to have. And did by picking up the press-on variety at the neighborhood beauty supply store. Unfortunately, though, a mole isn’t just another beauty accessory; it can also be the sign of skin cancer.

  • Body Blog: Save Your Skin

    Body Blog: Save Your Skin

    Back in the day when Speedo one-pieces were cool, I had no interest in tanning. Although I fought through “sunscreen smear down” sessions with my mom, my skin was still, for the most part, shielded from the sun all summer long. It wasn’t until my friends started wearing bikinis and lots of Hawaiian tropic, that my Irish complexion got it’s first taste of sunburn.

  • Is It Worth It?

    Is It Worth It?

    It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. And in the game of Bad Habits, you will always come out a loser. As I laid in a tanning bed, I thought about how this bad habit was going to affect me in the long run. Even though I love the immediate benefits of this vice (golden, sun-kissed skin!), I can’t help but worry about my future as a leather-skinned freak.

  • More Reasons to Celebrate Your Breasts

    More Reasons to Celebrate Your Breasts

    October is the time to think pink as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off today.
    Acc…

  • Everything You Need to Know About SPF

    Everything You Need to Know About SPF

    We’ve all seen the commercials, heard our mothers’ and doctors’ advice an…

  • Feel the Burn

    Feel the Burn

    My mother is 100% Italian. My father, a 100% Irish. My brother got my mother’s olive skin tone: th…

  • The Power of Coffee

    The Power of Coffee

    Every morning I wake up and make a cup of coffee. On my way to work, I drink that cup of coffee while a…

  • Tanning Stories to Make You Sick

    Tanning Stories to Make You Sick

    I have a confession to make now that summer is upon us and the sun is shining every day: When I am rea…