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Ladies (and gents!) listen up! Sunscreen is not just for our fairer counterparts. African American skin burns just as easily, and now that the weather is warming up and the layers are beginning to come off, it's essential to discuss the importance of wearing sunscreen. Going outside without sunscreen is not only damaging for your skin, but it also puts you at risk for cancer. May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, so it's only fitting that BV gives you helpful tips on how to prevent skin cancer and sun damage to your skin.
Using sunscreen daily can help prevent skin cancer as well as photo-aging, which gives the appearance of aging. Leaving your skin exposed to the harmful effects of the sun can make you susceptible to developing "sun spots," which tend to be harder to treat for women of color. You can kiss your even complexion goodbye, too, because sun damage is known to create uneven pigmentation, a huge factor in premature aging of the skin.
All of these issues can easily be avoided by applying a UV protective moisturizer with an SPF of 15 or higher daily, even on cloudy days. Are you convinced that you need sunscreen in your life yet? Here at Black Voices, we've taken the liberty to compile a list of a few sunscreen products to try.
Aveeno Active Naturals Ultra-Calming Daily Moisturizer, SPF 15 ($16.99, aveeno.com)
Biore Skin Preservation Dual Fusion Moisturizer, SPF 30 ($14.99, ulta.com)
Kiehl's UV Protective Everyday Facial Moisturizing Cream SPF 15, ($30, kiehls.com)
Lancome Bienfait Multi-Vital SPF 30 Lotion ($45, macys.com)
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By: Eugenia Russell Hargrove on 5/11/2010 8:23PM
When I saw how UV rays age the skin (including people of color) I now include sunscreen on my face, hands and neck as part of my regular beauty regiment. Thanks for the sharing this important information to others
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By: lili on 5/12/2010 8:04PM
OMG OMG OMG THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I have been trying to find a suncreen for years. Its so sad because I would ask around (african americans) and no one of color could help me. They would actually look at me like I was crazy. I would just end up talking to white people about it so sad, right. Yet and still i new that there skin wasnt like ours so I didnt fully trust the product they would recommend. So thank you BV
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By: Dianne on 5/12/2010 11:30PM
Although Bienfait by Lancome has changed some in HOW IT IS PACKAGED, and twice the price from when I last used it on a daily basis,what I would look for in order to be sure it was the workable product that I remember was the factor that was not colorless. No, not at all, NOT one of those creamy white moisturizers but instead a delicate color that served as a light substitute for makeup which you don't want in summer anyway, as well as being a moisturizer and sun protectant. When I say light and/or delicate color don't mistake me. This comes in the graduated darker complexion shades of the spectrum as well as the light beginning range that provides a little color to Caucasian complexions without resorting to that awful fake suntan pre-coloration that looks vaguely orange and inevitably has an uneven result.
Lancome is balanced in attitude and keeps you natural.
But I am surprised that it wasn't mentioned that Kielhs also has a small plastic bottle of liquid rather than cream sunscreen that is also your makeup base, light-weight, by the same name, which tucks into your purse in case you want to start over by cleaning your face at some point in the summer day and re-makeup. It runs about five dollars less and comes in three deepening shades, not as big a range but quite simple as thorough sunscreen with basic color.
The sunscreen of all sunscreen however that I use every day is a liquid in an exotic turquoise blue bottle with an orange-yellow flip-clip tight lid by Shiseido. You add a small tube (same color) of eye cream to protect the delicate eye area from under the eyes to carefully up to your eyebrows and patiently , skillfully, little-finger into the corner next to your nose. The second to last finger usually has more control than the smallest in applying anything, unless you have large fingers. It has an SPF 55 for the liquid and the eye-cream is SPF 32. Perfect for anyone who had sun-poisoning as a kid,by being outside all day, probably to go swimming.
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