Response to Cameron: Light vs. Dark

After reading what Cameron thought about this I also took some time to reflect on the issue of light and dark in terms of skin color. I am not one for tanning, or using darkening lotions to make it appear that I am tan or whatever. It isn’t natural. I am a firm believer in that natural is better. I think for special occasion and such, dressing up, wearing makeup, or thing like that are ok. But to sit in artificial light to make your skin darker does not seem right. Cameron talked about how being tan may look more attractive in our culture and how she used to use creams to make her appear darker but for what point. Do you really want to people to like you for your unnatural self. I personally would rather someone accept me for me and not a cream. I also look at tanning in tanning salons as very dangerous. Your skin does not want you to do it and it looks disgusting to me. A girl on my floor has been doing a lot of tanning recently and she is beginning to look orange and fake. I don’t know, people can do what they chose, as is the glory of America, but consider getting what you could have done instead when you are lying in a hospital bed with cancer because you wanted to be tan instead of natural.