The National Cancer Institute predicts

Despite being bombarded with scary statistics The National Cancer Institute predicts that changer there will be more than one million new cases of skin cancer in the US in 2010. Despite being bombarded with scary statistics like this, I still see an awful lot of girls with gorgeous cafe au lait skin wandering around. And yes, my eye is still trained to think it looks good. I can’t help it. Mind you, it should be a golden tan–think Gisele–not a nuclear one (Hi, Snooki!).

I long ago gave up tanning. I’m blonde and pale, worried about cancer, and also exceptionally vain. Wrinkles, are much worse than pale skin, you know. So I valiantly apply my SPF 75 and have embraced my porcelain hue.

I’ve never tried tanning products, though I was briefly tempted by those tanning salon misting machines. Then a I saw a friend come out looking like a pumpkin.

A company recently sent us a self-tanning gadget to try, but I couldn’t bring myself to use it. I’m changer usually game for testing out gimmicky jeans or putting any sort of goo into my hair, but a home airbrush tanning machine? It’s just weird.