If there’s one resolution everyone should have, it’s to make sure they wear sunscreen every day.  Cloudy days, sunny days, summer or winter – it doesn’t matter. A friend posted this on Facebook the other day and I saw it for the first time and felt compelled to share. Obviously millions of others have seen it too, but it’s a message that’s worth repeating.  Often.  Because people don’t think it can happen to them. People don’t think that tanning bed they went to in their younger years did any damage, or that their teenage daughter (or son) that goes to the tanning bed just once or twice will hurt them.   Time to think again.

As someone who has had pre-melanoma not once, but twice, I still need to remind myself some days to wear sunscreen.  I wasn’t a tanning bed user, but spent my summers outside working and ALWAYS was getting my fair skin sunburned, even with some protection – which was obviously not strong enough.  But we also then thought baby oil was going to give us the “best tan”.  Instead it caused blistering and burns and lifetime damage.

I hope you watch and not only save your skin from aging, but save your life from skin cancer.