I wish I could teach you the power of Sunscreen

I wish I could teach you wearing sunscreen is one of the healthiest decisions you can make for your body, your face in particular. Don't make the same mistakes many others have made in their quest for a golden tan because no matter how important it may seem in your teens and 20s, when you are 30 it will already have begun to take its toll in the form of wrinkles and spots.

If you have ever read a beauty magazine, walked into a drugstore with its array of beauty products or just live on the planet, you have heard by now that wearing sunscreen is vital to protecting against skin cancer, ugly brown spots and WRINKLES! Why, oh why, did someone not drill this into my head sooner and force feed my face sunscreen?? Now, after scouring magazine after magazine and web pages galore for the antidote to a wrinkle free face, it is sinking in that sunscreen is the key, not trying every wrinkle and anti aging cream available. But now it is too late, I cannot turn back the hands of time but I can become a sunscreen devotee. While I know how sunscreen works, a tiny part of me hopes by putting sunscreen on, my face will get the message that I am no longer in a quest to damage it and immediately repair its increasingly wrinkled appearance. I would like to think of sunscreen as a stain remover, works instantly on contact and even better after being massaged around a little bit. Unfortunately, that is not the way it works. What is done, is done and only time and money can fix those deep ruts with retinoids, antioxidants, microdermabrasion, fillers, etc.

While sunscreen may not have magical powers, it is certainly a miracle cream. Diligence with sunscreen will stop the break down of collagen by the sun and prevent new members of the wrinkle family from showing up on your face. Take the time now or you will be looking at yourself in the mirror 10 years down the road wondering how a girl who used to be mistaken for years younger than her age could morph into someone who cannot help but be allured by all the Botox and Restylane ads screaming youth.

If there is one thing I could teach you it would be this: No matter how "gross" your face may feel with a load of sunscreen piled on, how unnecessary the extra step in an already never ending line of other facial steps may seem or how luxurious a tanned face may look (there is self-tanner to remedy that!), do not wait until your 30s to take action because I can guarantee while you are tossing money at your dermatologist because of your past tanning addictions, your sun-conscious friend will be wrinkle-free and sporting a brand new pair of Louboutins and a gorgeous lambskin Chanel bag with all the money she saved from not needing all the youth creams, anti-aging concoctions and unnecessary injections you now depend on so dearly.