Did You Know that May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month?
May 19, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Announcements, Beauty, Blogosphere, Cancer, Prevention, Skin, Web, Your Body
Did you know May is Skin Cancer Awareness month? It surely is. And to draw even more awareness to what has become an increasingly pertinent issue, the Beauty & Style channel here at b5media (where I also write) will be hosting a Theme Day centered around this very issue.
Tuesday, May 20, will see links from many of the wonderful blogs over at Beauty and Style, each offering up creative ways on how to protect your skin and raise awareness. Once the collaborative list is posted on the main b5 blog, I will come back here and add the link. Until then, enjoy this post focusing on two celebrities who have made skin cancer awareness a mission of theirs.
And we hope to see you milling around Theme Day tomorrow for some great ideas to care for your skin in style.
***
It’s true, skin cancer is not all that fun to talk about. But it is vitally important we do talk about it. And having two Hollywood A-listers at the helm of skin cancer awareness is a step in the right direction.
Two fabulous celebs, Kristen Bell (of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Marcia Cross (of Desperate Housewives) are two pretty ladies who have sworn to shun the sun and get their glow elsewhere (or not at all).
Ms. Bell signed on to the Glow in the Dark campaign, sponsored by Jergens.com. Jergens will donate $1 for every similar pledge made by the public toward The Skin Cancer Foundation. Jergens, of course, is quite well-known for their Natural Glow self-tanning products.
And the gorgeously porcelain Ms. Cross is embarking on her second year as the spokeswoman for the Olay and ASDS-sponsored program which offers free skin-cancer screenings during May, June and July. For more info on these screenings, which are held at participating dermatologist offices, visit skincancertakesfriends.org.
It’s really quite scary how skin cancer can affect the palest of pale and the tannest of tan. It’s not choosy. So you need to be. Make one of these fabulous celebs your sun-care role model and consider taking part in one of these programs today.
Oh, and remember to spread the word…and the sunscreen.
Images: Newscom
SO SO IMPORTANT.
I hadnt done//havent done a post on this yet—but Ive linked to other peoples’ as they all seem to reiterate the same stuff (there is nothing new, People. WEAR SUNSCREEN) far better than I could.
I hope you saved a few lives with this!
M.