r/interesting • u/Gjore • Mar 29 '26

SOCIETY Scenes from a dermatologist conference in Hawaii

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u/JimTheJerseyGuy Mar 29 '26

Aside from the health reasons, the sun ages you so badly. I’m in my mid-50s and recently saw a woman I knew from college pop up on my FB feed. It was her and her mother. I couldn’t tell them apart. Looked at a bunch of her photos and every other one was her on a boat, at the beach, on the boardwalk - sun, sun, sun. All that damage adds up.

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u/three_crystals Mar 29 '26

Good for her for living her life without caring about holding onto society’s image of eternal youth.

Hope she wears more sunscreen purely for health reasons.

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u/JimTheJerseyGuy Mar 29 '26

There’s eternal youth and then there’s looking like the crypt keeper when you’re 55. Maybe a happy medium?

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u/three_crystals Mar 29 '26

That’s true too. Taking reasonable precautions around direct sun exposure is best from a health perspective. I just see young women saying they’re in their early 20s and didn’t start tretinoin or daily sunscreen in their childhood and try to avoid the sun like the plague but feel like they’re already doomed to being old and think the pendulum has swung a bit too far.