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The 'perks' of being ginger...

The season of Summer has approached, and I really have come to experience the many 'perks' of being ginger.

Firstly, the freckles. I was rather satisfied with the amount of freckles I had in the Autumn/Winter seasons; just a few scattered around my nose that were not too prominent or overbearing. Then Spring arrived. I noticed a few more 'spring' to my forehead, but I could deal with this; nothing too drastic... Now Summer has hit me and BOOM. The little devils are everywhere. I feel like my whole face has turned into an army of freckles. They all just need to join together now so my face is all one colour. You never know, it may turn into a 'yes I'm tanned' sort of look... but I doubt that. ;) Yeah it's all good saying you can cover it up with foundation, but finding a perfect match for pale skin is impossible!!

This brings me on to fake tanning - something gingers can NEVER do. Let's face it, it just looks stupid. Fair enough using some gradual tanning moisturizer giving a 'summery glow' but I'm too scared to even consider a spray tan due to the possibility of my skin clashing with my hair. I am not new to items clashing with my hair after all; I thought I'd grabbed a bargain in a charity shop buying an £8 large red vintage bag, however I ended up giving it to my sister as I felt it clashed with my hair too much. Oh the joys.

In addition to all this, the ultimate top 'perk' of the ginger gene has to be our reactions to the sun. Last Thursday was a rather sunny hot day (for the UK anyway) at 23 degrees. I was wearing a floaty skater skirt with a summery sleeveless top. I knew the weather was going to be 'nice' that day, but didn't even think to apply sun cream to my milk bottle white skin, I mean it's the UK for goodness sake? Who gets burnt in the UK right? So I didn't wear any. BIG mistake. I completely underestimated the power of the sun. From just sitting on the grass for an hour or so, the tops of my shoulders were literally as red as tomatoes. They felt sore all weekend and yesterday they started peeling. PEELING. From weather in the UK! Ultimate 'perk' of a ginger. Lesson to be learnt: apply sun cream whenever weather forecast is 20 degrees or more.

However, despite all this, I would never want to dye my hair, or trade my ginger genes for anything - it's who I am! On the bright side, apparently redheads don't go grey until much later!

Let me know if any other gingers out there can relate to anything I've mentioned!

I'm just gonna go and apply some After-Sun...

Speak soon!

Alex

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