Speaker 1: Hey, I want to take a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a serious turn. Now. I am not believe it or
Speaker 1: not a TikToker. I'm not in that world. I don't
Speaker 1: love TikTok. I can ruse it very occasionally.
Speaker 2: You started an account and I think you posted one
Speaker 2: thing and then never came back.
Speaker 1: I started an account too old. Yeah. Someone was like,
Speaker 1: you need to keep up with the trends, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to anyway. Speaking of trends,
Speaker 1: there is a trend on TikTok at the moment where
Speaker 1: these gen zs are trying to bring back and make
Speaker 1: it cool, cool and attractive and sexy to have tan
Speaker 1: lines like they are. They are actively going out into
Speaker 1: the burning sun to get a tan line from like swimmers,
Speaker 1: like a triangle mark for example, for the women, so
Speaker 1: that when they wear their clothes you can see that
Speaker 1: they've got these huge like the white triangle and then
Speaker 1: basically like burnt hand skin.
Speaker 2: I just feel like for all of the efforts that
Speaker 2: has has been done to try and change people's perceptions
Speaker 2: around tanning, I don't understand how you could do a
Speaker 2: one eighty on this, Like the whole slip stop slap
Speaker 2: thing how that's gone out the window.
Speaker 1: But before we get into the dane of actually what
Speaker 1: having a tan means, it's dumb. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Like, like we have gone over the years,
Speaker 1: we used to do the opposite, right, if you had
Speaker 1: a tan, you'd be like, damn it, look at this
Speaker 1: tan line. I need to try and cover it uniform.
Speaker 1: And now it's changed to be sexy. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: If anyone's in the car right now thinking that a
Speaker 1: tan line looks hot, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: I also don't know. I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: just jen z. It's like I know that this is
Speaker 2: taking of TikTok. I've seen it as well. But I
Speaker 2: do sometimes feel like I don't want to be the
Speaker 2: ageist in here. That's like it's that generation.
Speaker 1: We are nearly forty.
Speaker 2: But yeah, But also it's when you think about the
Speaker 2: stats when it comes to skin cancer, and like specifically
Speaker 2: here in Australia, it is really really scary stuff. So
Speaker 2: two out of every three Australians will be diagnosed with
Speaker 2: skin cancer. One Australian dies from melanoma every six hours.
Speaker 2: Like when you think about the prevalence of it. It's
Speaker 2: crazy to me that this could ever make a comeback.
Speaker 2: And I think about when I was young, in our
Speaker 2: family and in our household as kids, sun's safety was
Speaker 2: just not a thing. Like my mum would be like,
Speaker 2: I've got a pimple, go out and get some sun
Speaker 2: on it. Clear your skin right up. I got burnt
Speaker 2: so much as a kid, and now I'm paying for it.
Speaker 2: The amount of lasers, the amount of like different creams
Speaker 2: and things that I've tried to use to get rid
Speaker 2: of the pigmentation that I have. Even I have pigmentation
Speaker 2: all over my arm, which I would say daily. I
Speaker 2: have people message me on Instagram being like, why have
Speaker 2: you got bruises all over yourself? But actually it's sun damage.
Speaker 2: And it has totally changed the way that I parent
Speaker 2: in comparison to how I was parented. It like, my
Speaker 2: kids are five and three and they have never ever
Speaker 2: been sunburned, and I think that it's so that's so achievable.
Speaker 2: But when I was a kid, I used to think
Speaker 2: like it's just crazy, Like everyone gets sunburn, it's normal.
Speaker 1: I put sun cream. Now now that I know the
Speaker 1: stats around Australia, I put sun cream on my dog's nose.
Speaker 2: I know I do the same.
Speaker 1: Also, it's sort of like counterintuitive, right when you think
Speaker 1: of the youngsters, the young'ins that are so proactive in
Speaker 1: their appearance in terms of wanting to look good and
Speaker 1: they're anti aging, but then they say, hey, let's get
Speaker 1: a turn line. The quickest way to age and to
Speaker 1: show aging is from the sun. So it sort of
Speaker 1: goes against each other.
Speaker 2: There's so much information about that now, Like I mean,
Speaker 2: it's not like that that's a new piece of you know,
Speaker 2: info is that the more sun exposure and sun damage
Speaker 2: you have, the worse it's going to be for your
Speaker 2: skin in the long run. But the thing is, I
Speaker 2: think that when and you remember what it was like, you
Speaker 2: don't think about the long term, right, You don't think
Speaker 2: about what is that going to do to you when
Speaker 2: you're forty or fifty or sixty. And I look at
Speaker 2: my skin now and I just think, God, I wish
Speaker 2: I had done it differently when I was younger. And
Speaker 2: every time I'm at the beach and I'm putting sunscreen
Speaker 2: on my kids and they're like, man a bit, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you will when you are at nineteen, when you are
Speaker 2: thirty five, You're going to thank me for this.
Speaker 1: That's my point, Laura. This generation do think that they're using,
Speaker 1: like seventeen eighteen, nineteen year olds are wanting to use
Speaker 1: active skincare, all of the top makeup, they're getting botox
Speaker 1: at that age, like they care a lot about what
Speaker 1: they look like compared to our generation because of things
Speaker 1: like social media. So then it just seems so backwards
Speaker 1: for me to be like, Hey, I'm twenty and I'm
Speaker 1: going to pay for all this money to make myself
Speaker 1: look young, but I'm gonna go and burn my skin
Speaker 1: to get the tan line, which is going to age me.
Speaker 1: Like it just for me is silly. So I just
Speaker 1: think anyone listening right now that thinks this is cool,
Speaker 1: you will probably most likely stats wise, get skin cancer
Speaker 1: from that. So he's doing everything you want. Especially in Australia,
Speaker 1: we have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's a really, really scary statistic. The
Speaker 2: good thing though, is that trends don't last long. Remember
Speaker 2: the planking trend. I still blank, you don't you idiot?
Speaker 2: Or like, speaking of kids, I did something very stupid.
Speaker 2: My daughter she's just started well, she's just had a
Speaker 2: vacation care for school, and I it's good to be
Speaker 2: a kid these days, aren't you got a vacation every day. Well,
Speaker 2: it's like it's like before schoolcare, arfter school care, vacation care.
Speaker 2: And I got a call from the teachers because I
Speaker 2: am doing a really bad job of this parenting thing.
Speaker 1: So it would seem, oh, here we go.