Sun’s out – stay safe like Nigella Lawson and head indoors to get a tan
New ways to glow with minimum effort
They’ve been telling us for years. Wear factor 50 protection cream in UVA rays and you too can look like Nigella Lawson. Well, a bit like her, possibly in candlelight. You see, the porcelain-skinned cook is averse to sitting in the sun and by avoiding it continues to look pale and suitably posh. Allegedly the nut-brown look is for farm hands, which mattered not to those who slathered themselves in baby oil in their youth. But with age comes wisdom (sometimes) and the realisation that hours of being horizontal in the heat isn’t as easy as it used to be.
What with the menopause playing havoc with your body temperature and the awkwardness of lying down when you’ve just got up, getting a golden tan in the shadow of climate change feels wrong. And anyway who needs to, when there are so many options available to look sunkissed, courtesy of a bottle.
LET’S GO
While considering my must-take products to pack for holiday, I decided to ask for other suggestions on the Facebook group, MY BEST PRODUCT EVER. Weetabix came up a lot, along with tea bags, Imodium, pillows (“hate hotel pillows”) Vanish soap and plug adaptors. Here are some of the other 300 answers:
Hair spray by the gallon, talcum powder for beach days, Piz Buin tan acceleration oil, Phillip Kingsley swim cap to protect from UVA rays, “ stretchy elastic washing line with hooks either end that I bought for my son to take camping 20 years ago!” That’s So Sun Care range (from £18), iron tablets (thank you Georgia Walters), hairbrush dryer (excellent), Clinique Moisture Surge Mask skirt-and-shorts hangers, “Apple AirTag in suitcase, in case the case goes walkabout”, a kitchen knife and silicon spatula, travel piano (yes really!), pop-up wash basket.
Tell us what you take. Email brigit@jewishnews.co.uk
HOPPING
The British Journal of Sports Medicine has just announced that the inability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds in mid to later life is linked to near doubling in risk of death. And holding on to a chair doesn’t count.
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