Freckles - labels of the sun (Part 1)

July 27th, 2007 by webmaster

Freckles on the face - is the first attribute of spring. Such opinion has been occurring for a long time. Freckles are the distinguishing feature of people, sensitive to the sun. These are people with a light skin and red hair. As soon as the spring sun touches their skin freckles immediately appear.
Freckles are a natural skin reaction to ultra-violet beams. We can name freckles dot sunburn, which protects the most vulnerable and important sites of our organism. Such dot sunburn is an original economy of an organism of people with the lack of melanin.
Basically freckles settle down on the skin of the face, hands, and neck and back in its top part. But there are also such people, at which freckles are spread on all body. Color of freckles may be of different tones and shades - from golden up to chestnut. Freckles are subjectively and individually and the attitude towards them is also various.
Earlier, prior to the beginning of XX century, people with freckles were regarded as people of the lowest social classes. Ladies from high society have always tried to hide or to avoid freckles. They were hiding from solar beams under veils and umbrellas and if the ultraviolet managed to leave the trace on their skin, ladies had to bleach it in various ways.
But when the fashion on sunburn has come, the society has reconsidered the sight at freckles. Freckles have become fashionable.



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