There is only one thing more British than talking about the weather, and thats apologising for it! Some of us rely on our weather chat as a fail safe, a reassuring ice breaker. It has a significant power to affect our mood and even without realising appears in daily conversation in the form of weather related idioms; "under the weather", "head in the clouds", "snowed under"; used to describe anything from our health to the way we feel about our daily responsibilities. In fact weather has a tremendous impact on our daily lives!
Successfully upholding English stereotypes by actually discussing the weather at the start of today's post... and yes, before you ask, I am drinking a cup of tea, stands to further support common belief that weather discussions and tea drinking is how the English fill their days. The Director of the Social Research Centre Think Tank, social anthropologist Kate Fox, concluded from the results of a recent study, that the majority of people use weather as a medium to articulate our social messages and as a facilitator of social interaction. I guess you could suggest that this is exactly what I have done in this very post. I'm not really that interested in the weather but I do believe it can have a significant impact on our mood and the way we feel about ourselves. I've used this potentially, extremely dull topic as a means to justify why I think you all need to get your hands on a product that will give you that extra boost during this pretty grey month.
It's actually slightly hard to comprehend that just 3 or 4 months ago it was actually so warm that I participated in regular tanning sessions with my chums in the local park! Having had the opportunity to spend extended periods of time abroad this year, I built a pretty impressive (what I liked to believe was on par with the Brazilian goddesses that stroll up and down Ipanema Beach) tanned complexion. Now, in November, whiter than white, I look like a completely different person, almost unrecognisable! Please don't get me wrong, I am not the kind of girl that only thinks about her appearance and that having a tan is the key to all happiness but I do love a good tan and having one certainly gives you the extra jujj you need to feel better about yourself in these slightly greyer winter months. We can't make the sun come out but by faking it there is just a little part of me that remembers all the great memories I made this summer. Even if the winter months drag, and things seem hard, there's no reason to let ourselves feel any less positive than we do in the summer. Of course our mood and emotions are affected by a multitude of different factors but I think that a little extra confidence can really help you out at times when things might seem a bit dull.
Fake it! Get your hands on a bottle of Palmer's Natural Bronze Formula (sold in all high street pharmacies - cheapest I found was £5.39 from Superdrug)! Produced by the makers of the fantastic smelling, dry skin combatting, cocoa butter, that without fail takes me back to my school PE lessons. This fantastic gradual tanning moisturiser really does do what it says on the bottle, providing you with a natural looking tan, is fast absorbing and I can honestly say, with careful and equal application, leaves you free of the streaks we all dread when attempting to acquire one from a bottle.
Get your hands on it and November will hopefully not seem so grey!
Cj x
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