The white leg dilemma

My monthly column, Deeply Superficial, appears in the (melbourne) magazine today (inside The Age) and in the (sydney) magazine tomorrow (which is free with The Sydney Morning Herald.) (I wish they'd get rid of those trendy parentheses.) The subject this month is Asia's obsession with white skin and the West's obsession with suntans, now that it's time to get out the fake tan again. By the way, if you really must fake it (and, quite frankly, I don't see what is wrong with white legs) I've discovered a product that isn't half bad: Asyana Dark Bronze Tanning Lotion. It gives you a hell of a fright when you first pump it out of the bottle because it stains your hands poo-brown but, never fear, it washes off. Okay, that's enough superficiality for this week. On to more serious things...