Your Story Series: Meet Bianca

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What is your name?

Hi, my name is Bianca.

Describe yourself.

I am a university student playing plenty of outdoors sport, where I have become aware of the danger of sun damage.

What is your attitude towards sun protection today?

I know it is imperative to protect my skin from UV rays and to prevent skin cancer, but wearing sun protective clothing is a love-hate relationship. Being a young adult in a world full of social media means image is everything, and fashion is queen.

Sun protective clothing is synonymous with dull and boring outfits. Being an active outdoor person, I have found my white knight Solbari. Solbari adds colour to my wardrobes. Solbari gives me a wide colour choice of stylish outfits without compromising my need for sun protection. The Solbari sun hat is my angel guarding my face, in the disguise of a fashion hat.

What would you tell your 16 year old self about sun protection?

I used to be a typical teenager who wanted to fit in with everyone's fashion choice and hated being nagged. Forcing her to bring sunblock was hopeless, let alone nagging her to apply it. Bearing this in mind, I would use an interactive video game to tell my 16-year-old self about the importance of sun protection.

Celebrity facial care of course is a bait which will lead my 16-year-old self to the ultimate message of skin protection from the sun through real life stories of skin cancer. Utilising the power of YouTube, I would share real-life stories to trigger my adolescent self's emotions, which were always the driver of my behaviour.

I would also recruit an army of young healthy-looking models. They would be the main characters in drama series broadcasted through digital media, wearing all sorts of coloured stylish, sun protective clothing and accessories. I would no longer need to nag my 16-year old self to use sun protection.

My teenage self would subconsciously copy the fashion wardrobe of those characters whom she admired. We would share our fashion taste. I could showcase her my stylish wardrobe with a wide choice of colourful sun-protection fabric.

All these tactics would achieve my purpose of educating my 16 years old self about sun protection.

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