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Fake Bake Debate
Barbara Kantrowitz 4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM
At this year's Oscars actress Anne Hathaway stood out not just because of her gorgeous red Marchesa gown but because of the creamy pale skin she wore under it. If her decision to appear sans tan was an attempt to send a signal that tanning is losing its glamorous glow, her timing couldn't be better, dermatologists say.
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Can Your Skin Be Saved?

Zits and blackheads. Clearasil and BufPufs. Remember your introduction to the confusing, frustrating, hope-filled quest for flawless skin? Skin envy starts at 12 or 13 and never really stops. Fair-skinned frecklers pine for Cameron Diaz's golden membrane, so smooth it looks like it was poured onto her. The olive-toned yearn for Nicole Kidman's milky-white translucence. Then, when our faces begin to pleat with every smile and droop even after a full night's sleep, we suddenly wish for our own maligned skin--as it looked 20 years ago.
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Something New Under The Sun

The touted ingredient is a new form of a familiar substance: titanium dioxide. Used for years as an opacifier in paint and an established sun blocker in face makeup and lipsticks, unadulterated TD wasn't considered suitable for bodies on the beach because it's white and opaque, like the zinc oxide lifeguards smear on their noses. Now cosmetics researchers have reduced the size of TD particles-they call it "micronizing"-and coated them so that the lotions they're added to are invisible when rubbed in. "You don't have to worry about looking like a geisha girl," says Frank Wright, director of biophysics for Lancome, which-along with Estee Lauder, Chanel, Neutrogena, Bain de Soleil and other companies-has introduced TD to its 1993 sun-care products.