Sun Safety From A Land Down Under

I'm at the lake with Aussie relatives, and have been officially one-upped in the sun safety department. My diligent coats of SPF 30? Not impressing them. All day it's been, "Get out of the sun, you wombat," and "Why ah-n't you coverin' ya should-ahs?" According to my Uncle Stephen, who shamelessly strolls the beach in a floppy, Crocodile Dundee-esque hat, Australian schoolchildren aren't even allowed to go outside without hats during sunny months. The Cancer Council Australia, too, pushes a national Slip! Slop! Slap! campaign—slip on a shirt, slop on some 'screen, slap on a hat—as means of reducing the consequences of sun exposure. Makes sense, after all: 280,000 Aussies are diagnosed with skin cancer each year, and 1,200 die of it, giving Australia the highest skin cancer rate in the entire world. So, in the words of Stephen Sunscreen-Savvy Anderson: "Go on, put an 'at on your 'ead." —Jessica Anderson, Sephora

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