well, whether their skin is damaged or not, i think the beauty of each one shines through.

Yes, freckles will appear wherever the sun has touched the skin. As a person covered with freckles I know this as fact. I always wear the highest number waterproof sunscreen to avoid skin damage, but the freckles still appear. I had a dermatologist ask if she could take a picture of my "skin damage" for a presentation. Can't tell you how great that made me feel. Needless to say that was he one and only time I went to that dermatologist.

I think JoanBenson is at least partly right. I've bee having freckles all my life, similar to some on those in pictures, unless I've started to use spf regulary every single day in a year. Since then, my face is coplmetely clean. The conclusion: my freckles were, although cute and charming, the sign of sun induced skin damage. I'm almost sure that people with freckles are more prone to skin cancer than others.

What? who said anything about being sun exposed? I have freckels and i have them because they are who i am. Not because of the sun. Yes when i go out in the sun they tend to be more prominet but they're there in my skin. Some people try to find negative in anything that's ever said or written.

Ppl prone to freckles like that are surely not excessive sun bathers. I would't see it in that way. But very sorry for you.

It's not like these people are going out and deliberately cooking themselves like the oiled leathery wrinklebags you see on so many beaches in various countries. You can see most of them have freckles that are largely confined to their faces, ergo they protect themselves when they can and where they can. No one is celebrating the effects of sun exposure, we are simply celebrating people who go about their lives who just happen to choose to not go overboard with covering themselves up with some burqa type of garb. As unfortunate as it is that you have to deal with skin cancer, your reply sounds at the very least self centered, if not envious. This isn't about you.

Note most of them are redheads. Hereditary and in the genes - not execessive sun exposure. I speak as a proud freckled person, not as freckled as some here, but freckled people know they don't tan - they burn. Sun exposure is something they avoid.