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Have you had your first face lift yet?  Laser?  Any treatment for your face? 

I was discussing my blog with my dermatologist, a top doctor recently written up in W Magazine, Dr. Peter Kopelson, Beverly Hills, California.  He knows I lost my husband to skin cancer.

I asked him if he had written any articles on caring for your skin after laser.  He said he didn’t have anything he could get his hands on that second, but, he added, “anytime you do anything to your face, it needs time to heal, and sun protection is critical.”

In fact, in addition to the recognition of the importance of sun protection after losing my husband to skin cancer, the second reason why I developed my products (UV umbrellas and hats) was because my plastic surgeon said after my laser treatment that I needed to stay out of the sun, to which I replied, “I can’t do that.  I have a dog and he needs to be walked.”

But I can tell you that for me laser was no fun at all, and there was no way I wasn’t going to protect myself.  But how?  At that time, there were no UV umbrellas or hats, or at least I wasn’t aware of them.

And then I got an idea.  I opened up the trunk of my car and looked for a beautiful red rain umbrella that I had given my mother decades before for Mother’s Day, and decided to use that.  It was very feminine.  As I walked under this gorgeous, red umbrella, women came to me from all sides of the street … sometimes three different women at the same time, asking me where I got this gorgeous umbrella (I continue to try to reproduce it, but China has yet to “get” it).  And my need, plus their enthusiasm, were influencing factors of my developing UV umbrellas.