I was born with black hair, while my brothers were born platinum blond....they both have blue eyes while mine are dark green.
So, everyone thought I was safe in the sunshine while they were more covered up.
The reality is that if I were a man, brunette though I may be, I'd grow a red beard.....my eldest son has a lot of red in his hair and beard, and the red in my own hair has now gone white, he's starting to go the same way. Youngest son looks dark, but when the light hits his hair it sheens faintly dark red.
I always rather envied those folks who seemed to have thick white or pale gold skin; mine was always kind of translucent, never any problem finding a vein, kind of thing, add on freckles and yeah, typical Scot/Brit.
I had tissue removed from both my arm and leg too where freckles had gone kind of funny, and both came back pre-cancerous/ sun damage, so f100 it is when I'm out and about in any Sunshine. The scar on my forearm is nearly 3cm long.
I'm busy dawn and dusk, and in the height of the day I'm happy to bustle around indoors.
The Scottish Govt., strongly recommends that we all take VitD pretty much all year round.
We live so much longer these days, and we live mostly indoors, so it's a sensible recommendation.
I would be miserable living in the tropics. It's lovely to see, it's lovely to imagine, but my reality is that I'd rather be under treecover