Tanning

Sugarinii · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:40 pm

I've never really understood the whole tanning craze. Although, I guess this would probably be because my natural skin color is sort of golden-walnut-y (Although in winter I get paler and in some lights I look like I have jaundice).

However, it seems that whenever I go to the beach I always see dozens and dozens of people with white skin lying out on the beach, tanning. I'll spend the whole day there, six hours, even, and on the walk back, they are still there! Lying there for six hours just to gain two shades and give yourself skin cancer?? What the kerslumpflull is that all about?

I can understand people who are very pale wanting to be a few shades darker, because they feel they look like ghosts or paper, but in that case, why don't people just buy a bottle of self-tanner and get it over with in an hour? Is that not better than lying in the heat for six hours, broiling and giving yourself cancer?

Yarp. Such a confusing topic this is.

ArwenEarendil · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:43 pm

I agree with you. There are notices about health risks related to tanning. But people seem to think that they are just jokes.

I don't understand it. Those who aren't very pale want a tan anyways. Why do they feel the need to darken their skin further? I don't think that it makes you look any better. Or it could just be me.

AlligatorHater · **Posts:** 181 **Joined:** Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:11 pm

I don't understand the whole "beach" thing. Personally I can't stand beaches, too hot, too much sand, the ocean doesn't taste nice. I just can't find anything *fun* to do on beaches.

I much prefer a nice snowy mountain side

Which can also get you tanned quite nicely

ArwenEarendil · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:10 pm

AlligatorHater wrote:

I don't understand the whole "beach" thing. Personally I can't stand beaches, too hot, too much sand, the ocean doesn't taste nice. I just can't find anything *fun* to do on beaches.

I much prefer a nice snowy mountain side

Which can also get you tanned quite nicely

It's quite true. It's easy to get a tan on a mountain. The sun glare from snow helps too. I presonally don't like beaches either. Ocean water is sticky and unclean, not to mention that I rather despise sand.

AlligatorHater · **Posts:** 181 **Joined:** Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:11 pm

And trying to eat lunch on the beach is something I just can't do. The sand gets all over your food somehow, no matter how careful you are! Beaches should be destroyed...or something. Or maybe I should just avoid them

Christopher · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:29 pm

I think its faster to get a tan from snow glare anyhoo...its just slighlty cold lying almost nekkid on a mountain.

Flame · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:29 pm

I don't try and get tan. It just sorta happens. I have no desire to lay in the sun for 6 hours. *shudders*

I have gone to a tanning place once, but that was only for a short period of time to get rid of these nasty tan lines on my arms. And I'm pale enough that it wouldn't hurt me at all to tan a bit.

Igg · **Posts:** 6288 **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:47 pm

Mm, a nice healthy tan

ArwenEarendil · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:34 pm

I too, tan too easily. Thus, I put on globs of sun-tan lotion. Supposedly, you're supposed to put on that stuff year-round.

Anyways, I actually like having pale/fair skin.

Sugarinii · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:38 pm

I use the strongest SPF there is and slather it on every two hours, lots of it, but somehow I still gain two shades just walking three blocks from my house to 7-11 and back. o.O

ArwenEarendil · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:40 pm

I use SPF 45 and put on a layer, let it dry and the slab some more on. Maybe that'll work for you too.

shapu · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:59 pm

Just remember that sunscreen expires after several months. So if you're gonna slather it on, slather on the fresh stuff.

Anyway, if you really want to get a nice healthy tan, that's impossible. Tans occur because your skin is bombarded with ultraviolet radiation, which damages cells, particularly the DNA, which can lead to skin cancer. A tan is your body's emergency response to extended solar exposure.

If you absotively posilutely have to be golden brown, go to a spa and get a professional spray-on tan. It offers no protection, but does have that "I spend time in the sun" brownish tinge to it that the bottled tans don't.

Anyway, Sugarinii, the only reason anyone lays out is to get you to make up words like "kerslumpflull."

t3h_Fergus · **Posts:** 71 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 12:37 pm

We live in a world where people become celebrities for living in a house that's under constant surveilance.

Somewhow, I fail to be shocked that people are stupid enough to be content to lie around getting skin cancer

Marching Duck · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:54 pm

yeah i dont do tanning beds. cancer in a coffin? no thanks.

i dont have the attention span to lay outside under the sun.

The only way I'll get tan is if I'm outside doing something like yardwork or swimming or an outdoor day concert....and usually I burn 1st lol. I need to learn to wear sunblock.

Dragonfire · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:46 pm

I want a tan. I'm not pale, I'm just really white. Also, I think beaches are fine for me. I much rather prefer those than a snowy mountainside. But, I have lived in warm-hot places all my life, (Phoenix, Corpus Christi, and Austin) and I'm used to the beach as I lived in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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