getting tan

[chatty kathy]

jonesing for the beach.....its been a while and thats where im gonna be......woooohoooo

 

[tonksy]

i don't tan....when i was a kid i did but nowadays i just burn and go right back to pale...maybe with some added freckling. i tried the tanning beds at one point in time when i was a restaurant manager and got in for free, but they didn't work for me....guess i'm destined to be fairskinned for the rest of my lily white life.....*sigh*

 

[Dave]

i burn and peel. the burns are worse if i use sunscreen. then there is the sand everywhere.....

 

[Ms Ann Thrope]

i don't tan....when i was a kid i did but nowadays i just burn and go right back to pale...maybe with some added freckling. i tried the tanning beds at one point in time when i was a restaurant manager and got in for free, but they didn't work for me....guess i'm destined to be fairskinned for the rest of my lily white life.....*sigh*

Nothing wrong with that tonks! It's much healthier, in fact.

I don't tan because basting myself on some beach doesn't appeal. In fact, the only beaches I truly like are the ones with huge waves violently crashing on boulders. Where there's a strong salty wind and you need to wear a thick sweater and boots.

 

[Leslie]

I decided a few years ago that I don't wanna be leathery and wrinkly when I'm older...so I don't intentionally don't tan

translucent works for me...humans aren't meant to be sueded anyway

 

[Dave]

sounds like a lot of beaches up this way....

 

[Ms Ann Thrope]

haven't explored the Eastern seaboard, but I've spent a lot of time in Northern California... Big Sur is pretty close to my idea of heaven

 

[Dave]

you would fall in love with the Maine coast. waves arent arent nearly as spectacular except when the weather turns foul but it is the same type of shoreline.

 

[Ms Ann Thrope]

It's long been a dream of mine to go there...if for no other reason than to find out how much lobster I need to eat before I get sick of it.

 

[Dave]

It's long been a dream of mine to go there...if for no other reason than to find out how much lobster I need to eat before I get sick of it.

i'll let you know how long it takes me...i have a few years headstart....

 

[greenfreak]

i don't tan.... i just burn and go right back to pale...maybe with some added freckling.

Ditto. The closest I ever got was when I lived in Florida and got a little sun every day. But I don't want to end up like my Mom, she's tan but her skin is pretty bad.

 

[kuulani]

*thanking the gods for the little brown pigments that they gave me*

 

[unclehobart]

I have the protypical workingmans tan. Mild to toasty brown face and arms with pale white bloatfish belly and legs. I can tan fairly easily... but only to a point. I'm more scar tissue than not...which unfortunately doesn't really tan that well at all.

 

[Luis G]

*thanking the gods for the little brown pigments that they gave me*

I have them too, but in a somewhat funny way, if I expose myself to the sun too much first i get the lobster colour, then i peel, and then my skin turns a little brown and then the sun doesn't feel so bad, but after a while of no exposure (like 1 month) the skin turns back to its original colour.

My arms are permanently light brown because of driving, and I intend to keep them that way, otherwise...ouch.

 

[Nitro_Daizy]

I love the Sun it feels really good I think but, you guys are right its not the best thing for your skin. So I say put the sunscreen on and enjoy the feeling

 

[Camelyn]

you would fall in love with the Maine coast. waves arent arent nearly as spectacular except when the weather turns foul but it is the same type of shoreline.

I love the Maine coast. There is nothing like watching a thunder storm on the ocean, the raw power of the wind-blown waves crashing against the rcoky shore. One time, my X had to drag me off my pearch on the cliffs during just such a storm. Something about lightning and the human body being a great conductor

 

[chatty kathy]

I decided a few years ago that I don't wanna be leathery and wrinkly when I'm older...so I don't intentionally don't tan

translucent works for me...humans aren't meant to be sueded anyway

I'm 45 and I look 35....suntanned forever .....I think it depends on the person themselves and how they treat their skin b4 and afterwards....I use skin softeners and do use a block.....then I use a after sun lotion.....also.....if you tan I dont feel that you have to use makeup...natural glow

 

[chatty kathy]

i don't tan....when i was a kid i did but nowadays i just burn and go right back to pale...maybe with some added freckling. i tried the tanning beds at one point in time when i was a restaurant manager and got in for free, but they didn't work for me....guess i'm destined to be fairskinned for the rest of my lily white life.....*sigh*

guess I should consider myself lucky!! I tan....but then I am in shorts and in the sun a lot...

 

[tonksy]

guess I should consider myself lucky!! I tan....but then I am in shorts and in the sun a lot...

i am in louisiana...just started wearing long pants last week....see my share of sun...just don't tan...not meant to.

 

[Kawaii]

I haven't had a tan in a year or so... The sun hurtses us.