Irish people's obsession with having a tan

Festy

Tell me whats so great about it ?


Give me a pale cailin deas any day of the week over some wrinkled up oompa loompa

Anyone else agree ?

Hownowcow

They're just tanned?

Rasheed

There's a big difference between the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding mahogany tan and a healthy glow. So Irish girls don't know when to stop alright but a nice tan makes you look healthier and more attractive IMO.

I find a good hardy day in the bog is better than any bottle or sun bed to bring up a tan.

Paddy Cow

It's hardly an Irish thing, more a white people thing.

zcorpian88

Agreed, hate fake tan, I always associate the stuff to Tallafornia, TOWIE, Jersey Shore and those other tv shows idiots watch. People are easily influenced by the muck on tv so they go out and buy muck to lather their skin in. Be white and pasty and proud people!

suicide_circus

Irish people? notice the amount of tanning bed places beside the polski skleps?!

smash

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Be white and pasty and proud people!

That's racist!

:pac:

zcorpian88

suicide_circus wrote: »

Irish people? notice the amount of tanning bed places beside the polski skleps?!

Is that a thing? There is one beside our one in Kilkenny actually!

A tan makes you look healthier, thinner, and reduces the appearances of things like cellulite, scars, etc.

When people say they don't like fake tan they're not thinking of the lightly bronzed girl they were checking out last week, they think of bright orange, dirty looking people who have over-done it. It's the same with when people say they prefer the look of people not wearing make-up, but what they really mean is that they like subtle make-up. You'd be surprised how many people wear fake tan, it's not just the "oompa-loompas".

Myself now, as much as I'd defend fake tan, have never used the stuff, but it's more so to do with me being too lazy to do it.

suicide_circus

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Is that a thing? There is one beside our one in Kilkenny actually!

yes its a thing. the po pos have an unholy fear of rickets you see. and with this soggy rock receiving about 8 minutes of sunshine per year, they must resort to the tan beds.

Sugar Free

I find other people judge the success of your travels by your tan.

It doesn't matter if you were going to experience a different country, culture, food etc. that you might not otherwise experience in Ireland, if you didn't get a tan they look disappointed!

E.g. come back from spending time doing loads of outdoor stuff in an amazing country but with a temperate climate 'Ah you look no different, was there no sun while you were over there? '

Versus

Come back from a week on the piss in Spain 'God you got a lovely colour, it must have been great '.

zcorpian88

suicide_circus wrote: »

yes its a thing. the po pos have an unholy fear of rickets you see. and with this soggy rock receiving about 8 minutes of sunshine per year, they must resort to the tan beds.

Half a cup of tea went down the wrong way reading that! :pac:

gramar

Didn't we get rid of the tans a hundred years ago and now we're obsessed with having one?

fonda

I work in the middle east and all the poorer nationalities working here are the exact opposite. Its crazy to see guys cover every inch of skin including their face when its 40 plus degrees out, seen a guy yesterday in a thick wolly balaclava and gloves!

In their countries the darker you are means the poorer you are and your social standing is less, i believe this is because if you are really tanned it means you labour outside or even possibly don't have a home and can't get shelter from the sun!

zcorpian88

Well I'm not big on a tan to be honest, I barely get a colour when I go anywhere anyway, but I don't get scalded either. Maybe a bit of burn on the shoulders and that would be it. I get more of a farmers tan that fades off once I'm home for a week.

I'm probably too hairy to tan I think. I don't worry about getting a colour when I'm lucky enough to feck off somewhere for a week or two, I'm too busy enjoying the sights, sea based activities, food and enjoying a few drinks by the pool. Not vain enough to be worrying about how I look once I arrive home, I go on holiday to enjoy myself and not give a shyte what I look like once I arrive home.

12gauge dave

fonda wrote: »

I work in the middle east and all the poorer nationalities working here are the exact opposite. Its crazy to see guys cover every inch of skin including their face when its 40 plus degrees out, seen a guy yesterday in a thick wolly balaclava and gloves!

In their countries the darker you are means the poorer you are and your social standing is less, i believe this is because if you are really tanned it means you labour outside or even possibly don't have a home and can't get shelter from the sun!

Ya i heard that japanese women put on make up to make their skin as white as possible aswell it just shows that beauty is not universal diferent cultures have diferent views on what is attractive

Paddy Cow

fonda wrote: »

I work in the middle east and all the poorer nationalities working here are the exact opposite. Its crazy to see guys cover every inch of skin including their face when its 40 plus degrees out, seen a guy yesterday in a thick wolly balaclava and gloves!

In their countries the darker you are means the poorer you are and your social standing is less, i believe this is because if you are really tanned it means you labour outside or even possibly don't have a home and can't get shelter from the sun!

It used to be like that here too. Having a tan marked you as a peasant who worked in the fields. The noble ladies had those umbrellas for the sun to stay as pasty as possible. How times change!

Duck's hoop

Paddy Cow wrote: »

It used to be like that here too. The noble ladies had those umbrellas for the sun

Parasols.

Shenshen

I'm originally from a place that gets more sun than Ireland, and I've seen what "a healthy glow" will turn into some 2 or 3 decades down the line.

Believe me, once you've seen the "grilled chicken women" as we call them, you no longer want a tan of any kind. *shudders*

Rosy Posy

Paddy Cow wrote: »

It used to be like that here too. Having a tan marked you as a peasant who worked in the fields. The noble ladies had those umbrellas for the sun to stay as pasty as possible. How times change!

Now having a tan is a status symbol for being able to afford a sun holiday. Bonus points for winter tan...in the shape of ski goggles all the better.

My little cousin who is half caste insisted on getting a spray tan for her confirmation...all the girls were getting them apparently. Ridiculous stuff. :rolleyes:

eamonnq

Duck's hoop wrote: »

Parasols.

No it's true!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I don't really wear fake tan at all, it doesn't suit me, doesn't sit on my skin properly, I don't like how it looks on me when it's wearing off.

I go out without it, and the girls (friends) laugh at me being so pale ect, while they're all there saturated in it.

Recently had a wedding and the girls in work were horrified I wasn't getting tan done, like spent ages each day in the lead up to the wedding telling me I would need tan because I'm shocking pasty.

I'm a beauty therapist so it's even more frowned upon* in salons where I've worked, your offered free tans at the weekend, all the girls are generally jumping at the chance to be done for the weekend, or else are perma tanned already, however being any shade darker than I'm supposed to be just makes me uncomfortable and I don't like how I look.

But I'm pretty pale, I have dark hair and really blue eyes so it works on me. I like that I can wear my red lipstick and defined eyebrows, and I like that I can paint my nails red and wear my big thick frames nerdy glasses. That's more my style than looking like I crawled out of a dorito bag. And my "trademarks" just look odd on me when I'm brown.

CruelCoin

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Is that a thing? There is one beside our one in Kilkenny actually!

Yup, eastern european women are relatively low maintenance, but by god are they vain....

Annasopra

This guy down from the road from me looks like he's permanently tangoed.

gjc

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/mystery-of-naked-sun-lover-on-roof-of-dublin-house-29298875.html. :D:D. The lengths people will go to o get their full complement of vitamin D. That link is now broken indo must have taken it down

https://mobile.twitter.com/davieomara/status/338026208350584832

BraziliaNZ

I love sunbathing. Going to South of France on Wed, but weather doesn't look like it will be great, sigh. Fake tan is awful though, I've never met a man who likes it on women.

gobnaitolunacy

Somehow, bright orange seems to be a 'natural' tan colour in the uk and ireland.

Are ppl fcuking colour blind?

Crooked Jack

My sister wears loads of the stuff and it gets everywhere. If she goes out for the night the bathroom looks like somebody ran out of toilet roll and just decided to wipe their arse on the floor, walls, sink, bath etc...

dan1895

Shenshen wrote: »

I'm originally from a place that gets more sun than Ireland

Mind narrowing it down?

Lunni

Rosy Posy wrote: »

Now having a tan is a status symbol for being able to afford a sun holiday. Bonus points for winter tan...in the shape of ski goggles all the better.

My little cousin who is half caste insisted on getting a spray tan for her confirmation...all the girls were getting them apparently. Ridiculous stuff. :rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure that's a really un-PC term now! :eek:

I don't know why Irish girls are obsessed with tanning. I think people look better with the skin colour they have. Tans looks great on Spanish or Italian girls because it goes with their colouring. Fake tan trowelled on a pale ginger girl looks silly. I find that people's natural colouring almost always looks better than when they mess around with it.

FizzleSticks

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Sergeant

I hit the sunbeds every day. I aim to be the colour of Ronseal Rich Teak by the August bank holiday.

hedgehog2

While fake tan looks crap and has a repungant odour it is far safer than using sunbeds.
My mates girlfriend was Polish and all of her friends were obsessed with sun beds.
She was 21 when I first met her,I recently bumped into her and honestly her skin is fecked from the sunbeds.
She looks well into her early 30`s and is only 24/25,this is not just one girl I have seen it with a few other eastern European girls but her`s is the most dramatic as she was fixated with them.
We can slag off Irish girls for the fake tan but they are aware of melanoma and spray tans are a less dangerous way of achieving a colour.
I do think a tan helps a cailin look a lot healthier even if it is fake but has to be subtle.

Obliq

I use those body lotion one's that just have a tint in them - and only to take the purple effect off my legs so they blend a bit better with the farmer's tan I always get. Never warm enough here to have the legs out usually, so I don't want to frighten the horses on the 1 or 2 days a year I wear shorts Even those lotions can go badly wrong behind the knees and on the ankles, but at least they don't turn you orange and they wear off pretty evenly.

r3nu4l

true-or-false wrote: »

A tan makes you look healthier, thinner, and reduces the appearances of things like cellulite, scars, etc.

When people say they don't like fake tan they're not thinking of the lightly bronzed girl they were checking out last week, they think of bright orange, dirty looking people who have over-done it. It's the same with when people say they prefer the look of people not wearing make-up, but what they really mean is that they like subtle make-up. You'd be surprised how many people wear fake tan, it's not just the "oompa-loompas".

Myself now, as much as I'd defend fake tan, have never used the stuff, but it's more so to do with me being too lazy to do it.

False. I detest fake tan of any sort and I really don't like makeup either, ,even lightly, well done make up. I also don't get the obsession with tans as I don't think it makes anyone look 'healthy'. Each to their own though, I won't judge someone who uses fake tan or make up but for their own sake, I wish those who overdo it had friends honest enough to say something, rather than lying and saying 'ah ye look only gorgeous!'

cletus van damme

gonna say , I quite like fake tan on an irish girl.

must be applied properly and not as liberally to make her look like a member of the wonka workforce.

Crooked Jack

r3nu4l wrote: »

False. I detest fake tan of any sort and I really don't like makeup either, ,even lightly, well done make up. I also don't get the obsession with tans as I do
Nt thinkit makes anyone look 'healthy'. Each to their own though, I won't judge someone who uses fake tan or make up it for their own sake, I wish those who overdo it had friends honest enough to say something, rather tha. Lying and saying 'ah ye look only gorgeous!'

Exactly. Personally I never find a girl better looking than when she wakes up first thing in the morning.



That's why I sneak into their houses at night.

luketitz

fonda wrote: »

I work in the middle east and all the poorer nationalities working here are the exact opposite. Its crazy to see guys cover every inch of skin including their face when its 40 plus degrees out, seen a guy yesterday in a thick wolly balaclava and gloves!

In their countries the darker you are means the poorer you are and your social standing is less, i believe this is because if you are really tanned it means you labour outside or even possibly don't have a home and can't get shelter from the sun!

True dat. Everyone wants what they can't have.

I Heart Internet

I hear there was a "mystery woman" sun bathing on top of a garage (filling station...not her house I think) in Dublin over the weekend. She was photographed and put in the independent.

I can't find it online though.

Natural tan (as Dublin woman was perfecting) is fine. I've rarely seen a fake tan that wasn't awful and jarring on a girl who was previously quite pale.

Magenta

Rosy Posy wrote: »

My little cousin who is half caste

Lunni wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's a really un-PC term now! :eek:

Agreed. Not a nice term to use.

It really annoys me when people automatically judge your holiday a failure, simply because you came back without a tan. I'm Irish - when I go to sunny countries, I'm burn like a mofo. So I'm going to wear suncream because, lets face it, sunburn is horrible, can make you feel terrible, but can potentially spoil a good time.

rossie1977

true-or-false wrote: »

A tan makes you look healthier, thinner, and reduces the appearances of things like cellulite, scars, etc.

so you are saying this girl with a tan would look healthier and thinner

eamonnq

gjc wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/mystery-of-naked-sun-lover-on-roof-of-dublin-house-29298875.html. :D:D. The lengths people will go to o get their full complement of vitamin D. That link is now broken indo must have taken it down

https://mobile.twitter.com/davieomara/status/338026208350584832

I Heart Internet wrote: »

I hear there was a "mystery woman" sun bathing on top of a garage (filling station...not her house I think) in Dublin over the weekend. She was photographed and put in the independent.

I can't find it online though.

Natural tan (as Dublin woman was perfecting) is fine. I've rarely seen a fake tan that wasn't awful and jarring on a girl who was previously quite pale.

There ya go!

Mr. CooL ICE

Its probably to do with looking more exotic (for want of a better term). In an island where we get no sun, we see darker-skinned foreigners as being more exotic while people from areas where they are darker-skinned see pale people as also being slightly more exotic.

Had a work colleague (female, chinese) come back from a week in Spain. She got really embarassed when people were admiring her tan.

Tar.Aldarion

Hate the stuff, used in small amounts. Pale ftw.

I Heart Internet

eamonnq wrote: »

There ya go!

Thank you sir. My curiosity has been satisfied.

rox5

Festy wrote: »

Tell me whats so great about it ?


Give me a pale cailin deas any day of the week over some wrinkled up oompa loompa

Anyone else agree ?

I don't get it either. I was fine when I was younger about the whole pale thing until all my friends staring getting into it, and then relatives who are fake-tan mad starting making comments about how unhealthy paleness looks.
I wear it sometimes, if I did not want any foundation lines showing, but it is such a pain in the *** trying to keep it even and trying to get pale spot possibly.

eamonnq

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Thank you sir. My curiosity has been satisfied.

Can't understand why people carry around phones with a crappy camera, when something with a 50x optical zoom would do a far better job!!

lertsnim

Festy wrote: »

Tell me whats so great about it ?


Give me a pale cailin deas any day of the week over some wrinkled up oompa loompa

Anyone else agree ?

How is it an Irish thing? All those Germans taking sun loungers at 6 in the morning are doing it for what exactly?

loveisdivine

true-or-false wrote: »

A tan makes you look healthier, thinner, and reduces the appearances of things like cellulite, scars, etc.

When people say they don't like fake tan they're not thinking of the lightly bronzed girl they were checking out last week, they think of bright orange, dirty looking people who have over-done it. It's the same with when people say they prefer the look of people not wearing make-up, but what they really mean is that they like subtle make-up. You'd be surprised how many people wear fake tan, it's not just the "oompa-loompas".

Myself now, as much as I'd defend fake tan, have never used the stuff, but it's more so to do with me being too lazy to do it.

Or there are people who mean what they say. Like me. I don't think tan skin looks healthier. When I see natural tan I think of how much wrinklier their skin will be when the person is older and also I think of skin cancer.
Same as I don't like wearing make up and I don't like how make up looks on others, even if its only subtle make up. I think a clean face is infinitely healthier and prettier.

Basically I prefer people to actually be healthy, instead of people using various products/exposing themselves to UV just to look healthier.

Lunni

loveisdivine wrote: »

Or there are people who mean what they say. Like me. I don't think tan skin looks healthier. When I see natural tan I think of how much wrinklier their skin will be when the person is older and also I think of skin cancer.
Same as I don't like wearing make up and I don't like how make up looks on others, even if its only subtle make up. I think a clean face is infinitely healthier and prettier.

Basically I prefer people to actually be healthy, instead of people using various products/exposing themselves to UV just to look healthier.

But going out in the sun will give you a tan. There's nothing wrong with that. I tan like mad just from walking around in a sunny country, even if I use sun cream. Your body needs vitamin D and there's nothing wrong with exposing your face/body to the sun to a reasonable extent.