Do You Tan or Burn?

DEFTLEFTHAND

I've been out in the sun for most of the day. I'm sallow to start with and have brown eyes and hair. I've noticed my arms have tanned up quite well, my neck is a reddy sunburnt colour though. Ya can't win :pac:

So do you turn brown or lobster?

Prodigious

Poll

topbloke

This thread suggests I leave the house which I don't... so I can't answer

The Backwards Man

I'd have to have a shower to find out.

Czarcasm

I go lobster red at first, then coal black which fades to chestnut brown.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Prodigious wrote: »

Poll

That's a good idea but I don't know how to do it.

Latchy

I tend to tan slowly , red at first then the gradual blend into a nice brownish tan .

Local-womanizer

I look like I'm from central Africa after a day out in the sun

El Guapo!

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I look like I'm from central Africa after a day out in the sun

Naked with an arrow through your cheeks?

Seachmall

Can you burn without tanning first? I always thought tanning was the precursor to burning.

I burn pretty fast (and get heat rashes, which I have now) but do tan.

Local-womanizer

El Guapo! wrote: »

Naked with an arrow through your cheeks?

Which cheeks?

Larianne

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'd have to have a shower to find out.

oooh, dirty!

To answer the question - it depends if I put the suncream on correctly.

Schism

I'm sporting a shade of brown at the moment, so yes, tan

Itwasntme.

I horrible heat rash first, burn, peel, then turn incredibly black. I never go out in the sun if I can help it. It does terrible things to me. I am convinced my family are vampires because my dad has to wear SPF 30 and above when he goes out in the sun or he gets third (not sure if they are third degree but he gets wounds from it) degree burns. No, he is not an albino. And we are black.

Cody Pomeray

This thread is a trap for ginger people, isn't it.

Watch them all skip awkwardly past.

Festy

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

This thread is a trap for ginger people, isn't it.

Watch them all skip awkwardly past.

Ginger alert :pac:

Fr_Dougal

I'll leave this here.

Itwasntme.

Cody Pomeray wrote: »

This thread is a trap for ginger people, isn't it.

Watch them all skip awkwardly past.

:pac::pac: I wish I could thank this post twice! It made me so happy .

doyle61

I sizzle when I even think about the sun.
Got very badly burnt in Africa few years ago and ever since I can't go into the sun at all. Saying that I always burnt easily but it's bloody ridiculous now days

looking_around

Czarcasm wrote: »

I go lobster red at first, then coal black which fades to chestnut brown.

thats the worst way to tan.

tanning is supposed to a slow processes over weeks to months.

That kinda of tan is what causes icky peeling and skin cancer

ShooterSF

SPF 60 topped up at regular intervals. I like my milk bottle colour thank you very much.

Femme_Fatale

Definitely don't tan, apart from a slight glow on my face/neck. Don't seem to burn easily either though, but I wouldn't test it to see whether it would turn brown.

Pumpkinseeds

I don't usually leave the house without putting on the factor 50. I ran out of it the other day and used factor 30, so ended up with a red face. Milk bottle skin:D

The couple next door are in there late 50's and have been living in the garden all week. Mornings they are in the front garden when the sun is on the front of the house afternoons they're in the back garden. Both are a nice shade of lobster. They had some relatives around with a toddler today, no sunscreen, no shade just out in the hottest part of the day with booze.

Then again they are Gaa mucksavages:D

Festy

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I don't usually leave the house without putting on the factor 50. I ran out of it the other day and used factor 30, so ended up with a red face. Milk bottle skin:D

The couple next door are in there late 50's and have been living in the garden all week. Mornings they are in the front garden when the sun is on the front of the house afternoons they're in the back garden. Both are a nice shade of lobster. They had some relatives around with a toddler today, no sunscreen, no shade just out in the hottest part of the day with booze.

Then again they are Gaa mucksavages:D

Typical culchies

honerbright

I freckle. Freckles, freckles and more freckles. Then my already present freckles darken.


(Freckles is a weird word :pac: )

illuma

My grandmother was Portugese, so I'm a bit brown as it is, so I usually tan.

Sir Oxman

I burn, goddamit.

There are a lot of really stupid looking raw-red people walking around like victims of an H-bomb today.

entropi

Thread needs moar poll!


Burn first, then tan over a week or two.

Latchy

I use Coconut oil to get my gradual tan but those red faced people really need to put some protection on , before and after sun exposure .

Femme_Fatale

50+ SPF seems a bit extreme I think. And I'm lily-white. 30 does the job. A bit of sun is good for you.

Miss Lockhart

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

50+ SPF seems a bit extreme I think. And I'm lily-white. 30 does the job. A bit of sun is good for you.

But you just said you don't burn easily?

30 certainly doesn't do the job for many people. Sun allergies are also more common than you might think.


My family, except me, all tan beautifully. They're all gingers. I'm the only brunette.

entropi

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

But you just said you don't burn easily?

30 certainly doesn't do the job for many people. Sun allergies are also more common than you might think.


My family, except me, all tan beautifully. They're all gingers. I'm the only brunette.

The reign of daywalkers is upon us

Larianne

entropi wrote: »

Thread needs moar poll!


Burn first, then tan over a week or two.

G'way! You do not! :P

ScumLord

My great grandfather said there'd be no tans in this house and by jaysus he was right. I'm as red as a spanked arse.

MadYaker

I've got a really sexy farmers tan. Oh yeaaah.

deblacker

Prodigious wrote: »

Poll

^^^^ I second that, and I burn.

hfallada

I tan really easily even through im 100% irish and blue eyes. I have only ever burnt once and that was Orlando with no sun cream all day.

But its 2013 everyone should wear sun cream. Who wants to look 65 when they are 40 with all the sun damage. A tan is so 2001

whatlliwear

I just get freckles on my nose & cheeks & on my shoulders! Go a little red & then back to snow white again.. oh God bless my vampire white Celtic skin :rolleyes:

garv123

The lower part of my arms tan and the upper part will burn if I dont keep suncream on it but then it will tan..


I made the mistake of sitting outside a bar all day last sunday in 30+ heat, nowhere was open to buy suncream so I said feck it..
Oh how I regretted it. arms and legs were destroyed. It was torture wearing jeans in work all week.

Today the skin has decided to peel.. Its quiet satisfying peeling off large pieces of skin

Talib Fiasco

I burn first and then it turns into a tan gradually. When I was younger I'd get a perfect tan that would last for ages. Then in my mid teens I wouldn't tan at all, just burn and then go back to pale. Now in my late teens I'm starting to get back to normal.

You're having a laugh with 50+ in Ireland. You wouldn't need that in Cyprus. I know precaution and all that but f*ck it theres nothing wrong with a bit of colour.

Czarcasm

looking_around wrote: »

thats the worst way to tan.

tanning is supposed to a slow processes over weeks to months.

That kinda of tan is what causes icky peeling and skin cancer

It's not like I do it on purpose

I've been like that every Summer since I was a kid, always used to work outdoors. Nowadays if I'm outside for half an hour at all- hello lobster.

You're right though, as a child I used be stuck to the bedsheets with the peeling off my back, but nowadays I never go topless...

o_O

RossyG

My pasty white skin sizzles like a lobster on a barbecue.

I have developed a dark caramel colour over the last few days using a factor 8 oil. The secret to maintaining a colour is aftersun or cocoa butter. Keep that skin moisturised!

Oh, and wear a hat.

Butterface

I burn a bit on my chest and top of my arms but I usually only have factor 20 on me. It takes a few weeks to turn into a tan though.

Was outside playing tennis for hours today and had no suncream on my legs and they're still pasty white!

downonthefarm

got scalded few times when i was younger,so go brown now,but last couple of days have a reddish tinge

Festy

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

I'll leave this here.

I was expecting this

Mr.Prodston

Kind of both at the same time. My face and ears go red for a few hours before some sweet sweet tan. But my legs, the sluts that they are absorb the tan straight away and go all sexy and brown

pragmatic1

Never burn. Lots of melanin in the skin.

GalwayGuy2

I tan a little, but it makes me look more jaundiced than outdoorsy.

But never been burned:D

Aidric

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

My family, except me, all tan beautifully. They're all gingers. I'm the only brunette.

Gingers don't tan.

Miss Lockhart

Aidric wrote: »

Gingers don't tan.

Except when they do.