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Do You Tan or Burn?

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  • 08-06-2013 7:56pm
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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭


    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?


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    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    Poll :)


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    #3
    topbloke
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭topbloke


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


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


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    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


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


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    #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Prodigious wrote: »
    Poll :)

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


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


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


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    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


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


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    El Guapo!
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    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?


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    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭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.


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    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    El Guapo! wrote: »
    Naked with an arrow through your cheeks?

    Which cheeks?


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    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #13
    Schism
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


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


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    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭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.


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    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


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

    Watch them all skip awkwardly past.


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    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    This thread is a trap for ginger people, isn't it.

    Watch them all skip awkwardly past.

    Ginger alert :pac:


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    #17
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    I'll leave this here.


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    #18
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭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 :D.


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    #19
    doyle61
    Registered Users Posts: 442 ✭✭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


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    looking_around
    Registered Users Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭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


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    ShooterSF
    Registered Users Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


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


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    #22
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭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.


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    Pumpkinseeds
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    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


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    Festy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭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


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    #25
    honerbright
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    I freckle. Freckles, freckles and more freckles. Then my already present freckles darken.


    (Freckles is a weird word :pac: )


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    #26
    illuma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭illuma


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


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    #27
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭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.


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    #28
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Thread needs moar poll!


    Burn first, then tan over a week or two.


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    #29
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭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 .


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    #30
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭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.


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    Miss Lockhart
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    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.


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