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Tans : false, induced or otherwise.

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  • #32
    jaggeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    personally i dont like tanned skin at all, give me a girl with skin like snow any day :)


  • #33
    PersonalJesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭PersonalJesus


    For the definative thread on this topic see here


  • #34
    Tiffany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Tiffany


    I wouldn't touch the stuff, although I don't wear any make-up to begin with unless I'm going for the occasional rock-chick look.


  • #35
    Mocking Burd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭Mocking Burd


    Beruthiel wrote:
    really?
    where did you pull that percentage from?
    I wouldn't touch fake tan with a barge pole, I don't see the point of it and I'm sure I'm not the only woman who thinks like that.


    I totally agree Beruthiel. It seems to be a bit of an Irish obsession though, never heard it mentioned much in my years in England.

    The most ridiculous thing I've heard of is girls getting false tans done before they jet off to the sun. A friend of mine (who is very fair) is getting a full spray tan before she heads off to Greece. Her excuse is that she won't tan anyway. In this case if the tanning creams had some sun protection properties then I'd understand (a bit), but she'll have to wear a high factor cream also.


  • #36
    dynasty crew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭dynasty crew


    Sleepy wrote:
    Seriously ladies, fake tan always looks crap. There is no such thing as well applied fake tan, it's always obvious from closer than two metres (and even further back at times). It leaves your skin looking patchy, contributes to the "blemishes" which it claims to hide but doesn't and generally leaves ye looking cheap.
    I would say girls with a tan do generally look more attractive than pale skin, and I'd say most guys (maybe not but me anyway) don't notice hardly any difference between real tan and a fake tan, unless it's mad obvious. But then again I don't notice anything about a girl, e.g. once this girl was asking me did I notice anything different about her, thought to myself, "oh bollocks", obviously didn't have a clue what she was on about, luckily her friend came over and said how much she loves her new haircut!!


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  • #37
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I really don't like fake tan. Despite the fact I'm pasty pale...


  • #38
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    dynasty crew wrote:
    I'd say most guys (maybe not but me anyway) don't notice hardly any difference between real tan and a fake tan
    May I suggest a trip to the opticians?

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  • #39
    Kingsize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    Sleepy wrote:
    May I suggest a trip to the opticians?

    girls dont make passes at blokes who wear glasses (or something)


  • #40
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Who wants passes from girls you can't tell are good looking or not? :p

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  • #41
    maggz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭maggz


    Sleepy wrote:
    Who wants passes from girls you can't tell are good looking or not? :p

    You can still tell if a girls good looking when she wears fake tan. It only changes the colour of their skin?!


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  • #42
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Sorry maggz, afaic any girl wearing fake tan looks cheap and tbh, I'm not into tacky women so, yeah, I'd rather pass it up.

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  • #43
    maggz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭maggz


    I cant argue with your opinion. I do however think that the oompa lumpas out there have given the girls who actually know how to apply their tan a bad name.

    Most celebs that men love wear fake tan too, Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, J-Lo, Brittney etc.

    Its certainly better then exposing your skin to the sun and paying for it a number of years down the line, when you have skin cancer.


  • #44
    shellby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭shellby


    maggz wrote:
    Its certainly better then exposing your skin to the sun and paying for it a number of years down the line, when you have skin cancer.

    i completely agree with what you said there
    i would also like to say that i'm not cheap or cheap looking and i do where false tan, its expensive, properly applied and very light
    i wear good classy flatering clothes not tiny little t1t tops or skirts that could pass as belts
    i'm aware that all this makes me sound vain but i'm not, if wearing fake tan gives me a little more confidence because i have extremely pale legs than its my business it doesn't define my character or determine how i look entirely
    it allows me to wear a skirt without worrying and imoh with tights being my other option i think i'll stick to the fake tan


  • #45
    Kingsize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    maggz wrote:
    Most celebs that men love wear fake tan too, Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, J-Lo, Brittney etc. QUOTE]

    last time i checked none of the above looked like they were dipped in dog**** though (with the possible exception of paris hilton ),& i cant quite visualise any of them putting on their own fake tan & making a balls of it either.i dont reckon angelina jolie is too tanned anyway shes often pictured as quite pale,JLO is of hispanic or puerto rican descent & I wouldnt have thought that she needed it.Britney i havent seen in a while but from what i remember is a piece of white trash,which only leaves paris hilton who is orangey enough in my opinion.but if you are trying to say that women want to emulate these celebrities, then surely you would be wearing all the tit tops & short skirts that you so vehemently deny wearing.
    please also bear in mind most celebrity publicity shots are photoshopped /airbrushed beyond recognition.
    which has given rise to celebrity magazines always having a couple of pages of celebs looking rough.


  • #46
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    yeah - as far as I can see all the girls here claim they have nice fake tan and apply it correctly, unlike the rest of the oompah loompahs out there.

    I don't believe it for a second - I bet all the oompah loompahs think the same thing.

    But then I don't even like real tans, so who am I to say. Milk white all the way!


  • #47
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Civilian_Target wrote:
    yeah - as far as I can see all the girls here claim they have nice fake tan and apply it correctly, unlike the rest of the oompah loompahs out there.

    I don't believe it for a second - I bet all the oompah loompahs think the same thing.

    Well spotted there. I was thinking that myself.


  • #48
    shellby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭shellby


    Civilian_Target wrote:
    yeah - as far as I can see all the girls here claim they have nice fake tan and apply it correctly, unlike the rest of the oompah loompahs out there.

    I don't believe it for a second - I bet all the oompah loompahs think the same thing.

    But then I don't even like real tans, so who am I to say. Milk white all the way!

    women aren't idiots they can tell when they have made a botch of it the only reason you only see oompah loomphas in because you don't notice when it has been properly applied


  • #49
    dynasty crew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭dynasty crew


    Just came back from lunch there, saw some girl that I thought was looking well, obviously spent a bit of time getting herself ready this morning, then just noticed, yeah she probably is wearing fake tan, but she still looked hot and I must say I appreciated the time she spent putting it on, gave me something nice to look at for a few moments.
    Sleepy wrote:
    May I suggest a trip to the opticians?
    You may.


  • #50
    Baz_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    maggz wrote:
    Most celebs that men love wear fake tan too, Paris Hilton,

    In fairness now, any man that claims to love paris hilton is not in love with her looks or her fake tan, only good thing about that wrote off yoke is her money, even thats dirty...


  • #51
    maggz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭maggz


    Kingsize wrote:
    i dont reckon angelina jolie is too tanned anyway shes often pictured as quite pale.

    which proves my point that a lot of women simply wear it for a healthy glow

    As for saying that we want to be like these women, I was giving you examples of people everyone is familiar with, not saying we want to be like these celebs.


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  • #52
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    maggz wrote:
    I cant argue with your opinion. I do however think that the oompa lumpas out there have given the girls who actually know how to apply their tan a bad name.
    TBH, I find the streaks and splotches from a self-applied tan even more unattractive than the tangerine colour. Even a girl who's pretty good at doing fake-tan is going to look like a piece of streaky bacon because there are some spots you just can't reach, other's you can't see while you're applying it and (most commonly) areas that you just forget to cover. Combine that to the mess it makes of your hands and you look like you've just rolled around in the muck.
    Most celebs that men love wear fake tan too, Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, J-Lo, Brittney etc.
    I'd imagine that given how much time Angelina Jolie spends in Cambodia, her tan is quite genuine. The other three are just trashy slappers that I wouldn't touch with a disease ridden, twenty foot barge-pole (unless it was a swift blow across the back of the head).
    Its certainly better then exposing your skin to the sun and paying for it a number of years down the line, when you have skin cancer.
    Maybe, but it's still far below just accepting that you're Irish and will naturally have fair skin.

    And another thing, what's the deal with the dying your hair a bad shade of straw?

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  • #53
    dynasty crew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭dynasty crew


    Sleepy wrote:
    I'd imagine that given how much time Angelina Jolie spends in Cambodia, her tan is quite genuine. The other three are just trashy slappers that I wouldn't touch with a disease ridden, twenty foot barge-pole (unless it was a swift blow across the back of the head).
    See the guy's gay, so you don't have to worry about it maggz, go on ahead and wear fake tan!!


  • #54
    Dutchboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Dutchboy


    Does anyone remember the song from 'Charlie and the chocolate factory original'? Lol
    "Oompa Loompa, doopadeedooo", and so on.......
    Whenever i see the orange colour face and the white line around the hairline and behind the ears, Can't get that song out of my head! :p


  • #55
    Kingsize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    maggz wrote:
    not saying we want to be like these celebs.

    im sure 90% of iraqi men arent trying to look like saddam hussien but they cant all think that a big black 'tache suits them can they???


  • #56
    shellby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭shellby


    Sleepy wrote:
    And another thing, what's the deal with the dying your hair a bad shade of straw?


    and i suppose your gonna say that women with blonde hair look like idiots as well as cheap if they dare where fake tan with their "straw hair"


  • #57
    jaggeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    i love flicking water at girls with fake tan, they dont realise what they are doing when they go to wipe it, its already too late. HEY THERE STREAKY!


  • #58
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Sleepy wrote:
    Even a girl who's pretty good at doing fake-tan is going to look like a piece of streaky bacon because there are some spots you just can't reach

    Indeed - they must look funny when naked.


  • #59
    Kingsize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    follow the line of thinking & heres wher you end up


  • #60
    PiE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭PiE


    As someone else already mentioned: Tans just don't work on Irish people. Fake tans make Irish girls look cheap and real tans make them look sweaty and minging. Lose/lose.


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  • #61
    jaggeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    whos that dog kingsize?


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