Tans

Option 1. - Burnt Red?:eek:
Option 2. - Deathly white.:icon_sad:
Option 3. - Bright orange.:lol:

Oops...:la:

 

TriBi has covered most of the options with exceptional precision and brevity. The only other option is to acquire a slow, natural tan beginning with 10 or 15 minutes per day and increasing the dose until you can endure an hour or so. The spray tan is like the cream stuff which fades and washes away irregularly, giving you all the symptoms of a fatal skin disease, not to mention the colorful hue of a walking carrot:icon_bigg .

Of course, that's easy for me to say. I get 3 shades darker just listening to a sunny weather forecast or "Sunny Afternoon" by the Kinks.

What's wrong with white anyway?

 

Fake spray tans scare me.


Pale is beautiful.

 

Why not just try to get a real tan? It isn't quite as instant, but you can't beat the real thing!

 

Oh well - as long as you're happy...

I'm just interested about what happens if you combine (from my post) #3 with #1.

Burnt Orange?

I have to admit I don't go out of my way these days to get a tan - but I spend so much time out of doors (often training) that I tend to get quite a good tan anyway...pretty much year round.

Oh well - it's all about instant gratification these days I guess...:la:

(Sorry Dave - you know I'm just pulling your leg!)

 

I want to get a tan soon too. I look kinda pale lately and a nice tan would make my piercings hotter.

I hear you have to be a pro with Spray Tan, or else it's all just messy and uneven. I wanted to get tan-towels but it wears off unevenly within a week (or so I heard), and that just won't work. It's also expnesive because you're only fully-tanned for like 3 days.

The best way is the natural one but that dries your skin and makes you start aging earlier.

Advice?

 

And raises your risk for skin cancer, don't forget. People shouldn't tan period. I mean, okay, if you are outside during the summer and you get some sun, fine. But lying in the sun baking yourself? Basically you're subjecting yourself to very slow radiation poisoning because a bunch of people got together and decided darker skin was better than paler skin. Why risk cancer when you can use sunblock?

Given that, I guess if you absolutely must be tanned, the fake tan is the way to go. Provided it doesn't have poisonous chemicals in it. I wouldn't know--I've never looked into it.

 

Thanks! Really helpful...

I get a tan preety easily. It takes me like 30 minutes in the sun to get color.

10 minutes a day still dries your skin to the point of wrinkles though, right? It's not worth it if it does... I think it only lowers your chance of skin cancer and being sunburnt, but still affects your skin, especially the area under the eyes.

Have you tried a moisturizer? Sounds good

I'd definitely need a professional to apply the spray tan, but it's a trouble to go every week and make sure your tan stays strong, especially when I have school and it's just dumb to show up pale 2 days after you were kinda dark. BUT let me know how long it stays Did you apply the spray tan yourself? I know some do it horrible to themsleves... The price is preety good though, that means you pay 80$ and you're tanned for a month. That's IF it actually lasts a week. They always say it lasts "up to to a week..." which technically means it can lose tan within one DAY.

 

I totally agree.

About this time of year, I really stop caring about getting tan (i don't care that much during the summer, but care even less right now).

I usually wear a sweatshirt all the time. All you can usually see of my skin is my face, hands, and occasionally arms (when i roll up my sleeves to wash my hands).

Ah, well. To each, his own.

 

Where I'm from, it's a little cold for pool parties. It snowed yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that it won't be warm again for another couple months. Oh, how I love living in Michigan...

 

Couple of months?! Lucky you! Here in Vancouver it probably won't stop raining until May or June, although recently we had the snowstorm of the century. Well, it felt like it, although compared to the rest of Canada it probably seemed minor.

 

In the UK we are lucky if it stops raining for a couple of weeks in the summer!

 

We can usually count on 6 weeks... 8 if we're lucky. Not that it rains constantly the rest of the time but it sure seems like it.