Sun tans

[Sureboss]

Can someone explain to me why people want to burn their skin?

 

[TB]

Vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

 

[Keef]

A slight tan is generally viewed as more healthy by people in some areas. It's just what people in certain areas have adapted to. A white Mexican probably wouldn't attract many chicks because he's "not right". Course, a tan Briton would be the same way, because British people just never were tan and never will be. It's a habitat kinda thing.

And then some stupid people think the tanner the better and decide to give themselves a Rasta jobbie. No. It just doesn't work like that. Natural skin colors always look better. Like me, I get pretty tan from the sun in the summer, and get noticably lighter in winter. If I was tan in winter I'd look retarded.

 

[livemusic]

If I was tan in winter I'd look retarded.

What's your point?




j/k

 

[Joey D]

I just get tan when I spend hours outside during the summer. I don't lay out in the sun in hopes of becoming a golden bronze, unless I'm on a nice white sandy beach while relaxing with a fruity drink.

 

[Mark T]

I don't tan, and to be honest I'd prefer not to. Have you seen how many wrinkles are caused by too much sun when you get older? I have a few freckles and moles so you'll normally find me under an umbrella avoiding the cancerous rays. Don't get me wrong, I love a walk in the sunshine as much as the next man but I'm not going to spend hours laying in the sun.

 

[kikie]

Some hundred (500 for ex) years ago, it was the opposite. The rich wanted to look white. Only poor peasants whom worked on the land had a tan.
Nowadays, someone with a tan is concidered to be healthy, rich (because they have a lot of spare time to relax in the sun, this is how it started) and attractive.

 

[YSSMAN]

Because of my Native American heritage I have a slightly darker tone of skin, so generally speaking, being tan is more or less a matter of looking fairly healthy to me. I really don't care to try and be the bronze/brown color that my Grandmother is year-round, but a darker shade is always nice.

...It makes you look like you spend enough time to take care of yourself, enjoy nature, and just be alive...

That being said; Tanning in the winer? No, I don't go out and purposely do it like some of my friends do. We live in Michigan, not Florida. You don't have to look tan from October through March.

 

[Pupik]

Some hundred (500 for ex) years ago, it was the opposite. The rich wanted to look white. Only poor peasants whom worked on the land had a tan.

It's always been a bit of a paradox: We do a lot of judging by the color of our skin, and generally we want to change the color of it. Go figure.

Me, I don't tan; I turn red. Living in the Sunshine State for 25 years has barely tanned me more than a shade or so, although my tolerance for sun as increased slightly.

I just can't believe we have tanning booths here, where the weather rarely dips below 70 degrees in the daytime.

 

[JosX]

I usually get a tan over the summer, but I don't go & lie on the beach for hours to get one, I've never thought it's worth the risk of cancer to have slightly darker skin.

1000th!

 

[Sniffs]

*tilts head* i was always puzzled by that in high school. everyone that dived under a booth came out the color of Milk Chocolate...while I come out the color of fresh Motor oil

YSS: I've got a dribble of Native American as well...about 4 generations back.

 

[Muzaffar]

Well I don't want to tan, but somehow I ended up being too tan (or to put it in another way, I got my skin burned) Not because I go sunbathe a lot or anything, but its just that I do play sports a lot (and also walking in the hot sun a lot) You guys are lucky the sun over there doesn't burn your skin a lot (and also the fact that you have winter) because here in Malaysia, we (as asians) would try to avoid getting in the sun cause its just too hot!!!! (and skin cancer) Yet, some Europeans come here and think that the sunshine is like their country and go tanning like as if it was nothing. Then they came back with a very very burned skin (like very red like that....)

 

[Omnis]

I don't tan, and to be honest I'd prefer not to. Have you seen how many wrinkles are caused by too much sun when you get older? I have a few freckles and moles so you'll normally find me under an umbrella avoiding the cancerous rays. Don't get me wrong, I love a walk in the sunshine as much as the next man but I'm not going to spend hours laying in the sun.

Anyway, I'm black as popcorn.


Lol, but even though I can be quite white I have red undertones and a lot of hair which makes me look a shade or two darker. When I do get a tan, it's more of a bronze than dark.

 

[OpheliaMontague]

There's a whole campaign in Australia at the moment against tanning because so many people get skin cancer. Even fashion magazines are trying to get tanning booths banned because they cause heaps of damage. Tanned skin is just damaged skin cells, there's nothing healthy about it at all.

When I was a kid I could have been mistaken for an Aborigine I was so brown. These days I rarely have time to just go out in the sun, but when I do I lather myself in sunscreen.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Because nowadays, in the UK it's seen as a sign of wealth.

Everyone knows you can't get a "natural" tan unless you go abroad. So people use fake tan or tanning beds to fool everyone. Except looking orange fools no-one.

However, I believe abit of a tan is a good thing. All these arguments that going out in the sun and being anything but bed-sheet white means you'll have skin cancer is scare tactics. Sure, there are alot of people who go to excess in search of a tan, but I don't think I'm confining myself to an early death everytime I take my top off in summer without plastering myself in sun cream. And goddamit its not my fault I tan easy enough that I appear Asian by September.

 

[Keef]

Tanned skin is just damaged skin cells, there's nothing healthy about it at all.

Exposure to the sun promotes vitamin D in your skin, and vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus. That makes for strong bones and farts that explode into flames!

 

[Danoff]

There's a whole campaign in Australia at the moment against tanning because so many people get skin cancer. Even fashion magazines are trying to get tanning booths banned because they cause heaps of damage.

Australians and their banhammer. I guess down under the concept of keeping something free "just because" is lost.

Besides, who wouldn't want to look like these guys:

 

[Joey D]

If tan skin is so bad how come the farmer back in the early 1900's didn't die in groves from cancer? There was no sunblock and they were outside for hours on end every day. I think maybe fake tanning might have something to do with it but I really can't see natural tanning from the sun.

 

[Keef]

If tan skin is so bad how come the farmer back in the early 1900's didn't die in groves from cancer? There was no sunblock and they were outside for hours on end every day. I think maybe fake tanning might have something to do with it but I really can't see natural tanning from the sun.

Global warming. We don't hardly have an ozone layer any more, you big duhmy.

 

[Joey D]

Global warming. We don't hardly have an ozone layer any more, you big duhmy.

Meh something is going to kill me, I'd rather be outside my entire life then white as a ghost inside.

 

[Omnis]

That's not the point, Joey. There's a huge difference between laying nude out in the sun and working on the field in your farmer overalls, long-sleeve shirt, and wide-brimmed hat.

 

[Joey D]

I don't know, I do archaeology and I dig in a t-shirt, jeans, and a bandanna...I don't even have a mole. Humans have been exposed to sunlight since they set foot on this earth.

 

[Azuremen]

Global warming. We don't hardly have an ozone layer any more, you big duhmy.

Eh, we do have alot of it. Its more that the guys that spent time out the fields wore shirts and coveralls and such, plus they had dirt and crap on them.

It is different than just sitting in the sun.

Another thing to note is genetics play a role in skin cancer. However, just because you tan doesn't mean you'll not get cancer, or vice versus.

I don't try to tan; it just happens from being outside. Though, I do get a farmer's tan as a result, but oh well.

 

[dimplz]

SKIN CANCERS....Australia's national cancer

 

[V1P3R]

I can remember a bunch of summers ago and it wasn't as hot and I could stand outside without feeling like I was getting burnt. Now these days during summer I can be in my car with short sleeves sitting at a light and the time I'm there I feel burnt... Global Warming.

 

[Sureboss]

If tan skin is so bad how come the farmer back in the early 1900's didn't die in groves from cancer? There was no sunblock and they were outside for hours on end every day. I think maybe fake tanning might have something to do with it but I really can't see natural tanning from the sun.

They probably did, but it the recording of deaths wasn't as accurate back then. You can't possibly be saying that it's a fallacy that over-exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer? Sun tan is the skin burning, it kills the cells. People should protect themselves, be it with clothing or sun block.

Interestingly, with Australia's big and growing problem in skin cancer, I've heard that their government is making make up companies put sun block into their products.

 

[Joey D]

People are to protective, just live life. Like I said during the summer I'm outside for 10 hours a day.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Global warming. We don't hardly have an ozone layer any more, you big duhmy.

Wrong. Global warming and the Ozone layer have little to do with each other.

Global warming is to do with the build up of green house gasses building up in the atmosphere and magnifying teh sunlight or trapping thermal heat into teh atmosphere.

The Ozone problem is when chemicals attack the Ozone (Oxygen3 molecoules) depleting the atmosphere's ability to filter out UV light.

 

[kikie]

Sun exposure = vitamin D but don't overdo it. If the UV-radiation damages your DNA, you could get skin cancer.

 

[zoxxy]

Big fat LOL @ everyone who thinks that you're getting burned today but not 10 years ago because of global warming. The skin changes during the years, as a child I (my mom) was using 35 SPC (sp?) sun lotion and I'd still get mad burns. Today I skate all day without a shirt on in blazing sun and I only get nice and brown.