The war between sun worshippers/fakers

[caggimedicine]

Sometimes this winds me up so much! I've got very pale skin, and gave up trying to tan when I was in my teens. The best I can hope for from days and days of sun worshipping and sweating it out is a sun burn, followed by peeling, leaving me just as white as I was before.... so for me, there really is no point!

I used to hate being so pale when I was younger, but now i'm nearing my 30s, i've come to terms with my pale look and take pride in my wrinkle free skin. I've become a master of fake tan which I use sometimes on my legs (which are so white they almost look blue!)

I'm also not a huge fan of sitting in the sun - i'm the one you see sat under an umbrella with a nice cool drink, rather than the oiled up, sweating it out one!

But.... is this all good enough for some?? NO! My friend is a mad sun worshipper. She thinks that if it's sunny, and you're not out in the sun tanning, you're miserable and depressing. I get such a hard time about it.

 

[leedsforever]

arr thats crap... some ppl just dont enjoy it...

I like a tan, however hours on the beach I get bored...!! I tan really easily too so i dont need to sun bather constantly...

you would find me walking around with my black friend and in the bars for a cool drink (back in the day of girly hols)!!

 

[polo_princess]

See im a bit of a sun worshipper but i dont tan easily at all, im naturally quite pale .. it will take me ages to get going, then once i do i get really tanned.

My mum will sunbathe all day everyday if she could, honestly she is the most tanned person i've ever seen

Not wanting to sunbathe doesnt make you miserable though

 

[taperjeangirl]

I am with you on this one! I hate it when it is too hot, I burn easily so need tonnes of sunscreen on and most of the time cant be arsed so just stay in, or like you say, under a parasol!

Plus, now I have to get Daisy all covered in sunscreen too, it is even more unappealing!

Today has been my idea of hell! I love it when it is bright and cool, like at the end of summer just going into Autumn xxx

 

[sparkswillfly]

not wanting to sunbathe makes u sensible in all honesty! skin cancer is increasing so much. I spend a lot of time outdoors in the summer but I never really sunbathe.

 

[leedsforever]

My mum will sunbathe all day everyday if she could, honestly she is the most tanned person i've ever seen

Like my mum!!!

 

[tinkabells]

I am a tan-o-holic!!!
I do tan very easily, i go lobster then i turn a lovely golden brown, as im half hungarian i get my tan from my mum, she can sit in the sun for 5 mins and look black!!!
But as i cant go on sunbeds i've been fake baking since finding out, but as the weather has been so nice, since yesterday i have been sunning myself!!

I dont think people are boring or whatever cos they dont wanna sunbath, its down to eachs own, i love the sun and i no it sounds weird but i love the sweating feeling while sunbathing, dont ask me why, i no im weird!!! xxx

 

[jelly.belly]

I am a burner too girlies, I feel asleep under a parasole last Sunday and when I woke up, I swear I had burt so bad I could smell my own skin cooking it was horrid!! Have spent the last week covered in vasaline badages as I have 2nd degree burns all from just over an hour outside lol.
I normally have factor 60 suncream and everyone makes fun but as I was in the shade didnt bother BIG MISTAKE
For some its best to enjoy the sun from afar xx

 

[Mynxie]

I don't like to tan. I'm lily white and that's the way I like it. I am what I am

 

[babezone]

i must admit i love the sun and i usually go more brown then red...and if i burn a little it wil jus go brown...im not one that has to sunbathe all day i like walking wround catching the sun etc xx

 

[Vickie]

I don't tan Sunburn, peel, white just like you. But I do like being out in the warm weather

 

[CareBear]

I don't tan either and just burn and peel so I'm like you like to stay in the shade under a brolly!

 

[I want a bump]

The hotter the better for me - having grown up in lots of foreign countries, I love the sun and admit I am a sunworshiper.....I am the one who you will find slapping on the carrot oil on the last couple of days of holiday. I certainly dont think people who dont sunbathe are boring - if you burn or get bored there is no point doing it.

 

[candeur]

I'm the same, I'm really pale and always have been, and given up on ever getting a tan! It's completely impossible, Everyone gives me a hard time about not wanting to get down the beach and sunbathe as soon as the sun is out, and when I do I'm completely caked in suncream!
I went to Ibiza last year with my friend and he's as pale as I am, and on the beach down Bora bora among all these tanned people, he could see that I was feeling a bit uncomfortable so he goes to me "You know, we have the healthiest skin on the beach!" and that is definately more important to me!

 

[RedString]

I have the best of both worlds; if I go out in the sun, or to the beach for a day, and actually stay in the sun, I'll get a nice tan, and rarely burn. If I don't, or during the autumn/winter months, my skin is so pale I practically glow in the dark! And I've never really been huge on wearing shorts and things, so I'll often have a farmers tan, XD so my forearms, and just past my elbows will be fairly dark, but my shoulders are whiter than a blank sheet of printer paper.