Question for chicks who tan.... - Page 2

Dionysus · #1 02-03-2003, 08:33 PM

White people getting tans is along the same line of some black females getting "weave", simmering pressed locks, relaxers, using Pink moisterizer, etc. It doesn't mean much.

Peaches-n-Cream · #2 02-03-2003, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
CTFU!!! You said it! I am just about as white as a person can be, and I never understood the desire to tan. I guess that's why people always think I'm about 7 years younger than I am.

Me, too! What I don't understand is why people have to point out that I am really pale. As if I didn't know that.

Right now my very white mom is in Hawaii wearing SPF 45.

James · #3 02-03-2003, 10:06 PM

This is your best bet . . also start removing the towel for like 5 minutes . . and then slowly increasing the time without the towel.

I am tan most of the year. I tan easily and dark. Come to think of it I haven't tanned in a while not good . . . its great in winter because it warms you up, subjectively at least .

Or screw it, use a stand up. We have the 8 minute ones that are really popular now. Tan all over no burn.

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Originally posted by MoxieGrrl
I put a towel under my butt when I'm laying on my back in the tanning bed. When I flip over to my stomach, I take it off so I don't get tanlines.

starang21 · #4 02-03-2003, 10:36 PM

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Originally posted by White_Chocolate
I always start laughing hilariously when the subject of tanning comes up. . .

Why are white people trying to get dark?
What's wrong with your original color?

Maybe I just don't get the whole tanning thing. Toasting the skin cells with 'harmless' ultraviolet rays on purpose. One of my friends, who is biracial, tans so that people can tell that she's biracial. I just shake my head.

Then again, I guess being black, you don't have to worry about stuff like that. I'm already tan. Lucky me, huh?

i think that same stuff too. i didn't even think it was real until i moved out from the northeast. and for some reason, i always thought guys who did it were you know....happy. but then again, i've never had that kinda problem, so i guess it's not for me to say.

James · #5 02-03-2003, 10:56 PM

I'm a pretty happy guy most of the time . . .

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Originally posted by starang21
i think that same stuff too. i didn't even think it was real until i moved out from the northeast. and for some reason, i always thought guys who did it were you know....happy. but then again, i've never had that kinda problem, so i guess it's not for me to say.

jennybloch · #6 02-03-2003, 11:11 PM

To me it seems like people who tan for a really long time start to have skin with a "leatheresque" quality. Kinda creepy.

starang21 · #7 02-03-2003, 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by James
I'm a pretty happy guy most of the time . . .

hahaha, i'm not mad at you

juniorgrrl · #8 02-04-2003, 01:20 AM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
The Pakastani woman I used to work with couldnt understand it either. She was like, "in a culture where the media has historically put such an overemphasis on "whiteness" as being the desired, why do you as a white kid, try to get sun?" And ya know, I could never explain it to her. I have since eliminated my exposure to the sun. Skin cancer is prevalant in mi familia. Plus, I dotn wanna look like a wallet when I am 50. Coem on, skin isnt supposed to make a sound when you walk. My aunt was always in the sun and she looked like she used to bob for apples in a deep fat fryer. I never could tell if she was original recipie, or extra crispy. My friend Les has fake baked so much she now looks like a photo negative. She has that healthy orange glow.

ROFL@ the wallet comment! I'm about as pasty as they come - I burn if I *think* about sun. I'm the kind of person that can get burned from riding in the car. I'll fake bake in the summer, just to avoid that super-pasty look.

I already look much younger than I am - and I plan to keep on looking that way. I wear SPF 15 daily, and if I"m going out into the sun for any prolonged period of time, I wear SPF 45.

Hooray for pasty people!

FiReKraCkEr · #9 02-04-2003, 01:20 AM

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Originally posted by UF_PikePC98
I didn't want to look stupid and ask the chick behind the counter, but how do you keep your butt from getting burned or slightly baked when you use the tanning bed? Do you put on some sort of sunblock on that area?

I'm not a chick, but a women by the way....

To answer the original question, though I don't know why I even bother....

When you're tanning take the towel they provide for you and lay it on top of your bottem (or under) when tanning. Not the whole time, but for a few minutes while the rest of your body is tanning.

damasa · #10 02-04-2003, 01:23 AM

What do you do if you want to tan just your booty?! I hear that sort of thing is in these days...

FiReKraCkEr · #11 02-04-2003, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by damasa
What do you do if you want to tan just your booty?! I hear that sort of thing is in these days...

Wear a body suit and cut out the ass part and bake it!!!

Actually, it's very easy...

Ivory

UF_PikePC98 · #12 02-04-2003, 01:51 AM

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Originally posted by KDatUTC
I'm not a chick, but a women by the way....

To answer the original question, though I don't know why I even bother....

If you don't know why you're answering, then get the hell out of my thread. You can come back once you realize why you want to post in here.

FiReKraCkEr · #13 02-04-2003, 01:59 AM

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Originally posted by UF_PikePC98
If you don't know why you're answering, then get the hell out of my thread. You can come back once you realize why you want to post in here.

Don't be such a D*CK! Why do you assume I was even referring to YOU when I made that comment? What? Are you paranoid?

I meant that since no one even bothered to answer your question and turned the whole thread in a different direction, than why should I answer it? I was being sarcastic. Maybe you should look that up.

Oh, I can't wait for the response! I bet it will say something about me being Korean or a "chick".....
This I can't wait to read!!<- an example of sarcasim

nucutiepie · #14 02-04-2003, 06:03 AM

I've only booth tanned once in my life before (before fall formal, i went two or three times to get rid of tanlines - i wore a strapless dress)

but I am suffering from the winter blahs big time...I may go once just to test if it does help SAD related type stuff

#15 02-04-2003, 08:13 AM

Everytime I think of tanning salons I think of that really nasty and wrinkly old lady from "There's Something about Mary". M-something...Minerva?

My genes guarantee me a perfect tan 24/7/365 and I'm thankful for it. I really don't understand how tanning salons stay in business in Hawaii.