I laugh because a close friend of mine once told me I was 'disgusting'......... Ruth would slather sun lotion all over like basting a turkey, and NOTHING would happen. She did not get red or even pink, NOTHING yet the lotion promised to protect her against UV/UA rays but let her tan......... I would use none, and later I would look lightly blushed and then following day it would be all tan (we would spend same time in the sun) It has always been that way. My sister does tan somewhat but she also breaks out in freckles......LOTS of them like our mother did....... I tan like our father did I no longer spend any real time in the sun though....I have had five basal cell carcinomas removed from my face Thank God not melanoma
I used to tan wonderfully when I was younger, but I also went outside a lot more. These days, not so much, so I go straight to red. It makes me a little nervous about skin cancer, sometimes, even though I don't get sunburned that often (in fact I haven't been sunburned in years until now).
I hear you. I have never had anything remotely resembling a tan. I burn, blister and peel. Even SPF 50 and up barely allows me to sit outdoors after the height of the sun has passed - and that would be under shade. I once got a sunburn sitting in my living room because I fell asleep near the window and the drapes were open.
I also had a heat exhaustion/heatstroke episode at an amusement park ending up in me being removed from the place on a stretcher. However, I did wonder if a contributing factor (other than heat and humidity) was my heavy use of high SPF sunblock. I wonder if it prevented adequate heat evaporation. I know I was drinking a lot so that was probably not as big a factor.
I also had a heat exhaustion/heatstroke episode at an amusement park ending up in me being removed from the place on a stretcher.
Oh, yikes! :S I hate SPF. It leaves your skin feeling smothered and if you don't remember to keep putting it on it doesn't do any good, and I always forget to put it on again.
I used to tan just fine when I was younger. But these days I don't get out as much so go straight to being burned.
My skin is resistant to everything. I was in Hawaii once. My friend from college and I went to the beach everyday. Around 8 am we started towards the beach, but on the third day this man stopped me and said to please stop... That is was embarrassing. He'd watched us walk past for 3 days and I was still untanned... By the end of 7 days, I had a lovely Hawaiian tan. It took floating on the surface of Hanauma Bay (coral and snorkling) to force my skin to change color...
Ah, I miss those days of being able to tan gradually. I used to be pretty good at it back when I was a kid and went swimming a lot. I guess it's a conditioning thing - although how one goes from being able to gradually tan to immediately beet red, I have no idea.
ROTFL. Oh yes, you have my empathy. So very much. As I have often said, my own skin only has two settings: "ghost" or "toast". I either look like I've not spent so much as an hour outside in my life, or... bright red.
Considering my grandpa's history with skin cancer and his dire warnings, I don't really spend time deliberately tanning, but still... would be nice to manage a bit less blinding whiteness without going straight to tomato. XD
I think there must be some kind of conditioning involved, because I used to be able to tan just fine and now I can't. My sister was right about me "burning up" every time I go outside into the sun because I don't get out enough :/
Yeah, skin cancer makes me nervous thanks to all the stories I've heard. Now every time I get sunburned I check myself for dark moles.
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Date: 2012-05-29 01:24 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 01:27 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 01:34 am (UTC)From:Ruth would slather sun lotion all over like basting a turkey, and NOTHING would happen. She did not get red or even pink, NOTHING yet the lotion promised to protect her against UV/UA rays but let her tan.........
I would use none, and later I would look lightly blushed and then following day it would be all tan (we would spend same time in the sun)
It has always been that way.
My sister does tan somewhat but she also breaks out in freckles......LOTS of them like our mother did.......
I tan like our father did
I no longer spend any real time in the sun though....I have had five basal cell carcinomas removed from my face
Thank God not melanoma
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Date: 2012-05-29 02:19 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 01:49 am (UTC)From:I also had a heat exhaustion/heatstroke episode at an amusement park ending up in me being removed from the place on a stretcher. However, I did wonder if a contributing factor (other than heat and humidity) was my heavy use of high SPF sunblock. I wonder if it prevented adequate heat evaporation. I know I was drinking a lot so that was probably not as big a factor.
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Date: 2012-05-29 02:17 am (UTC)From:Oh, yikes! :S I hate SPF. It leaves your skin feeling smothered and if you don't remember to keep putting it on it doesn't do any good, and I always forget to put it on again.
I used to tan just fine when I was younger. But these days I don't get out as much so go straight to being burned.
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Date: 2012-05-29 03:05 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)My skin is resistant to everything. I was in Hawaii once. My friend from college and I went to the beach everyday. Around 8 am we started towards the beach, but on the third day this man stopped me and said to please stop... That is was embarrassing. He'd watched us walk past for 3 days and I was still untanned... By the end of 7 days, I had a lovely Hawaiian tan. It took floating on the surface of Hanauma Bay (coral and snorkling) to force my skin to change color...
My skin still won't change voluntarily...
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Date: 2012-05-29 03:40 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 05:02 am (UTC)From:stupid LJ...
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Date: 2012-05-29 03:22 am (UTC)From:Considering my grandpa's history with skin cancer and his dire warnings, I don't really spend time deliberately tanning, but still... would be nice to manage a bit less blinding whiteness without going straight to tomato. XD
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Date: 2012-05-29 03:42 am (UTC)From:Yeah, skin cancer makes me nervous thanks to all the stories I've heard. Now every time I get sunburned I check myself for dark moles.