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    So, how tan are you???

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    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      By the end of summer, I'm so dark I have to use "ivory" instead of "bisque" foundation. :noway:
    • Posts: 6,376 Member
      I'm reflective. Proudly so.
    • Posts: 1,809 Member
      <---- This tan for me. Why are you all laughing?
    • Posts: 6,400 Member
      Recent convo with gym buddy:

      Me: you probably can't really tell but I actually got some color this weekend
      Her: hmmm
      Me: (lifting my shirt to show the difference between my ultra white belly and slightly tan arm) See?
      Her: Ok, but you're definitely not one of my browner friends
      Me: Yeah, I AM the whitest white girl
      Her: You are the fairest of them all.

      LOL!! I love her...
    • Posts: 3,669 Member
      Saw that woman on CNN when I was at the gym and almost flew off the treadmill in horror!

      I don't purposely tan anymore, and wear a lot of sunblock. My husband has had melanoma removed several times (first time in his 20's), so we don't mess around when it comes to sunblock.

      That reminds me though....I was planning to throw out all of my old sunblock and replace it with new this year....
    • Posts: 417 Member
      If I get enough sun, I get lots of freckles and it kinda makes me look tan, does that count??
    • Posts: 1,873 Member
      the guys from jersey shore ask for a fatboypup when they tan
    • Posts: 7,173 Member
      If I get enough sun, I get lots of freckles and it kinda makes me look tan, does that count??

      Well...if you played "connect-the-dots" with all of my freckles, you'd color me in...so maybe that counts?
    • Posts: 1
      I'd say I'm fairly tanned...
    • Posts: 1,298 Member
      I couldn't resist. I saw that woman on TV the other night.


      holy crap - i saw that. crazy.
    • Posts: 351 Member
      I'm the palest Hispanic person I know at the moment!

      But the second Summer's here, I'll be quite tan--with the benefit of never burning! (Hooray genetics!)
    • Posts: 451 Member
      White as a ghost and I work hard to stay that way. I just burn and peel anyway, and I am paranoid about skin cancer.
    • Posts: 7,560 Member
      Not
      Whiter than rice.
    • Posts: 137 Member
      About as tan as Nicole Kidman.
    • Posts: 8
      I'm a whiter shade of pale. :)
    • Posts: 839
      I'm shocked you aren't blinded by my whiteness through the computer screen. Let's just say hubby calls me his alabaster princess. Does that tel you how NOT tan I am? LOL! I used to do tanning beds when I was younger too. No more. I do hope to get a little color this summer but won't go nuts. I might even try airbrush tanning before our friend's wedding. ;)
    • Posts: 1,438 Member
      I wear blue to match the visible veins in my body.
    • Posts: 14,529 Member
      pillsbury_doughboy.jpg
    • Posts: 2,096 Member
      I tan very easily.
    • Posts: 3,966 Member
      I'd say I'm fairly tanned...

      It's decent. Ha.
    • Posts: 7,870 Member
      All of MFP saw how tan I am NOT earlier today.

      I glow in the dark.
    • Posts: 356 Member
      WHITE as a ghost. So ready to get out in some sun!
    • Posts: 537 Member
      Hardly at all, I'm German...we don't tan so well lol
    • Posts: 7,173 Member
      I glow under a black light...
    • Posts: 44
      How tan am I? I'm just brown. :wink:
    • Posts: 1,132 Member
      The tannest I have ever been is my current profile picture. I definitely am more on the fair skin side and try to stay far away from the sun without a solid spf 50 on :) (shhh don't tell but it was totally with the help of fake tanners ;) )
    • Posts: 2,005 Member
      I HATE sun.. so im terrible white, even tho im a latina. Thats why I rarely use skirts, I have chicken legs! LOL
      My bf is white, and im whiter than him! , no kidding. The last time I went to the caribbean people asked me if i was british due to my skin color haha
    • Posts: 226 Member
      I wear 100 SPF YEAR ROUND!!! And, I still manage to get burned quite a bit. I LOVE the outdoors, so I have to be ultra careful April thru October! Have had several 2nd degree sunburns....one requiring 4 medical peels!!!! I have 4 siblings. They all have dark brown hair, deep brown eyes and tan like nobodys business just working/playing outdoors. I have brownish-red hair, bluw to green eyes and turn pink within minutes of being in the sun. I think I was adopted! :)
    • Posts: 133
      <--natural tan ;)
    • Posts: 44
      I'm from Italian descendants, so I have olive skin which is naturally very tan (even during Winter). Despite the fact that the doc' told me that my skin type is the least likely to develop skin cancers (after I had a scare last year, with a funny mole), I always use SPF50 when I'm in the sun for a prolonged amount of time (holidays) and SPF 15 when I'm at home.

      Skin cancer is no laughing matter. Just be comfortable with your skin, and stay far far far away from sunbeds.
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