Goths and Tanning

[Msterbeau]

Does anyone else hear Pee Wee Herman singing "Connect The Dots"????

Way to kill the mood Brenda... LOL!!!

[Msterbeau]

both sound like a grand ole time if I do say so myself... and I do  :innocent

*gulp* :blink

[Brenda Starrr]

La la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Connect the dots!

La la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Connect the dots!

[Fierce Critter]

OWEEOWEEEOWEEOWEE!!!

Jon and I went fishing today. Sat in the sun for 7 hours, most of the time with a small umbrella over me. I still burned like a mofo - I am SO red, so in pain, and SO UNEVEN!!!

Gads. I'd have worn sunblock if I'd have known this would happen.

OWEE!!!

[Rivers the Cleric]

i think i'm a mutant, or something. but as a goth, and genetically.

i'm irish, scottish, and german...

i have never had a sunburn in my life, and i tan so easily that after about an hour, i look quite hispanic.... people will actually walk up to me, and start speaking to me in spanish...

last summer while i was fixing the roof to my garage, i spend an average of 7 hours a day in the sun, for over a week.... i had an amazingly deep tan, and was completely fine...

the rest of my family burns like milk in a frying pan.

[capuchin]

I don't ever try to tan. But I do have a preference for warmer climates so I get away whenever I can (for example, I went to Tucson for my birthday this past April) and will spend time outside so I usually get a bit of burn on my shoulder and arms. I'm naturally pretty pale--I'm both Irish and Italian but the Irish is more dominant in terms of my complexion.

[Kitten]

Well i dont tan persay, i'm naturally darker skinned, and i think my arms an face get a tan from the radiation my monitor puts out (every waking moment infront of this thing)

Off to work i go!

~Kitten

[bean]

When I was younger I had an even skin tone, but as I've gotten older my skin has gotten blotchy, and tanning helps hide it. I am normally very pale, but I don't burn. It takes forever for me to get a tan...4 visits to the VHR for 12 minutes each gives me a light tan (I skip the regular bed and HEX because I just waste my time in those). I'm Italian, Sicilian, Romanian and Hungarian, so I can tan really dark, but I only tan dark enough to even my skin out. I moisturize like crazy so I don't get the "leather" look. I look better with a tan and I like the little freckles I get around my eyes and on my nose.

[slingerlandstyx]

When I was younger I had an even skin tone, but as I've gotten older my skin has gotten blotchy, and tanning helps hide it.  I am normally very pale, but I don't burn.  It takes forever for me to get a tan...4 visits to the VHR for 12 minutes each gives me a light tan (I skip the regular bed and HEX because I just waste my time in those).  I'm Italian, Sicilian, Romanian and Hungarian, so I can tan really dark, but I only tan dark enough to even my skin out.  I moisturize like crazy so I don't get the "leather" look.  I look better with a tan and I like the little freckles I get around my eyes and on my nose.

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:grin :innocent

[Fierce Critter]

The severe sunburn I got last weekend turned into tiny little blisters all over my shoulders & chest this Saturday.

I've never had anything like that happen to me, and it was damn near horrific.

I'll be slathering on the sunblock from now on. I wonder if this is because I'm 700 miles south of Michigan. I got sunburns in Michigan, but never anything like this.

[bean]

I'm going to Arizona in either July or August, so I will be getting dark and freckled hehe :grin

[Head Wreck]

been invited to a wedding, poss in arizona. i'm going to die official.

not used to warm climates. too used to living between sea and mountain and plenty of drizzle

[bean]

Yeah, I'm not sure how I will handle the heat, I complain if it gets close to 80 degrees...but I hear it's windy there and I like the wind.

[Paper Hearts]

80? Depending on which part of Arizona, it could be 110F before the sun rises. Also, Wind + Desert = Sandstorm. Ouch.

[paradox]

desert = dry heat. dry heat = 10,000,000 x better than humidity.

85 and 80% humidity is enough to make ya sweat balls here in michigan.

but a 110 with 20% humidity or less is freaking beautiful! i mean, yea, its hot, but ya dont sweat. not like with humidity. i went to vegas a year or two ago in august for a buddys wedding. it was about 110ish every day we were there, but i loved it. just dont leave the car in teh sun for more than a few minutes, or leave the windows down...cause it can get REAL hot in there in the day...

yes, deserts are hot, but dry heat is very, very different from a humid heat. trust me, i know. i sweat my @$$ off every summer in my job...

[Paper Hearts]

I disagree, I've lived in AZ for a couple years.

Here's the difference that i noticed:

When it's 95 here, with the humidity, it can feel like 100 or so.

When it's 130 there with dry heat, it just feels like 130 but 130 or 133 is really much hotter than 100 anyway you look at it. I remember if you had a car w/out AC there it was actually cooler to drive around with your windows up because if you opened them, it felt like a blowdryer.

[paradox]

heres what i know. 85+ degrees in michigan, unless by some freak miracle its NOT at least 55% humidity, im sweating by 10:30. i start my day at 6 or 7, depending. i walk around all day in long pants, rubber boots, rubber gloves and a hard hat with a face shield, hauling about 900ft of pressurized hose behind me, around houses...

by 2:30 im hot enough to feel ill most days. and i drink water by the half gallon.

the day of the wedding in vegas, i was running around in a suit and tie and it felt fabulous. even walking across the blacktop in direct sun at 1:00.

maybe i wasnt there long enough, and no i wasnt working but i tell ya, not once did i sweat. it was great. i loved it.

the heat here is much worse.

[bean]

I hate humidity. I'll be in northern Arizona, so maybe it will only get to 105 or something..haha.

[Paper Hearts]

Northern Az is not so bad as far as heat is concerned, especially not northeastern Az, around Flagstaff, and Las Vegas, in Nevada, is not quite as bad as Southern Az either (re: Pardox's post).

What i noticed about Az is that sweat would actually evaporate before it had a chance to form drops, so you thought maybe you weren't sweating as bad...but make no mistake, they find people in the desert dead of dehydration all the time there.

I've yet to feel like any day has been hot since leaving. I may sweat more and i may even burn more here because the sunlight is magnified by the moisture in the air here like how a crystal works, but i can not say that i have ever felt heat like i did there. People party in the streets there when it rains. It sucks.

[Soulrev]

"Goths and Tanning"

I don't want to hear those two words in a sentence ever again.

[Brenda Starrr]

"Goths and Tanning"

I don't want to hear those two words in a sentance ever again.

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Pfft.....

What are you going to do to me if I say "goths and tanning" in the same sentence? Oh. wait. I just did.

[Msterbeau]

Pfft.....

What are you going to do to me if I say "goths and tanning" in the same sentence? Oh. wait. I just did.

You're such a rebel.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I went tanning. :fear

[tabycat]

I don't have to go into the sun for my freckles to leap out of hiding. The warm weather started and BOOM there they are . . . it's like my freckles sense the heat and say ok I give up and bare their lil brown faces. Wish I knew how to keep them in hiding . . . sunblock doesn't work not even to keep me from turning pink.

One of my middle school teachers said that freckles are where the sun has kissed me.... well the sun is a fucking pervert cause I think it's been making out with me!!!!!

[Dollardave]

I like to tan and do every year.