I don’t understand it either.
Not that I was ever one to sunbathe for long. I am fair-complected and I burn, then blister and peel, within 30 minutes.
I admit I did try when I was younger because I have always longed to have pretty brown skin. But, it didn’t last long. It was so boring just lying there.
P.S. The image is the property of simpleinsomnia and she allowed me to share and slightly modify it. You simply must check out her collection of photos on Flickr if you like found photos as much as I do.
I’m with you a 100%, I did the same. But the payback is we don’t have a wrinkled face, lol
Well, it’s wrinkled but maybe not as wrinkled as it would be otherwise. LOL!
I did the same thing…I so longed to have that tanned skin that was so expected of my generation. I am paying the price now with constant skin cancer removals and the scars left behind. Kudos to the younger generation not so caught up with tanning. I see younger women all the time now with pale skin and it looks so creamy and beautiful…seems even popular in Hollywood.
I can definitely relate. Why is it that so many things that were “in” now were not in fashion when I was growing up. Same things with perms and straight hair. Straight hair is so “in” now.
I am Hispanic and have brown skin. I rarely burned. Even so, I am now paying the price of not wearing sunscreen for all those years that I played out in the sun. I have sun damage on my face that I cannot remove unless I want to spend big bucks in a dermatologist’s office. I see women with lovely, creamy, pale skin and I cannot imagine wanting to purposely damage it by baking in the sun or tanning booth.
I have pale, oily skin and have only recently started using moisturizer. Every product I’ve ever tried broke me out badly. Now I’m wishing I’d visited a dermatologist way back when.
We, as a big family, go to the ocean once a year. We put up beach canopies, slather sunscreen on everyone-especially repeating on the babies, pass sandwiches, tell stories, laugh a lot, read books, and sometime during the long day take a sunny nap with the sounds of seagulls and children’s squeals in the background. It’s a ritual, a memory, hopefully cancer is not a result of it.
That is indeed a beautiful memory and I’m so happy you shared it with me, La Verne. I was raised in North Texas where there is little shade and flat, flat land, so I always had to slather up to prevent getting burned. Still, I didn’t like to — I hated the smell and the greasy feel — but always got burnt … a few times very badly. I hope that does not result in skin cancer one of those days.
I was born in 1956. Back then, you oiled yourselves. We know better now, so why don’t we follow the medical science? I’ve never “laid out”. It looked so boring. I also was not a sun worshiper, but I damaged my skin. Recently, I had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my cheek. Now I had the proof I needed to tell my grandchildren to protect their skin. I showed them the scar that really isn’t noticeable until I point it out. {The dermatologist did a good job in closing my wound.} I also have damage to my shoulders. I wear a “farmer’s tan” on my arms and neck, but I am very white from there down. Now, when I spend time in the sun, it is to do something that needs to be done, but my wife takes care of most of that. She wears sun screen, and I remind her to rub it onto her ears and back of her neck. Take care of your skin, folks, because it’s the only covering you’ll get!
Wow, your comments makes me think I need to make a dermatologist appointment at least once a year. I recently started to wear sunscreen every single day underneath my makeup. If anything, perhaps it will help prevent additional wrinkles from materializing too quickly.