All-Star Nightline Episode

[cheermomforever]

Most of my daughters teammates spray tanned until last year when we got white uniforms. . All mom's agreed we did not want to have to worry about how to get off sweat spray tanned marks! I have to agree my daughters white legs Looked better with a little color though. Kind of frustrating if a tan team really scores better!


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[kristenthegreat]

I had no idea all of this pale shaming went on.

Loads of times- I just ignored people because my mother's had some cancerous moles removed and my inner thoughts went: Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. NO knives for me, thank you. And no wrinkles. Lather on that sunscreen baby! I do tan incidentally (due to my Italian side). I try to avoid it as much as I can, and I already have a few moles I'm cautious about due to location and size.

I do know about 'dark shaming' (I suppose if you want to call it that- there is a name for it I'm sure) that exists in places in East Asia (particularly Japan/South Korea and India). There was something going around last year that Miss New York (Nina Davuluri- She went on to win Miss America 2013. She's Indian-American) would NEVER have won Miss India because she was 'too dark.' The amount of lightening creams they sell in those countries is astronomical.

 

[vannahlexis]

I'm from the north and almost every year our entire team tanned in beds. Not for cheering, necessarily, but just because. Most of the girls and guys I know tan during the winter. This year I tanned during the spring so I wouldn't burn when summer hit. I should probably stop, considering how bad it is for you. I've just always done it haha

 

[getsum]

suggesting to some poor little light skinned white girl to darken her skin, especially in the name of "uniformity", is akin to asking a dark skinned black girl to lighten her skin to meet the tanned white girls and light brown black girls half way to the middle tan/light brown skin spectrum. kinda creepy tbh.

theyre already wearing the same uniform. imo, thats as uniform as they need to get.

 

[ErinS]

I do know about 'dark shaming' (I suppose if you want to call it that- there is a name for it I'm sure) that exists in places in East Asia (particularly Japan/South Korea and India). There was something going around last year that Miss New York (Nina Davuluri- She went on to win Miss America 2013. She's Indian-American) would NEVER have won Miss India because she was 'too dark.' The amount of lightening creams they sell in those countries is astronomical.

Colorism. The amount of lightening creams they sell in America is astronomical

RIP old Lil Kim.

The Dark skin vs light skin "battle" among black people on America is disgusting.


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[kristenthegreat]

Colorism. The amount of lightening creams they sell in America is astronomical

RIP old Lil Kim.

The Dark skin vs light skin "battle" among black people on America is disgusting.


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Magazines get flak for it all the time- adjusting dark skinned girls to make them 'lighter.' Well, magazine photoshop in general makes me angry but that's another post..

 

[njallday]

Loads of times- I just ignored people because my mother's had some cancerous moles removed and my inner thoughts went: Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope. NO knives for me, thank you. And no wrinkles. Lather on that sunscreen baby! I do tan incidentally (due to my Italian side). I try to avoid it as much as I can, and I already have a few moles I'm cautious about due to location and size.

I do know about 'dark shaming' (I suppose if you want to call it that- there is a name for it I'm sure) that exists in places in East Asia (particularly Japan/South Korea and India). There was something going around last year that Miss New York (Nina Davuluri- She went on to win Miss America 2013. She's Indian-American) would NEVER have won Miss India because she was 'too dark.' The amount of lightening creams they sell in those countries is astronomical.

just got all of mine removed as a result of a high school era-tanning addiction. one was, in fact, basal cell carcinoma. they got it all, but still. no 24 year old should be having those kinds of growths. and i probably wouldn't have had them if i stayed out of tanning beds when i was younger.


also, there are way too many chemicals in spray tan for that to be safe... but i digress. #paleforlife

 

[12stepCheermom]

just got all of mine removed as a result of a high school era-tanning addiction. one was, in fact, basal cell carcinoma. they got it all, but still. no 24 year old should be having those kinds of growths. and i probably wouldn't have had them if i stayed out of tanning beds when i was younger.


also, there are way too many chemicals in spray tan for that to be safe... but i digress. #paleforlife

Cp14 already had two taken off her back a year ago. Got it all but needless to say if that's already on the radar any color on my little Casper is coming from a sprayer. A tanning bed to me is as short-sighted as choosing to smoke. The health risks are real (already buried a friend at 47) and I'm not dying to be tan.


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[njallday]

Cp14 already had two taken off her back a year ago. Got it all but needless to say if that's already on the radar any color on my little Casper is coming from a sprayer. A tanning bed to me is as short-sighted as choosing to smoke. The health risks are real (already buried a friend at 47) and I'm not dying to be tan.


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i think what most surprised me is that i don't burn. yes, i am caucasian and without sunlight i am pale. but pale for me is a yellow color and the second i hit sunlight i turn olive. the spot found to be cancerous on me started out as a birthmark i have had my entire life and in the last month it just morphed into a new shape and turned black. i also had to have one on my tush removed, which can be 100% attributed to tanning beds because my butt has not seen the light of day. there is not a reason good enough anyone, especially anyone under 21, needs to go in a tanning bed.

i wholeheartedly agree with you that in comparison, spray tanning is the way to go. if you have to tan. i would just rather be pale. the chemicals in sunscreen cause cancer (ironic) and i don't feel comfortable with the amount of chemicals in the spray tan concoctions, so i wouldn't subject my skin to that, either. i've just learned to embrace my paleness.

 

[UCFKnights07]

i dont tan, i just burn. i think its quite pathetic if coaches pressure kids to tan, or even team mates peer pressuring others that they're not as tan as them... im all for fake tanner lotion, or spray tan. but anything other then that, i think is sending a horrible message to kids in general.

 

[AliciaM]

I don't go to tanning beds anymore but I do get spray tans sometimes. I'm mixed though and if I'm outside, even with sunscreen, I still get a tan since I'm olive toned/mixed anyway.


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[Cheerluv34]

I never have, never will go tanning, whether it is by the sun or in a tanning bed. I have tons of moles all over my body and the risk isn't worth it. I wear sunscreen every day because if I don't, I will burn soooo badly :P

 

[Official OWECheer]

Oh....well I'm black....so I don't really notice pale or not pale. Tanning wasn't big when I was cheering....or if it was I was left out of the conversation because I need not apply.

Actually I think they called it laying out and sometimes they'd be like "Erin do you want to lay out" and I was like "no"

Although colorism does exist in black culture....




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...The opposite way around.

 

[cheernerd5678]

Cp14 already had two taken off her back a year ago. Got it all but needless to say if that's already on the radar any color on my little Casper is coming from a sprayer. A tanning bed to me is as short-sighted as choosing to smoke. The health risks are real (already buried a friend at 47) and I'm not dying to be tan.


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I tell my mom about all the people I know who go to tanning beds or lay out w/o sunscreen to get tan. She always says "at this point, I'd rather everyone just get a spray tan even if they're orange." Which is funny bc she hated spray tans when she first saw people getting them for cheer.
I wear sunscreen any time I'm at the pool or outside for a long time, but even with reapplying every hour and a half I still get super tan super fast. As in, I was at the pool for 4 hours over the Fourth of July and when I came back everyone was like "YOURE SO TAN what did you do lay out all week?"
I absolutely can't stand when my friends tell me they don't wear sunscreen bc they're pale and want to be tan, or they go to the tanning bed every other day to get ready for summer. I'm like "have fun with your skin cancer.... But hey at least you were tan for your senior pics!" I had a girl (who looked like a lobster at the time) tell me she doesn't believe in sunscreen... Okay, do you believe in cancer? Because ITS REAL.


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[Official OWECheer]

I tell my mom about all the people I know who go to tanning beds or lay out w/o sunscreen to get tan. She always says "at this point, I'd rather everyone just get a spray tan even if they're orange." Which is funny bc she hated spray tans when she first saw people getting them for cheer.
I wear sunscreen any time I'm at the pool or outside for a long time, but even with reapplying every hour and a half I still get super tan super fast. As in, I was at the pool for 4 hours over the Fourth of July and when I came back everyone was like "YOURE SO TAN what did you do lay out all week?"
I absolutely can't stand when my friends tell me they don't wear sunscreen bc they're pale and want to be tan, or they go to the tanning bed every other day to get ready for summer. I'm like "have fun with your skin cancer.... But hey at least you were tan for your senior pics!" I had a girl (who looked like a lobster at the time) tell me she doesn't believe in sunscreen... Okay, do you believe in cancer? Because ITS REAL.


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I agree, the time you spend finding your perfect spray tan shade is not a waste, you're better off doing that than causing irreversible damage to your skin cells.

Lol does anyone remember the episode of Toddlers and Tiaras with that little girl that wanted to be brown like Beyonce? She was so cute but I felt bad that she didn't like her skin color at such a young age.