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Wait...not everyone says they're "laying out" when talking about tanning?
Wait...not everyone says they're "laying out" when talking about tanning?
My senior year of high school I was the only black girl in our first week house (beach week)....and the other girls would literally lay on the beach from 9am-7pm....like it was their job. Mean while I'd come out at 9am and have to be in by 9:23. I literally cannot be in the sun. If I think about going In the sun I get a shade darker. I buy SPF 90 even though I know after spf30 it doesn't even matter. White girls would kill for my tanning skills (although since it's all about skin pigment my tanning skills wouldn't exist if I were white ).
I don't even have the attention span for "laying out ". I don't know how y'all do it
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You and me both girl! Oh actually you, me and Kristenthegreat! I was 29 when first diagnosed w/a squamous cell carcinoma. Not as bad as a melanoma, but def much worse than a basal cell. I love being pale. I have ivory skin and hardly any wrinkles and I'm 37. There are so many young cheerleaders I see who already have more wrinkles than me and they're 17-18!! You don't even want to know what age my daughter thought a coach from a our former gym was, knowing that I was 37. :oops: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
In high school, my friends would seriously hold their pre-homecoming tan arms up to mine and be like "I'm not dark enough."
Um, you're not getting anywhere close to my color. It's impossible (unless you want to end up the ER for sunburns.) lol.
My senior year of high school I was the only black girl in our first week house (beach week)....and the other girls would literally lay on the beach from 9am-7pm....like it was their job. Mean while I'd come out at 9am and have to be in by 9:23. I literally cannot be in the sun. If I think about going In the sun I get a shade darker. I buy SPF 90 even though I know after spf30 it doesn't even matter. White girls would kill for my tanning skills (although since it's all about skin pigment my tanning skills wouldn't exist if I were white ).
I don't even have the attention span for "laying out ". I don't know how y'all do it
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I and 99.9% of my friends grew up in apartment buildings. Getting to the beach meant a 2+ hour train ride to Brooklyn. Instead we had "tar beach" - the roof of the apartment buildings. Lounge chair, spray bottle of water, and Ban de Soleil Orange Gelee which at the time may have had SPF 2. That usually lasted about 30 minutes max because it got so ridiculously hot up there with all the black roofing absorbing the sun. Glory days. Now I'm all about "where is my SPF 55 for my face?" :cool:I'm the only white girl at my job. The girls I work with know NOTHING about tanning, cheerleading, or apparently the south. We have the most hilarious conversations. (and no one in Chicago goes to the pool ever, apparently? That's a suburb thing here, I guess)
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There are so many young cheerleaders I see who already have more wrinkles than me and they're 17.
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.
The orange is awful, but I'd rather see Oompa Loompas than girls using tanning beds and getting skin cancer!Could you imagine how odd and creepy it would look to see an entire team, no matter what their ethnicity, all be the same exact color of beige? Just picture it. Weeeeiirrd!!
I think the orange is hideous. If they have those terrible orange spray tans I am singing the Oompa Loompa song in my head when I see them.
Oompa Loompa doopity do....