Warning - Take care in the sun.

[lazyitus]

My younger sister has recently returned from a holiday in Southern Spain.

As she was keen to get a tan to show off back home, she decided not to use much suncream in the hope that it would make her look good.

It's backfired a little.

She is only 13 and she's come home with what can only be described as dark, aged skin.

Please let this be a warning to anybody who thinks sunbathing is good for them.

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[Fallon]

Eeeek! What must the FACE look like?!!!!

[lunarscope]

Is that ET's Mum ?

[yertis]

I virtually grew up on Studland beach in Dorset and you'd be amazed at how many people there are like that, wandering around knacker-naked. Kills them in the end, quite often.

[silversun]

The skin on my auntie's legs are like leather because she has always sat in the sun with no sun cream. She lives in South Africa so it's not like it's a cool climate. Ugh.

[FourWheelDrift]

Looks like the same leather that's in the Morgan Aeromax.

[groucho]

I don't know one person in the building trade that wears suncream, myself included. I myself don't expose my body for that long though, my legs have never seen the sun.

[Sponge Bob]

From the looks of the kids face - he probably thought it was just chocolate spread...

...he found out the hard way that it wasn't!!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Seriously bad news. Both myself and Mrs.NCoT have very fair skin and she once got very badly burned in Austria. I have got burned a few times. As a kid in Greece a couple of times, and more recently in Tenerife. I put loads of sun cream on on the beach, then went in the sea later which washed it off. Fell asleep afterwards only for about half an hour, and late in the day (4.30ish) - but still enough to burn a handprint onto my chest and make sleeping very difficult for the rest of the holiday. To this day I have little "bobbles" on my chest that weren't there before .

And like an idiot I got burned at the Bromley Pageant on Sunday. Was very dull in the morning and only brightened up later in the day. Enough to give me panda eyes from my sunnys and very red face/arms/legs. Mostly okay now apart from a very sore V on my chest (hurts to have the seatbelt on ) and the sides of my neck on both sides.

You can get burned in this country very easily, and when I am on the ball I slap on the factor 30. I am quite happy to come back from holiday as white as a very white thing.

[Twincam16]

I don't get the appeal of sunbathing at all TBH - it just strikes me as an uncomfortable way of trying to have a rest and look good. I'm always amazed by people who go to foreign countries and say 'ooh, they look so good, I want to look like that by the end of the week', but they don't - they look boiled and peeling. The reason why the inhabitants have dark skin is because they live there! - they don't have intensive blasts of sun for the sake of it, they just exist alongside it.

I've found the best way to enjoy the sun is actually act like it's not there. Go out, relax, see the sights, swim in the sea - whatever, just don't go out sunbathing to try and get a tan, you're better off going to a tanning centre (really).

And in the words of Baz Luhrmann - 'wear sunscreen'. Unless your skin is suited to the particular climate, you need to protect yourself.

[puggit]

[Twincam16]

Matthew-TMM said:

Twincam16 said: I don't get the appeal of sunbathing at all TBH - it just strikes me as an uncomfortable way of trying to have a rest and look good. I'm always amazed by people who go to foreign countries and say 'ooh, they look so good, I want to look like that by the end of the week', but they don't - they look boiled and peeling. The reason why the inhabitants have dark skin is because they live there! - they don't have intensive blasts of sun for the sake of it, they just exist alongside it. I've found the best way to enjoy the sun is actually act like it's not there. Go out, relax, see the sights, swim in the sea - whatever, just don't go out sunbathing to try and get a tan, you're better off going to a tanning centre (really). And in the words of Baz Luhrmann - 'wear sunscreen'. Unless your skin is suited to the particular climate, you need to protect yourself. Anyway, the inhabitants don't lounge around in the sun, and generally stay indoors/in the shade for the hottest part of the day, and when they are in the sun, they are often working.

Precisely

'Mad dogs and Englishman go out in the midday sun'

[apache]

We were on the beach in Ascension, English Bay I think, there were a few drunken squaddies mucking about and one had crashed out on the sand, face down, legs spreadeagled, with one bollock hanging out. Never did see him again

[groucho]

I could never understand how people can lay on their backs in the sun. When I try it, it blinds me. My eyelids must be too thin.

[Mrs Trackside]

apache said:

We were on the beach in Ascension, English Bay I think, there were a few drunken squaddies mucking about and one had crashed out on the sand, face down, legs spreadeagled, with one bollock hanging out. Never did see him again

Would you have recognised him from his bollock then?

[apache]

groucho said:

I could never understand how people can lay on their backs in the sun. When I try it, it blinds me. My eyelids must be too thin.

havn't been to specsavers then?

[groucho]

No specsavers. You do see people laying on their backs though, without sunglasses, as they would cause rings around the eyes. How do they do it without going blind.

[Mr Whippy]

Yikes, she's a tad weathered.

Dave

[seafarer]

We used to spot tourists who had burnt themselves pink. Apparently, though people know about sunscreen, they don't realize that you have to re-apply, and the sunlight is much more intense the closer to the equator you are. Plus, like any kind of burn, it takes time before you see how severe the damage is. If you are just a little pink in the sun, and decide to go inside, later that day you'll be red as a lobster.


An ex-boyfriend (blond hair, blue eyes) used to mow the lawn without his shirt on and get a bit burnt on a regular basis. Then his dad had a big skin cancer removed his FACE. Ex-boyfriend continued to mow the lawn with no shirt on. You'd think cancer-farm would have learned from his dad's near-deadly experience and wear a shirt. But, no, applying the greasy sunscreen is apparently more tedious than death. sigh.

[wedg1e]

Phwoar! She's fit, got a number?



Ah, thirteen, I see.... best wait a year or two