Over the centuries fashionable has favoured tanned or untanned bodies.
In England when most worked in the fields under the sun pale was fashionable. Women would take arsenic to pale their skin. Not good for the health!
As most people moved to factor jobs away from the sun it became fashionable to show you had time to lay in the sun and gain a tan. Now we know this can lead to skin cancer, is it worth the risk?
It appears that the colour of the skin is away of saying look how well of I am, how attractive I am. Is it still true?
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To tan or not to tan?
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So am I but some people will risk heath for looks. On the other hand if it is not worth the risk (ie. people don not care) then why take the risk? Poison or skin cancer.
I take it your vote would be do not mind?
If I had voted, I would have said I prever non tanned skin.
Why?
Because tomorrow I go and have a suspicious looking mole removed from my shoulder that needs testing
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So am I but some people will risk heath for looks. On the other hand if it is not worth the risk (ie. people don not care) then why take the risk? Poison or skin cancer.
I take it your vote would be do not mind?
If I had voted, I would have said I prever non tanned skin.
Why?
Because tomorrow I go and have a suspicious looking mole removed from my shoulder that needs testing
Sorry, I have big feet don't I?
Well these days I stay out of the sun as such.....
Last year I had skin cancer, one called in situ and the other much more serious in fact as aggressive as it gets! Yes I was one of those people who always thought it only happens in Australia and to someone else... not me surely. Now its 5 years of fingers crossed and 3 monthly checks not to mention a couple of ops!
I still go away still have hols but take so much more care of my skin now lol... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn and practically no chance of Cancer!
Mike
Last year I had skin cancer, one called in situ and the other much more serious in fact as aggressive as it gets! Yes I was one of those people who always thought it only happens in Australia and to someone else... not me surely. Now its 5 years of fingers crossed and 3 monthly checks not to mention a couple of ops!
I still go away still have hols but take so much more care of my skin now lol... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn and practically no chance of Cancer!
Mike
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... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn . . .
Mike
Serious question.
Is that true ?
When I was younger and, believe it or not, even more vain :grin: ..........
I can remember that the stuff was called sun tanlotion - to help you get a tan.
In fact, Mk I used to mix her own from some sort of cooking oil, vinegar and summat else.
Now it's called sun blockand such - so I was thinking it was designed to stop you getting a tan.
That's why I used so little of it in Thailand
I did burn, but then went a semi decent sort of colour.
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... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn . . .
Mike
Serious question.
Is that true ?
When I was younger and, believe it or not, even more vain :grin: ..........
I can remember that the stuff was called sun tanlotion - to help you get a tan.
In fact, Mk I used to mix her own from some sort of cooking oil, vinegar and summat else.
Now it's called sun blockand such - so I was thinking it was designed to stop you getting a tan.
That's why I used so little of it in Thailand
I did burn, but then went a semi decent sort of colour.
Here
Is a good explanation of how you get a sun tan, and how sun screen works.
Les x
I never go out in the sun without at least factor 25 as I've got such pale skin and burn easily. I was the only one who came back from the Caribbean the same colour I went ! Still, I'd rather be pale than take the risk. A tanned body in a man might be nice to look at but it's not on my list of preferences.
for Mike, hope you're ok hunni, fingers crossed. and 
assionkiss: for Dawn, good luck to you too hunni. I had a mole removed from my leg a few years ago that, thankfully, was caught in time so I know what you're going through hun. 
for Mike, hope you're ok hunni, fingers crossed. and assionkiss: for Dawn, good luck to you too hunni. I had a mole removed from my leg a few years ago that, thankfully, was caught in time so I know what you're going through hun. 
Quote by dambuster
... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn . . .
Mike
Serious question.
Is that true ?
When I was younger and, believe it or not, even more vain :grin: ..........
I can remember that the stuff was called sun tanlotion - to help you get a tan.
In fact, Mk I used to mix her own from some sort of cooking oil, vinegar and summat else.
Now it's called sun blockand such - so I was thinking it was designed to stop you getting a tan.
That's why I used so little of it in Thailand
I did burn, but then went a semi decent sort of colour.
Sun block, factor 40 means you need 40 min. to get the same effect as no sun block in 1 min. factor 60, 60 min for 1 min.
Sun lotion was to treat the side effects of sun burn, skin falling off ect.
Quote by dambuster
... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn . . .
Mike
Serious question.
Is that true ?
When I was younger and, believe it or not, even more vain :grin: ..........
I can remember that the stuff was called sun tanlotion - to help you get a tan.
In fact, Mk I used to mix her own from some sort of cooking oil, vinegar and summat else.
Now it's called sun blockand such - so I was thinking it was designed to stop you getting a tan.
That's why I used so little of it in Thailand
I did burn, but then went a semi decent sort of colour.
Well either the lotion I use is crap or its a mirage lol.... We go away a couple of times a year and when we do its somewhere hot... index 10+ so I shower first thing apply a good coat of waterproof factor 60 and let it settle into skin over breakfast etc.. by the time we go out, sea, pool or sightseeing etc I just don't even go red anymore.. just seem to tan slowly and evenly over a week or so...... I never sit in the sun either always under a brolly or tree lol!
Ju on the other hand only has to look at the sun and she goes brown but she is naturally darker skinned still uses a good factor though for same reasons I do... Its a scary thing being told you HAVE cancer once let alone twice within months... skin cancer can kill no doubts about it. No need to be paranoid but be sensible about it I say!!
As for preference on colour for us.... we really don't care so long as skin is nice!
Skin is the biggest organ of your body!!
Mike
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Well either the lotion I use is crap or its a mirage lol.... We go away a couple of times a year and when we do its somewhere hot... index 10+ so I shower first thing apply a good coat of waterproof factor 60 and let it settle into skin over breakfast etc.. by the time we go out, sea, pool or sightseeing etc I just don't even go red anymore.. just seem to tan slowly and evenly over a week or so...... I never sit in the sun either always under a brolly or tree lol!
Ju on the other hand only has to look at the sun and she goes brown but she is naturally darker skinned still uses a good factor though for same reasons I do... Its a scary thing being told you HAVE cancer once let alone twice within months... skin cancer can kill no doubts about it. No need to be paranoid but be sensible about it I say!!
As for preference on colour for us.... we really don't care so long as skin is nice!
Skin is the biggest organ of your body!!
Mike
From being a child I had the importance of wearing a high factor sun tan lotion drummed into me. As an adult I've always worn high factor lotion and re-applied regularly. I still always found that areas where my clothes meet bare skin burned slightly as the clothes rubbed the suntan lotion off.
A couple of years ago I discovered the apply once a day, type of lotion (I use p20 but there are other brands) and it is fantastic. It isn't an excuse to lie and baste all day, but it does mean you can apply it in the morning then completley forget about it, no more carrying around bottles of lotion all day.
Les x
Quote by mdr2000
... Factor 60 believe it or not and you still get a nice colour but never any burn . . .
Mike
Serious question.
Is that true ?
When I was younger and, believe it or not, even more vain :grin: ..........
I can remember that the stuff was called sun tanlotion - to help you get a tan.
In fact, Mk I used to mix her own from some sort of cooking oil, vinegar and summat else.
Now it's called sun blockand such - so I was thinking it was designed to stop you getting a tan.
That's why I used so little of it in Thailand
I did burn, but then went a semi decent sort of colour.
Well either the lotion I use is crap or its a mirage lol.... We go away a couple of times a year and when we do its somewhere hot... index 10+ so I shower first thing apply a good coat of waterproof factor 60 and let it settle into skin over breakfast etc.. by the time we go out, sea, pool or sightseeing etc I just don't even go red anymore.. just seem to tan slowly and evenly over a week or so...... I never sit in the sun either always under a brolly or tree lol!
Ju on the other hand only has to look at the sun and she goes brown but she is naturally darker skinned still uses a good factor though for same reasons I do... Its a scary thing being told you HAVE cancer once let alone twice within months... skin cancer can kill no doubts about it. No need to be paranoid but be sensible about it I say!!
As for preference on colour for us.... we really don't care so long as skin is nice!
Skin is the biggest organ of your body!!
Mike
Do remember that sun reflected off the sand can still burn, and water does not filter the sun. Well not if you are just swimming or sat by the pool bar., but it does cool you. This means that you may not know how much damage is done en til later.
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And another one guys.........
Don't forget the bottom of your feet!! A third of UK skin cancer is on the feet as we don't factor them.. soles that is, and then lie in the sun feet up!
Could be more of an issue with some swingers!!!
Just a thought lol.
Mike xx
and the eyes, yes high light levels can give you cataracs.
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And another one guys.........
Don't forget the bottom of your feet!! A third of UK skin cancer is on the feet as we don't factor them.. soles that is, and then lie in the sun feet up!
Could be more of an issue with some swingers!!!
Just a thought lol.
Mike xx
and the eyes, yes high light levels can give you cataracs.
Is that Sunnies for the feet or Cream for the eyes lol.......
Quote by mdr2000
And another one guys.........
Don't forget the bottom of your feet!! A third of UK skin cancer is on the feet as we don't factor them.. soles that is, and then lie in the sun feet up!
Could be more of an issue with some swingers!!!
Just a thought lol.
Mike xx
and the eyes, yes high light levels can give you cataracs.
Is that Sunnies for the feet or Cream for the eyes lol.......
Sun glasses for eyes, cream for feet and anyother exposed skin. :embarrased2: