I’m totally out of fashion, and if it means I have to dye myself orange, I’ll stay that way.
I’ve noticed in my recent travels around the country up-and-down the DirecTV guide and to Target, women (and boys) are now dying themselves orange.
I just. Don’t. Get it.
Not one stinkin bit.
Really? You wanna take your healthy skin - black, white, pale, olive, etc - and turn it orange. By FRYING it?
Even if it’s tan-in-a-can, it looks weird.
The first person I recall noticing having dayglo orange skin was Charlize Theron at the Oscars in’04. She was actually shiny. Pssst… I don’t think they dayglo orange greased up look is healthy. If my skin were orange and as shiny as a greased up Butterball, I’d be be rushed to my gynecologist dermatologist.
Not only is this odd practice stupid, but potentially dangerous. Hell, not potentially - it is dangerous. There are tanning salons popping up in every shopping center around Pleasantville urging the tweens to get their tan on. In the next 20-30 years, I can envision Dermatologist’s offices replacing the tanning salons.
I feel like I’m sitting up on my high horse with my clear pale skin, but seeing this trend of orange day-glo shiny skin is so out of my element, I need some guidance.
It is super frightening and very tacky and tasteless. Not that anyone asked me, oh wait
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I’m a Celtic kid. That means auburn hair, white skin and freckles. I don’t tan, I get pinkish toned and look like I’ve run through a cinnamon shower.
Those pics of the sooo obviously ’self tanner’holics’ crack me up.
I saw so many leathery women in Vegas it was icky. I’m all about the 50 SPF for me and 70 for the kids! I will not look like a purse when I’m 50 thankyouverymuch
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WHAT? You don’t want to be an Oompa Loompa?
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Ha…I thought those two guys in the second picture were mannequins for a minute. That’s just wrong on so many levels.
That being said, I’ve done my fair share of excessive tanning (among many things) in the past, but now my (and The Who, I guess) motto is, “too much of anything, is too much for me.”
But for those people and celebs, “too much” ain’t in their vocabularies.
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I dont tan. I’m already dark. Orange glo?? Not for me.
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I don’t tan anymore. When I was a kid (lo, those many years ago) I used to get brown as a nut. But after a major sunburn almost got me court-martialed (sp?) I got used to staying covered when in the sun. Now, my legs are SO WHITE, my wife (Mexican-Irish) collapses in laughter when she sees me naked. And if she doesn’t cut that out, she may see me naked far less often - because no man likes to be laughed at when he’s naked. I’m just sayin’.
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You’re right on there, Mama. This gal is cheesy white and LUHVIN it!
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The orange is annoying but I find the ‘leather look’ so much worse!
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Yeah, I’ve never understood the world’s fascination with tanning…and I certainly don’t get the orange spray on tan crap.
All I can say is people are idiots. It will eventually come around to bite them in their asses.
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I am milky white with red hair and couldn’t catch a tan if someone through it to me and proud of it. I wear 50spf to avoid looking like a leather wallet when I get older.
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Ha. I saw an orange momma at the pool today. She clashed with her green bikini. What a sight!
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As much as I would love to have darker skin, I try to stay out of the tanning beds and away from the orange sauce. It’s a lot of work and makes you itchy anyhow.
Not to mention, not so great for me.
Orange ppl look funny.
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seriously.. i laughed out loud when i saw those two kids.. that is just terrible.. I prefer white and pasty.. getting tan takes too much work and I will never ever use a fake tanner..
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I rawk a mean Farmer tan.
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As someone who had her first skin cancer at 18 (basal cell carcinoma) and a melinoma at 29, I’m with you on the pale is the way to go… Not only that, but I preach the 30+ sunscreen thing, too. It may look “healthy” now to be all tan, but in 20 years, I’ll look the same age as some of the 18 year-olds who tanning bed it.
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