DragonMornir
Guildmember
Dr. Gregory House: You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking.[x=snowy_gem]
Posts: 2,116
|
Post by DragonMornir on Dec 6, 2006 21:56:14 GMT 11
So, when you venture out into the sun ( sorry for our Nthern Hemisphere members) this summer, what happens to your skin??? Please post if you are particularly fair or have olive skin. Just a curiousity poll!!!
|
|
Tanya
Gypsy
Ain't she pretty?[x=silver_pegasus]
Posts: 485
|
Post by Tanya on Dec 6, 2006 21:58:51 GMT 11
Considering I'm albino, the fact that I only burn, kinda inevitable. No melanin
|
|
Wh|te Fyre
Guildmember
[x=Naget_Innle]
Posts: 1,938
|
Post by Wh|te Fyre on Dec 6, 2006 21:59:23 GMT 11
I burn and tan, not freckle
yay! i inspired this pole! *claps*
|
|
|
|
Post by Dark One on Dec 6, 2006 22:01:06 GMT 11
Parts of me burn, though my arms and face are always in the sun, so they go brown before the rest of me
|
|
Emma-Jayde
Gypsy
The devil made me do it!
Posts: 32
|
Post by Emma-Jayde on Dec 6, 2006 22:01:09 GMT 11
I freckle and burn, yay.  I go like this --->  What's quite depressing is that my boyfriend (who lives in Belgium) tans more than me  We went to the beach while he was here, the next day he was all brown and I was like  that is SO not fair! |
|
Lucy
Guildmember
[x=chunkymonkey24]
Posts: 1,241
|
Post by Lucy on Dec 6, 2006 22:31:01 GMT 11
Burn and then tan. Would probaby just tan if I managed to control my excitement that the sun was out and didn't spend every second gallavanting about under it just incase we don't see it for the rest of the year ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Hannai on Dec 6, 2006 23:23:12 GMT 11
Never burn- Have my Dads skin
Mum fries like a chicken at KFC
My brother and I tend to go a little orange at the start of the season and then brown when we get a bit more exposure
|
|
|
|
Post by Dark One on Dec 7, 2006 2:32:07 GMT 11
Burn and then tan. Would probaby just tan if I managed to control my excitement that the sun was out and didn't spend every second gallavanting about under it just incase we don't see it for the rest of the year ;D PMSL! I now have a mental image of you rushing outside every time the sun shows its face  |
|
|
|
Post by Cat-Eyes on Dec 7, 2006 11:55:42 GMT 11
I freckle and burn. You know how most people burn and then go a kind of tanned look? Not me. I'm white - red - white. I get a lot of freckles though, and from last weekend on a camp my arms are already taking on their increased freckle quota. On a holiday in QLD my face ran out of places to freckle I got freckles on my lips.
Oh yeah, and I have fair skin. I'm so jealous, my english cousins have gorgeous olive skin, and I, the Australian, have completely white.
Oush, Tanya, you must have to use so much sunscreen.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rilla on Dec 7, 2006 12:06:15 GMT 11
I bun and tan, though I've actually never had bad sunburn... I just go slightly pink, and then slightly brown  Not much change to what I am normally, really... (But then, I tend to spend summer in nice air-conditioned rooms, avoiding the sun as much as possible... I don't like summer ) |
|
|
|
Post by Cat-Eyes on Dec 7, 2006 12:43:19 GMT 11
You've never had bad sunburn?! *hates you*
|
|
|
|
Post by Dameon on Dec 7, 2006 12:49:17 GMT 11
I used to love summer. Not so much now...
I put "something else", because while I do burn, apparently that's not all the sun can do to me.
So, just a reminder to you all to wear suncream, hats and the like! Sunburn, freckles, tans... they're ALL bad.
|
|
|
|
Post by Hannai on Dec 7, 2006 16:18:06 GMT 11
Ive never had bad sunburn either... actually i cant ever remember being sunburnt at all
|
|
Lina
Gypsy
Beastspeaker
Posts: 452
|
Post by Lina on Dec 7, 2006 20:51:33 GMT 11
Lol I'm in with Hannai and Rilla - I've never been seriously sunburnt - though one time I reckon I came close I generally tan I don't think I freckle that much... I haven't really noticed, but I tend to be careful in the sun in any case. Woo I love the beach  |
|
|
|
Post by Dark One on Dec 7, 2006 20:54:34 GMT 11
I don't usualy burn, as i am careful.
I have had sunstroke once tho. I was climbing a mountain in 40deg heat, and it was too windy to wear a hat
|
|
|
|
Post by Kaylan-R on Dec 8, 2006 9:41:17 GMT 11
I freckle and burn....ahh. I don't tan..not at all. I have tried it and ended up with pretty bad sunstroke and blisters on my nose. It's wierd. I've got really pale skin...like really white legs and stomach - REALLY WHITE - yet i've got light freckles on my face and freckles on my arms.
And Tanya - ALBINO??? wow I love you girl! I've allways wanted to be albino - let's trade places!
|
|
Tanya
Gypsy
Ain't she pretty?[x=silver_pegasus]
Posts: 485
|
Post by Tanya on Dec 8, 2006 9:56:42 GMT 11
Oush, Tanya, you must have to use so much sunscreen. *nods* yup lots. Especially at this time of year. As a matter of fact I'm about to go to work, s I better put some on in case they make me go outside. Mostly I just try to avoid the outdoors. IAnd Tanya - ALBINO??? wow I love you girl! I've allways wanted to be albino - let's trade places! Happily. |
|
|
|
Post by Kaylan-R on Dec 8, 2006 10:03:20 GMT 11
lol I see where you're comming from, and I reckon it would be so hard to go outside and risk practically dying from the sun, though I just reckon it would be so awsome
Maybe that's just me
|
|
DragonMornir
Guildmember
Dr. Gregory House: You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking.[x=snowy_gem]
Posts: 2,116
|
Post by DragonMornir on Dec 8, 2006 11:25:06 GMT 11
I should prolly comment on my own poll huh??? I burn and freckle, and vvvvvv occasionally tan, but whatever tan that occurs is usally gone because i peel.... Most of my body is pasty white, and all my friends have more natural skin colour than me. If im out in the sun for a smidge of time, i get hundreds of little freckles on my face. no where else freckles like that, it just burns. My nose always gets burnt in the sun nomatter what lol! My mother is like Cat, red and white..... she calls it English Rose colouring My Dad,has more melanin and, well he grew up on a farm and ended up with a skin cancer a few years ago, on his forehead from first 15yrs of life without sunscreen and hats..... and he tans...... So my bro has more dads skin and i have more mums...... which sucks..... *pouts* |
|
|
|
Post by Dragon on Dec 8, 2006 14:39:50 GMT 11
I freckle and burn. I have slight colour on my arms and face because i have been burnt so many times, but i dont class it as a tan. I am quite pail and burn really easily, most often its when i'm helping dad on the farm that i get burnt. I have been badly burnt several times, actually i still have noticeable pigmentation on my upper chest area from a bad burn i got at a relatives funeral last December.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ness on Dec 8, 2006 15:33:18 GMT 11
ill tan from being in the sun with sunblock but not too much... if i dont put sunblock on, i fry, peel and then tan
a week before my formal my family went to the zoo, i thought it would be ok becuase it was mostly a cloudy day. I now have a collar of tan around my neck that suddenly turns into white skin because of the sunburn i got. and to make it worse... my shoulders and the very top of my arms are white and then suddenly im tan >.< lol
|
|
Tanya
Gypsy
Ain't she pretty?[x=silver_pegasus]
Posts: 485
|
Post by Tanya on Dec 8, 2006 19:55:57 GMT 11
Ness you should see the UV rating at the moment. I'm personally not surprised you got burnt on a cloudy day. Is it all better now? At the child care centre where I work we use the UV rating to decide when we can go outside etc. back in winter it was barely passing 3 which is the lowest level. Now even on cloudy days it's up in "extreme" (the highest level) for around 4 hours of the day. Where we are anyways. Personally I'm avoiding outside and the sun like the plague. Edited cos I found the website we use.. This is the Uv index forcast for tomorrow in Katoomba where I am. In winter it mostly didn't even pass the green, and if it did it was for a very short period of the day. Look at it now: www.bom.gov.au/products/UV/Katoomba_NSW.shtmlI'm wondering what it's going to be like as summer progresses. |
|
|
|
Post by Arien on Dec 10, 2006 1:43:48 GMT 11
I'm a bit random  I don't burn too much on my arms and legs, and I go pretty brown if I go out in the sun. I do however burn on my face and I get freckles across my nose. And my face doesn't seem to me to go as brown as the rest of me..but maybe it's just me that thinks that..And I have an olive skin tone.
|
|
MajiKat
Guildmember
Signs of the Sacrifice[x=Mysterikat]
Posts: 1,202
|
Post by MajiKat on Dec 10, 2006 14:47:06 GMT 11
well, i'm rather fair, but i think that comes more from lack of sun than my skin type (i avoid the sun - have seen too many sun spots burnt off my dad and nan to want to hang out in it).
however, when i do go in the sun....the other day i coped a bad burn. i just didn't think about it. i was gardening, so my back, shoulders and lower back got burnt - badly! i drowned my skin in moisturising cream, so i have avoided peeling and now i am tanned.
basically, i tan after a burn (if i forget to cover up) or just tan with sunscreen. I freckle a bit on my arms, but i have heaps of moles and freckels from when i was a kid that i keep a very close eye on, and i go and have them checked out at least once a year, or more, depending on how much sun i have got. and i never expose my face to the sun on purpose! Never. very bad for your skin and your health!
At the moment i have tanned arms, shoulders, bits of my back and chest - all just from brief walks through the sunny bits at school! i wear suncreen on my face everyday, even when it is cloudy.
i still have white legs though - i look a bit mismatched at the moment, but who cares?
i used to do the whole tanning thing when i was younger, but now i have decided my health is much more important than a 'glow'.
|
|
scruffy
Gypsy
hehehe... Sheepies... :)[x=drscruffy]
Posts: 249
|
Post by scruffy on Dec 10, 2006 16:04:02 GMT 11
I burn... I don't tan at all, but I do "mole". I burn, and then, once the burn fades and inevitably, I'm left with moles, not freckles. I get them checked out twice a year - and so far, thank "diety of your choice", none of them are sinister. I love hats, and you rarely find me outdoors without one. And the long sleeved cover-up shirt. A couple of times when I was younger I got really, really, really badly burnt and I'm terrified now of the sun. I'm trying to singled-handedly bring in the "pasty pale" look  |
|
Not much change to what I am normally, really...
I don't burn too much on my arms and legs, and I go pretty brown if I go out in the sun. I do however burn on my face and I get freckles across my nose. And my face doesn't seem to me to go as brown as the rest of me..but maybe it's just me that thinks that..And I have an olive skin tone.
